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The Higher Private Professional & Amateur Dance School “NIKI KONTAXAKI” \u2013 NIKOLETTA\u2019S BAKALI (recognized by the State), was established in accordance with the rules and regulations appointed by the Hellenic law\u00a0Low 1158\/1981 & Presidential Degree 372\/1983.<\/p>\n
It offers:<\/p>\n
All of the courses are organized according to the Hellenic law, for the establishment and operation of the amateur & professional dance schools in Greece.<\/p>\n
The aim of the School is the cultivation of the sense of rhythm and movement, the offering of a quality education on classical and contemporary dance, structured on a carefully trained curriculum that follows the International criteria and the principles of the globally renowned dance systems. The educational and artistic School\u2019s program, aims on training students to dance systematically and methodically, to dance with knowledge, discipline, artistry, creativity and harmony. In conclusion,\u00a0 to dance with their whole “body and soul”.<\/p>\n
The School was founded by NIKI KONTAXAKI – BAKALI, honors graduator of Sonia Morianova\u2019s School of Dance, where she was an excellent assistant and partner from 1964 to 1974. She also worked as a teacher of classical dance in the Italian School of Athens for 10 years. In 1972 she went for further training in Paris, where she attended a choreography course taught by Tikanova. In 1973 she accepted the invitation to participate as the representative of Greece in the international ballet competition in Moscow at the Bolshoi Theatre. She has attended several seminars close to distinguished teachers – choreographers from Operas of England, Russia, France, Germany, Australia etc. In 1987 she founded the professional \u201cNIKI\u2019s KONTAXAKI CLASSICAL & CONTEMPORARY DANCE ENSEMLE “, a non-profit organization, which has given a large number of performances in theaters of Greece and received high distinctions and reviews (government grants, honorary invitations, awards, positive reviews in leading newspapers Greece, etc.), such as the Best Production Award for the ballet “Coppelia” (given by the artistic committee of the Ministry of Culture on 2000).<\/p>\n
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The active section of \u201cNIKI\u2019s KONTAXAKI CLASSICAL & CONTEMPORARY DANCE ENSEMLE” was completed in 2015, after a brilliant collaboration with renowned choreographers and young dancers, many of whom have been absorbed in dance companies in Greece and abroad.<\/p>\n
The School organizes performances with the participation of students from its professional, pre-professional and amateur classes aiming to enhance and promote its student dancing skills through dance performances attended by a large audience.<\/p>\n
From 2002 the artistic focus of the School has focused on the development of an EDUCATIONAL DANCE ENSEMBLE formed by students of senior and professional level. In that way the young dancers of the School are given the opportunity to participate in galas, festivals, competitions and other dance performances, to further practice their technique on the classical and contemporary repertoire and to broaden their stage experience by collaborating with choreographers from Greece and abroad.<\/p>\n
Since 2005 the management the Higher Professional School and from 2013 the management of the Amateur Scholl has been transferred (according to official decisions) to Nicoletta Bakali, daughter of Niki Kontaxaki – Bakali and graduate of the above mentioned Dance School.<\/p>\n
Nikoletta Bakali is a dance teacher, with a considerable dancing experience (classical and contemporary productions with Nikis\u2019 Kontaxaki Dance Enseble, opera and ballet productions of the National Opera and the National Opera \/studio – period 1997-2000), with extra training on dance and tutoring and holder of further dance and teaching certificates \/diplomas (Intermediate up to Advanced 2, Teacher’s Certificate & Diploma of the Royal Academy of Dance). She has also a postgraduate diploma (MASTER) on pedagogue and creative learning, awarded by the department of Physical Education and Sport Science of the University of Thrace and she is a graduate of the Department of Archaeology and History of Art at the Athens\u2019 Kappodistrian University.<\/p>\n