Our Team
Meet our high qualified and super friendly teachers <3
Miss Nina
Nina Monteiro, our Principal Teacher, was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
At the age of six, she was introduced to ballet at the Grupo Cultural de Dança – Ilha, and fell in love. Whilst ballet was her passion, she also took lessons in Jazz, Tap and Hip Hop.
During her ten years at the GCDI, Miss Nina was chosen to perform in every show and frequently represented them at national and international festivals and competitions with huge successes in both technical and artistic performance.
In 2006, at the age of 20, the School Director Patricia Marques, invited Miss Nina to work as her rehearsal assistant and ballet teacher. It was as if ballet had defined her, but teaching had taught her to make a difference.
Miss Nina’s professional dance career began in Curitiba, Brazil, in 2007 at the Balé Teatro Guaíra, where she performed various classical and contemporary pieces such as The Nutcracker and Treze Gestos de um Corpo by Olga Roriz.
In 2009 Nina moved to Germany to work with Theater Nordhausen Ballett where she was able to co-create many of the leading roles she was given.
She then moved to England in 2011 which now feels like home. In 2013 Nina had the opportunity of returning to the stage as a guest artist with Koblenz Ballett in Germany, by invitation of Steffen Fuchs, director of the company. In this short contract, Miss Nina danced a role created for her and shared the stage with artists from all over the world.
Miss Nina has been fortunate to work as ballet tutor at a number of dance schools and studios in London before being presented with a beautiful opportunity: to lead her own dance school.
Lilliana Della Valle
Liliana Della Valle is a London based dance artist and freelance dance teacher. She graduated from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance with a BA(Hons) in Contemporary Dance and is continuing her movement research through a Specialist Diploma in Choreological Studies.
Liliana teaches creative contemporary dance at Traceworks Dance, Nina Monteiro Ballet School and previously at Rambert’s outreach and participation programme. Liliana also works as a ballet teacher at Vacani School of Dance and Canada Water Dance Studios. Throughout lockdown, she led her own online contemporary, choreography and
relaxation classes. Liliana’s own choreographic works have been performed at Bonnie Bird Theatre, Greenwich.
Kofi
Kofi began his dance education at the age of six in his hometown of London, studying ballet and tap dancing. After moving to Seattle, he continued his studies in tap dance. At sixteen, he began training under choreographer Josh Scribner in tap dancing. In 2016, he became a full member of Alchemy Tap Project and has been featured in two dances released online: “Stick To It” and “The Muse’s Dream.” Kofi also travels to various tap conventions and festivals around the world to learn from industry veterans and has taken classes with accomplished choreographers such as Savion Glover, Sarah Reich, and Ted Louis Levy. Additionally, he has participated in other professional shows, including the Seattle Theater Group’s 2018 Dance This performance directed by Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards and Derick Grant. For the past seven years, Kofi has focused on teaching the next generation of dancers and choreographing competitive dance pieces.
