Studies Ballet in her mother’s dance center in Belgium with Daniel Lambo, ex-soloist of Maurice Béjart’s Ballets du XXe Siècle, she continues her formation at Rosella Hightower’s in Cannes. Discovers Jazz at age sixteen with Lynn McMurray, impassions herself for this technique and works with famous professors such as Jacques Alberka, Gianin Loringuett, Rick Odums and Bruce Taylor, Rheda, then in New York with Frank Hachett, Jojo Smith and Luigi. Teaches Jazz in Belgium, takes part in many shows as dancer and choreographer and creates a company with her best students. During all her years of teaching Marie-Christine prides herself to have communicated her passion for dance to her students, formed professors and prepared some for a professional career. She settles in Geneva in 1997 and creates Dance Area.
« Passionate and enthusiastic about all styles of dance—and committed to the pursuit of excellence, harmony, a strong work ethic, and integrity—I chose to create a dance school that is open to the world and in tune with the times. It is a multidisciplinary school, because dance is not limited to a single style or technique but represents a universal and diverse form of body language. »
My primary goal is to provide high-quality instruction—both technical and artistic—in a healthy, welcoming environment, and to pass on to our young dancers not only the joy of dance but also essential values such as respect for others, perseverance, and humility.
Over the years, with the invaluable collaboration of outstanding educators, we have developed a pre-professional training program that has quickly produced young talent.
The natural evolution of the training program led to the creation of the Advanced Dancer Training and Junior Ballet curriculum, designed to guide the dancer right up to the threshold of a professional career.
