Ballet teacher

Extensive experience with children

Virginie is a French dancer and ballet teacher based in Switzerland. She began her ballet training in Pau and continued at the conservatoire in Nice, later earning the French ballet teacher technical certificate. She has many years of experience teaching ballet to children and vocational students, and worked for two seasons as ballet mistress with the Junior Company of the Irish National Youth Ballet.

She has a strong interest in ballet pedagogy and enjoys observing and studying classes. She also worked with ballet teacher Jeanne Albertini on the French pointe-work style, presenting their research at a ballet conference in Paris in 2011.

Alongside dance, Virginie has a background in engineering and business. She studied engineering in France and Canada, worked for several years with the French Space Agency on satellite launches, and later completed an MBA in Ireland. Today, she teaches ballet and enjoys sharing her love of dance with young students, and is also the mother of two children.