Şebnem Önal is the 2nd Year Women’s Ballet Tutor at Englisch National Ballet School. She graduated in 2001 with a Diploma Degree for Dance Pedagogy of John Cranko School in Stuttgart and is a certified Dance Pedagogue of Berlin Certified School for Dance Pedagogy after Waganowa System. Şebnem Önal is also teaching Floor Barre.
Born in Ankara Şebnem Önal received her ballet education at the Dance Academy in Berlin. She was a student of the russian ballet teacher Tatjana Gsovksy. Şebnem was also a scholarship holder of the Ballet Academy Heinz Bosl-Stiftung in Munich and joined the State Ballet Munih immediately after graduating at the age of 18.
In 1997 she joined The Stuttgart Ballet under the direction of Reid Anderson and in 2004 as a soloist dancer at the State Ballet Berlin under the direction of Vladimir Malakhov and in 2014 under the direction of Nacho Duato.
Her repertoire includes main and solo roles in various classical and neo classical repertoire as well as contemporary works such as Swan Lake, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, La Sylphide, Les Sylphide, Nutcracker, Coppélia, Don Quixote, La Bajadère, Paquita, Onegin, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, Le Papillon, La Vivandière, Sheherazade. George Balanchine’s Ballet Imperial, Sinfonie in C, Themes and Variations, Allegro Brilliante, and Serenade.
Şebnem worked with renowned choreographers like Maurice Bèjart, Hans van Manen, Boris Eifman, Jiri Kylian, William Forsythe, Uwe Scholz, Nacho Duato, Mauro Bigonzetti, Marco Goecke amongst others.
She has toured on several occasions and starred in gala performances in USA, Japan, Korea, China, Italy and Spain.
