The team

Faculty

Three generations devoted to dance.

Maribel Bover

Director · Classical ballet & jazz

Her working and artistic life has always been centred on the world of dance, continuing the path begun by her mother, Rosa Maria Viñals, who founded her own school in 1956 as a pupil of the master Joan Magriñà.

Her main training in classical dance was with the renowned master Joan Tena in Barcelona. Jazz dance technique at the Anna Maleras studio in Barcelona. Contemporary dance training with Ramón Oller at La Fàbrica (Barcelona). In 1975 she was the first to bring jazz dance to Girona.

Further training in classical ballet and jazz pedagogy at the Ramón Solé Dance Centre (Barcelona), the École de danse Rosella Hightower (Cannes), the Carmen Roche Dance Centre (Madrid) and the Bournonville Ballet Seminar (Biarritz). She regularly attends dance classes and courses in New York and London, and has been a guest at masterclasses at the Finnish National Opera (Helsinki) and with Elisabetta Terabust, director of the corps de ballet of La Scala in Milan.

Creator of the choreography for the film WakaWaka (1987, Kim Densalat). Trained in anatomy, physiology and dance pathologies at the University of Zaragoza. Limón technique (contemporary dance) and Simonson technique (Simonson Jazz Technique Certificate). She founded and directs the Companyia de dansa de Girona dance company, with musical support from La Locomotora Negra (1992).

Milestones

1975Brings jazz dance to Girona
1987Choreographs the film WakaWaka (Kim Densalat)
1992Founds the Companyia de dansa de Girona with La Locomotora Negra
1993The Catalan government recognises the school as an Authorised Educational Centre
1994Continuing Training Plan for all dance teachers in Catalonia at the Institut del Teatre — only nineteen places
2002Teacher for the University of Girona sports service activity programme
2010Panel of the Cultural Strategic Plan of Girona City Council
TodayArtistic direction and choreography of the annual show at the Municipal Theatre.

Guillem Bover

Classical ballet & jazz

At the age of three he took his first ballet steps at his mother's school. A graduate as an academic classical dancer of the Dance School of the Rome Opera House (directed by Paola Jorio). He combined dance with Education studies at the UNED.

His main teachers have been his mother, Maribel Bover, Rodolfo Castellanos and Pablo Moret, former dancers of the National Ballet of Cuba, from whom he has received a solid technical and artistic training.

A professional dancer in soloist roles at the Baths of Caracalla with the corps de ballet of the Rome Opera House (directed by Carla Fracci), the Zurich Ballet (Heinz Spoerli) and the Finnish National Ballet (Björn and Greve).

2010The Blue Bird — Teatro Massimo, Palermo (Luciano Cannito)
2010Romeo and Juliet on tour with Scottish Ballet (Ashley Page)
2011Ballet Víctor Ullate (Madrid)
2012Ángel Corella Ballet, on tour in the USA

Intensive artistic training courses with Elisabetta Terabust, director of the ballet company at La Scala in Milan. He currently continues his jazz dance training at the Pineapple Dance Studios in London and at the Broadway Dance Center, the Alvin Ailey School and Steps on Broadway in New York. Teacher for the University of Girona sports service activity programme.

Maria Rigat

Classical ballet & jazz

Maria started at the school when she was three years old and has danced in every show and event of the house ever since, performing soloist and leading roles.

Seeing her fine teaching and artistic gifts, Maribel invited her to join the team as a classical ballet and jazz teacher.

DegreeClassical dance — Centre Superior d'Arts Escèniques Carmen Roche, SCAENA (Madrid)
Further trainingClassical ballet with Víctor Ullate (Madrid) and the English National Ballet School (London)
AlsoA graduate in graphic design from the University of Barcelona

Guest & assistant faculty

Collaborations

Itzel Picó

Natàlia Merino