LAURA CRISTINOIU - Artistic Director
Laura Cristinoiu was born in Romania, Bucharest, in a rigorous environment due to the social and political scene back in 1985. She was very young when she started taking ballet classes. Guided by her family, she got into the Bucharest State School of Choreography – Floria Capsali when she was ten. Her professional journey in the ballet world started there. It continued for the next eight years when she finished high school first the promotion.
During her high school years, she successfully participated in national ballet competitions. She started collaborating with the National State Opera of Bucharest when she was sixteen. She studied with great teachers like Sergiu Stefansky, Gilbert Mayer, Mihai Babuska, and the principal dancer of the National State Opera of Bucharest, Corina Dumitrescu, who greatly impacted her dancing manner and, later on, her teaching skills.
She danced with the State Opera until 2010, when she founded Attitude Ballet Studio Bucharest and became a teacher for professionals and adults who joined the dance world.
In 2005 she started studying Choreography at the National University of Theatre and Cinematography in Bucharest. She discovered contemporary dance and improvisation and studied with dedicated teachers like Valentina dePiante and Liliana Iorgulescu. During her college years, she danced and created modern dance pieces and studied pedagogy, art history, theatre, character dance, and many more.
In 2010 she founded Attitude Ballet Studio Bucharest. Here she had the chance to develop new classes and teaching methods for children and adults. Every ballet class she teaches is based on the Vaganova Method, one of the world's best teaching methods in ballet.
Through years of teaching adults and children, Laura Cristinoiu developed her method based on understanding the students' bodies, needs, and abilities. Her approach allows tailoring the educational process concerning the mental and physical strengths of the students but without forcing their capabilities to the extreme. She teaches young dancers discipline by acknowledging their personalities, interests, and beliefs.
She founded Attitude Ballet Studios Vienna in 2019. The school focuses on teaching top-quality ballet and all related cultural forms of dance, such as character dance, contemporary, neoclassical, and top training for everyone who appreciates quality. We collaborate with great artists worldwide who share their knowledge with our students.
In 2021 Vienna International Ballet Intensive had its first edition and gathered famous ballet teachers from Austria, Russia, Romania, and Germany. Every year our International Ballet Intensive continues to grow its audience and good results.
In 2020 Laura Cristinoiu joined the Erasmus+ program "Teachers for SwanZ" together with "Floria Capsali Choreography Highschool - Bucharest", "The Hellenic Union of Romania" and "Prof. Veselin Stoianov - School of Arts in Ruse, Bulgaria" - co-funded by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union. The project ended successfully in 2022 and continues to train teachers and spread new and updated ideas for teaching thru its three main intellectual outputs: a training course for dance teachers to support them in developing both professional and communication skills, coaching, and intercultural dialogue skills; a web learning platform - The Virtual Laboratory - where dance classes are taught online and where exercises, shows, interviews, messages, opinions are uploaded as video files; a mini-guide for non-dance teachers, which has the role of supporting teachers who teach different subjects to introduce in their classes terminology, activities, and exercises related to dance. Attitude Ballet Vienna also continues its journey with the Erasmus+ projects in 2023.
Attitude Ballet Studios Vienna is a safe and artistic environment so children and adult students can develop professional skills while feeling good about themselves and the learning process.