Best Art And History Courses Zurich Near Me

4worldlovers: “It is important to get over your inhibitions and expand your creative horizon”.

"I wish, I had people like the teachers at ART of, to teach me at the beginning of my career".

“When young dancers have had experience with Forsythe or Kylian pieces they really stand out at an audition”.


At ART of our educational philosophy encourages participants, who come from more than 50 different nations, to be the best they can be, we believe it's what you do that counts.

We believe that by giving you the opportunity to work with the best ballet teachers, ballet masters and choreographers the dance world has to offer you will receive a head start towards your career and become the well rounded dancer companies of today are looking for.

After recognizing a gap in the dance education of young dancers, ART of aims to provide young dancers with various skills that will help them along their journey towards a professional ballet career, as well as making them understand the direct relationship between classical and modern dance.

Our participants receive the unique opportunity to not only expand their horizon and perfect their technique and artistry, they also have the privilege of working with ballet teachers that usually only work with leading ballet schools and ballet companies around the globe.

Every course has a limited amount of participants so that every participant can benefit from personalized attention and become the best dancer they can be.

“We founded ART of to bring the best of dance to the dancers of tomorrow”

Founded in 2012 by former Semperoper Ballet First Soloist Oleg Klymyuk and his colleague Fabien Voranger with the support of William Forsythe, ART of quickly established itself as one of the leading providers of ballet masterclasses and summer courses in Europe.

ART of held its first course in July 2012 in Berlin and has quickly expanded to various locations in Europe including Madrid, Zurich and Marseille.

Every course attracts over a hundred dancers from all over the globe.

In 2016 the ART of became the official partner summer school of the Prix de Lausanne. This partnership further cements the will of ART of to be a stepping stone towards the fruitful career of young dancers as well as its commitment to the highest level of dance education.

Local and international dancers are since then able to benefit from the excellent training provided by ART of all year through.

ART of locations are chosen for their exceptional quality and prime location.

Our spacious studios have state of the art equipment and are located in the most vibrant and easily accessible cities around the world.

Easy access from international airports, public transport and multiple accommodation choices are guarantied.

ART of partners with prestigious dance institutions across the world. Through our many connections and relationships with professional dance companies, schools and respected individuals in the dance world, we are able to give our participants the best dance education possible and provide a stepping stone towards the start or advancement of their career as a dancer.

“Partnerships with major dance institutions such as the Prix de Lausanne sets ART of apart from other courses”

4worldlovers:
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Featuring works by Border Forensics, Antoine Félix Bürcher, María José Crespo, Zoya Laktionova, Johanna Locher, Ornella Ostapenko and UNITED for Intercultural Action

Curated by Nora Brown, Rosela del Bosque, Jana Kurth, Taylor Hubbard, Margherita Martini

Wit works by Archivo Familiar del Río Colorado, Sara Bonaventura, Cristina Cabada, Matthias Moos, Giulia Spada.

Opening event with Magali Dougoud, Roberto Niño Betancourt, Elisa Strinna and Jeon TaeHwan

Online workshop by James Jack, Mina Elison and Donkey Mill Art Center

COMPOST: Training to Access Ecology as a Migratory System #2 – Oceanic entanglements

Hybrid performance by Stefanie Knobel & Samrat Banerjee (Institute for Plant, Animal and Human Migration)

Film Screening ‘Common Heritage’ by Emma Critchley + Panel Discussion by Mekhala Dave with Pradeep Singh, Cyrill Martin, Maureen Penjueli, Fiona Middleton

Online presentation by Augmented Materiality Lab (Alvaro Cassinelli, Jayson Haebich, and Eugenia Kim)

Group show with works by A_O_S_A_A, Alina Kopytsia, Anim Jeon, Simon Risi, Line Chevalley, Jonathan Ospina

Lecto-performance as an introduction, followed by the workshop by Leticia Cordero


Followed by a screening of John Akomfrah's "The Last Angel of History" (1995)

Exhibition and Book Launch with signature drinks by U5 with Helene Romakin


COMPOST: The invisible universe under our feet – What soil can teach us and what can grow from it


COMPOST: ‘Sols brouillés et remontés’ / ‘Scrambled and whipped soils’


Dinner and book presentation by Gabriel N.Gee / TETI Group – TETI Press

With Malte Larsen, Maya Minder, Linda Mary Montano, Andreas Siagian, Adam Zaretsky

With Kathrin Böhme & Wapke Feenstra, Joachim Granit (FÄRGFABRIKEN), Luchezar Boyadjiev, Aksiniya Peycheva, Radostin Sedevchev, Kalin Serapionov, Krassimir Terziev (ICA-Sofia), Yusaku Imamura (GAP Tokyo), JJ and Donkey Mill Art Center, Knowbotiq, Dorothee Richter & Ronald Kolb (OnCurating.org), Joseph Rustom & Sandra Schäfer, Giulia Rossini & Tyuki Imamura (Compost Network)

With Stirnimann-Stojanovic, Lara Caluori, and a DJ Set by Salo & Lucianne