Maxime Gilles Guenin

Joffrey Ballet School

Maxime Gilles Guenin was brought up in Switzerland training extensively in ballet, contemporary, jazz, hip-hop, breakdance, popping, house and improvisation at the school for Urban and Contemporary Dances in Zurich. He spent a year in Havana, Cuba at the Center of Cuban National Ballet focusing on Classical Ballet, Latin Dance and Afro-Cuban Dance. He has toured the world extensively as a guest artist performing in Spain, Italy, Germany, China, the UK, Portugal, Czech Republic and Switzerland working most recently with choreographers such as Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, Ching Ching Wong, Francesca Harper, Ismael Ivo, Caroline Fynn, Cathy Marston, Ihsan Rustem, Jana Burkiewiczova, Jochen Heckmann, Neel Jansen, Luca Signoretti, and Paula Lansley amongst others. Maxime is in demand teaching around the world and guest teaches in Dalian University Shenzhen and the University of Shenyang Dance Conservatory in China as well as resident teacher in a variety of programs in Switzerland.