Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main

Andrea Tallis was born in Los Angeles. She studied many styles of dance with specific early influences from Irina Kosmovska, John Clifford and Melissa Hayden. She continued her education, under scholarship, with the Pennsylvania Ballet School and the School of American Ballet in New York. She worked as soloist with Makarova and Company and danced principle roles with the Los Angeles Ballet. Andrea joined Ballet Frankfurt in 1983 under the direction of Egon Madsen and subsequently, from 1984-1999 worked for William Forsythe. She worked extensively on the development of creations and concepts, with William Forsythe during the years with Ballet Frankfurt. Andrea is a teacher of classical ballet technique, composition and improvisation as well as a choreographic assistant, ballet master and reconstructor. She was based as ballet master with the Gothenburg Ballet 1999 – 2002 and then until Oct 2009 has worked freelance. Since 2009 she is Professor in Frankfurt with the dance department.
Andrea offers a ballet class as part of the Tuning in for the day format during the 5th Biennale Tanzausbildung.