What students say about their experience
What is it like to take ballet classes or receive personal coaching? Read how students experience ballet classes or coaching at Studio Simoncini and what it has meant to them.
🩰 The coaching is intensive, you get full attention and a lot of corrections. We spent the first few months working on basic technique, placement, strength and coordination. This has given me much more control over my body.
We have now started with pointe technique , which is new to me and a challenge, but I totally love it! Today we worked on the échappé on pointe, where you don’t jump but you use the floor and your pointes to slide into the 2nd position
Matilde Montoleone
⚖️ Everytime I would go to class at Studio Simoncini I would forget whatever was on my mind. I was only thinking about the dancing.
Ballet is not easy, you have to be able to look at yourself.
It taught me how discipline and passion are intertwined and this will give you the perfect balance between hard work and pleasure, simply enjoying the dancing
Jolein van Vugt
Student Regular Ballet
Skills, musicality, and personal growth
💡Mirella has a clear approach that you can put into practice right away. The specific exercises really helped me.
Sander Baaij
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
🎵 During the coaching I received, Mirella taught me how to work better with musicality. And how to apply it in different exercises. I learned a lot from this and I’m looking forward to another coaching session!
Anna van Dieren
Nationale Balletacademie
✨ Mirella is an extremely positive and talented teacher. She knows when and how to say the right corrections to seek for improvement. With only one classes she can spot how to help everyone of us with individual tools to go further and improve.
As a dancer we take class everyday and see a diversity of teachers and way of teaching. It is always a pleasure to take class with Mirella Simoncini. It hit this perfect combination which makes you working hard because you want it.
She delivers nice and challenging exercises that makes you warm and enjoy dance. I wouldn’t say it is an easy class, it is a beautiful class to work, A must have. Excellent exercises, brilliant spirit, and spot on correction.
Pierre Tappon
Dancer Rambert Dance Company (LinkedIn)
Student experiences with group classes
🎭 Learning ballet when you’re almost fifty is tough and touching at the same time. And that’s exactly how it should be. Ballet is the perfect combination of discipline and love.
There is nothing else that gives me the mental relaxation that I find in Ballet. I am always busy in my mind and I have a busy job but ballet calms me down. I can totally open up to feel the music and focus on the exercises. At Studio Simoncini I have learned that I can really enjoy the dancing and the moment.
Sjimmy Bruijninckx
Student Adult beginners class
🆗 It’s nice to be part of a group where it’s okay how you are. You don’t have to be able to do everything at once.” says Doris. “The adult beginners class is wonderful. We all come from a different place and that’s okay. We are learning together how to move on music
Doris Veldman
Student Adult beginners class
☀️ I will never forget the ballet school.This school is more than just a place to dance. Once, one of the girls, Nina, jumped out of the dressing room dressed as Santa Claus (Sinterklaas). Mirella had pretended to mess up the music, and suddenly Nina appeared. It was hilarious!
Studio Simoncini has been the most stable thing in my life. I’ll take the passion, humor, and friendships with me—it’s been unforgettable
Mireia Muntané Martí
🎻 I am completely absorbed in the balletclass. The music that I normally make myself through small movements, literally fiddling on every musical note, is part of a larger whole here in class.
It’s so nice when you make music professionally, to combine that with ballet and that you then completely internalize it in your body.
Robin Veldman
Student Adult Ballet
Experiences with private lessons and coaching
👐🏻 I really enjoyed coaching and working on placement. By shifting most of my body weight to the balls of my feet, I believe it has improved my turn out. And I am happy with the spotting technique Mirella used for pirouette. To keep my torso really up straight, I learned how you should make your focus come slightly up with you on eye level when going from plie onto demi pointe.
Fabienne Deesker
🏆 I have received coaching from Mirella on a classical variation and technical coaching. Both were so beneficial, mentally as well as physically. She has the unique ability to tailor the coaching sessions for your personal needs and communicates her knowledge in a variety of ways in order to get the best out of you
Lana Panfilow
🌀 Since I follow coaching I am working more consciously. Last time we have been looking at the use of muscles for several classical movements and more specifically where the movements exactly are coming from. Coaching very intensive but I love it.
Myrthe Jenniskens
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
🎹 Ballet is helping me as a musician because with ballet you have to feel the music. And time your movements very precisely. It is also helpful to develop your stage presence.
Isabel Hasselaar
Student Regular Ballet
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