Andrea Valábik

Andrea Valábik

Guest Ballet Master
She graduated from the Dance Conservatory in Bratislava and began her dance career at the National Theatre Ballet in Prague. After engagements with the Vanemuine Theatre ballet in Tartu, Estonia, and the Finnish National Ballet in Helsinki, she spent fifteen years with the Vienna State Ballet, where she had the chance to perform in ballet productions by some of the world's leading choreographers, such as Rudolf Nureyev, John Neumeier, Manuel Legris, John Cranko, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Vladimir Malakhov, George Balanchine, Hans van Manen, Jiří Kylián, William Forsythe, Michael Corder, Boris Eifman, and others. During her extensive dancing career, she was mentored by many exceptional teachers, not only as a dancer but also as a future ballet maestra.
 
In 2012, she graduated with a degree in dance pedagogy from Wolfsegg, Austria. Since then, she has worked as a ballet maestra at various ballet seminars in Slovakia, the Netherlands, the USA, Ecuador, and Sochi, Russia.
She has performed as a guest ballet maestra at the Vienna State Ballet, Vienna Volksoper, Baden Ballet, Mystic Ballet (USA), Finnish National Ballet, and since 2021, she has been collaborating as a guest ballet maestra with the Slovak National Theatre Ballet.