Holistic Ballet

Specialties

Adult Ballet Classes and Workshops in London for beginner to advanced level, taught in a fun and supportive environment. Holistic Ballet uses pure ballet movements and synthesises them with principles of alignment, balance and core strength derived from Yoga, Pilates and functional anatomy.

History

Established in 2011.

Franziska Rosenzweig created Holistic Ballet drawing from her extensive experience as a professional ballerina, her studies of Pilates, Yoga and anatomy.

Her exposure to different styles of ballet training, e.g. Russian, French and American schools, and many years of working with amateur dancers lead her to formulate a training method that benefits students of «normal» physical abilities better than traditional ballet training might.

Meet the Business Owner

Franziska R.

Business Owner

Franziska created Holistic Ballet out of her more than 20 years experience as a professional ballet dancer and dance teacher. Born in Berlin, former East Germany, she began her ballet training aged 6, completed the eight years ballet education programme at the State Ballet School Berlin and graduated, at the top of her class, as a professional dancer in 1993. Her first contract was with the German State Opera Berlin (Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin) where she was cast in soloist roles from the beginning of her career and danced the principal role in The Nutcracker in the second year of being with the company. She left Berlin to join the newly founded Peter Schaufuss Ballet in Denmark.

In 1998, Franziska moved to London to become a freelance artist and gradually transitioned from being an active dancer to being a ballet teacher, training as a Gyrotonic and Pilates instructor at the same time.

Being asked by her teacher, Renato Paroni, to cover his classes for him was stepping stone into