The English/Irish dancer and choreographer Esther Balfe graduated with a diploma from Ballet Rambert Contemporary dance program, West London in 1990. Since then, she has worked as a dancer and choreographer mainly in England, Ireland, Austria and Germany. In 1995 she co-founded the Tanztheater Wien, which later joined the Volksoper Wien in 1999 (until 2004) under Liz King as its new director. In 2005 Esther was invited to perform with Ballet Frankfurt before it changed to The Forsythe Company. Esther Balfe was a principal dancer of TFC, Frankfurt, from 2006–2012 and thereafter engaged as a guest artist until 2015, after which she took up her Professorship post at the Music and Art University of the City of Vienna in 2012. Esther has been a guest performer with Fabulous Beast/Teac Damsa and has worked in the recent years with Michael Keegan Dolan, Willi Dorner and Alexander Gottfarb. Together with her global performing schedule during this nine-year period, Esther was also engaged to give Masterclasses pertaining to the methodologies underlying the foundations of Forsythe's work. Her teaching was, invited to such institutions as the Brooklyn Academy of the Arts, New York; Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden; Theater am Turm, Frankfurt and the Melbourne Festival of the Arts, Australia.
07.05.2024
