Grey Araújo
(He/Him)
Co-founder, Dancer & Teacher
Grey graduated from Brazil's National Ballet School, Escola Estadual de Danças Maria Olenewa in Rio de Janeiro and was a professional dancer with multiple companies including Grupo Corpo, Cia El Paso de Dança, Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, Ballet Caracas in Venezuela, Ballet de la Província in Argentina and São Paulo Cia de Dança. Grey starred in the film "Into the Light" directed by Saulo Senra.
Grey has worked with renowned choreographers such as Richard Cragun, Natalia Makarova, Márcia Haydée, halal Achcar, Beatriz de Almeida, Tíndaro Silvano, amongst others.
Grey is currently a ballet teacher in various schools and ballet companies around Brazil including Focus Cia de Dança and Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro.
Denise Rezende
(She/Her)
Co-founder, teacher at the Port de Bouc Conservatory of Dance
Denise graduated from Escola Estadual de Danças Maria Olenewa in Rio de Janeiro, has the Diplôme d'état from the National Dance Institute in France and is a licensed teacher through the Escola Superior de Dança de Lisboa in Portugal.
During her time in Portugal, Denise danced with Portugal's premier ballet company, the Companhia Nacional de Bailado and Luís Damas Dance Company. She also taught at the Conservatory of Music and Dance of Coimbra as well as Orfeão de Leiria School.
Currently, Denise is a ballet teacher at the Conservatory Port de Bouc in Alès, France.
LUDMILA BIZALION
(She/Her)
Co-founder, dancer at the San Francisco Ballet
Ludmila studied at the Escola Estadual de Dança Maria Olenewa in Brazil, The Harid Conservatory (USA) & the San Francisco Ballet School (USA), where she was the first female student of the Trainee Program ever to join the ballet company in 2004.
Throughout her career, Ludmila has danced with world renowned ballet companies such as the San Francisco Ballet in the USA, The Royal Ballet of Flanders in Belgium, Les Grands Ballet Canadiens de Montréal in Canada and the Hong Kong Ballet, where she was the first Brazilian to ever join in China.
Ludmila has worked personally with William Forsythe, Cynthia Harvey, Nina Ananiashvili, Márcia Haydée, Justin Peck, Helgi Tomasson, John Neumeier, Yuri Possokov, Christopher Wheeldon, Liam Scarlett, amongst others.
Ludmila is currently a dancer with the San Francisco Ballet and a board member at Dancin Power, a NGO focused on bringing dance to hospitalized children in the United States.