About us
We are choreologist Tatjana Thierbach and our team of close artistic collaborators of Uwe Scholz.
Tatjana Thierbach
was Uwe Scholz’s choreologist from 1993 until his death.
She received her ballet training at the John Cranko School in Stuttgart, where her interest in Benesh notation was awakened.
After her A-levels, she studied at the Benesh Institute in London, where she graduated as an „Associate of the Institute of Choreology“.
In 1993, Uwe Scholz engaged her as a choreologist at the Leipzig Ballet, where she notated and rehearsed the majority of his works. From 1997, Scholz sent her out exclusively for all productions in Germany and abroad.
Outside of the Leipzig Ballet, Tatjana has staged and premiered ballets by Uwe Scholz more than 40 times, including with the Stuttgart Ballet, in Berlin, Paris, Zurich, Milan, Prague, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro, Beijing, Japan, and Australia.
Since 1999, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris has repeatedly invited her to teach repertoire and master classes.
From 2003 to 2006, Tatjana studied musicology and theater studies at Freie Universität Berlin.
In addition to her work as a choreologist, Tatjana was invited as a speaker and lecturer on Benesh movement notation and choreology. Her lectures have taken her to venues including the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig, the Leipzig Dance Archive, and theaters in Nuremberg, Gera, and Graz.
In 2019, 2021, and 2025, she served on the examination committee for the Benesh Movement Notation master's program at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.
Following Uwe Scholz’s death, Tatjana holds his moral rights as of 2020. Since 2026, she also holds the rights to use and license his entire body of work.
To preserve and share Uwe Scholz’s artistic legacy, she launched Uwe Scholz Legacy, a collaboration among the choreographer’s former colleagues and artistic partners.
Her aim is to carry his vision and creativity into the future and to continue to touch a wide audience with his musicality and expressiveness.
Companies or individuals who wish to perform or present one of Uwe Scholz's works or an excerpt thereof are required to obtain permission from the owner.
Our artistic team in alphabetical order:
Christoph Böhm
is a ballet master, choreographer, and former principal dancer with the Leipzig Ballet. He lives in Berlin and teaches classical ballet, pas de deux, and repertoire at the State Ballet School Berlin and the Youth Ballet Berlin. He also regularly performs as a guest with leading companies in Germany and abroad.
As a dancer, he performed leading roles in works by Uwe Scholz, George Balanchine, John Cranko, Youri Vámos, and Glen Tetley.
Böhm has rehearsed Le Corsaire in national and international productions, among other works.
Rehearsals of works by Uwe Scholz repeatedly brought him back to the Leipzig Ballet, as well as to the ballet in Cottbus. He teaches the Scholz repertoire at the State Ballet School in Berlin and performs with his students throughout Germany.
As a sought-after coach, he accompanies dancers to international competitions and regularly leads them to great success.
Eleonora Demichelis
was born in Italy, studied ballet at the John Cranko School in Stuttgart, and danced in various ballet companies throughout Europe. In 2001, she completed her studies in Benesh Movement Notation as a choreologist in Paris.
Eleonora then worked with Uwe Scholz at the Leipzig Ballet, notating his new creations „H Minor Mass” and „Bruckner 8” as well as several works from the Leipzig Ballet's repertoire.
In 2003, Eleonora Demichelis joined the Dutch National Ballet as a choreologist and ballet mistress. She created scores for 12 productions, including three full-length ballets.
As a freelance choreologist, Eleonora has worked with companies in Helsinki, Oslo, Brussels, Dresden, Budapest, and Koblenz, among others. Her work has included teaching repertoire and supervising new productions of ballets by Uwe Scholz, Rudi Van Dantzig, Toer Van Schayk, and David Dawson.
Since 2017, Eleonora Demichelis has been teaching Benesh dance notation at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris at a professional level.
Roser Muñoz Massanas
Born in Barcelona, she studied at the Instituto del Teatro and received a special award upon completing her training.
She continued her studies in classical dance at the Vaganova Academy in St. Petersburg.
Ballerina with the National Ballet of Marseille under Roland Petit.
Principal dancer at the Leipzig Ballet under the direction of Uwe Scholz.
Principal dancer at the Ballet du Capitole in Toulouse under the direction of Nanette Glushak.
In 1999, Roser was named „Best Ballerina of the Year” by Ballet International magazine.
Roser has created several choreographies and participated in numerous international galas and festivals.
She was a guest lecturer at the Leipzig Ballet for the revival of several pieces by Uwe Scholz.
As the official teacher for Uwe Scholz's choreographies, she has restaged his pieces in several dance companies and conservatories, including in Barcelona, Madrid, Cottbus, Rio de Janeiro, Innsbruck, Stuttgart, Mexico City, Havana, Montreal, and Birmingham.
Michael Röger
was born in Leipzig.
Trained at the Leipzig Opera, he has been working there since 1982. In 1995, he became head of lighting at the Leipzig Opera.
He had a particularly close working relationship with Uwe Scholz since 1992. Michael Röger collaborated with Uwe Scholz to create the lighting design for all of the Leipzig Ballet's productions.
Other productions with, among others:
Andreas Frisay Kali Son, Peter Konwitschny, Andreas Homoki, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Giancarlo Del Monaco, Alfred Kirchner, John Dew, Willy Decker, Jerome Savary, Ermano Olmi, Immo Karaman, Werner Schroeter, Aron Sthiel, Michiel Dijkema, Silvana and Mario Schröder, Rosamund Gilmore, Anthony Pilavachi, Balázs Kovalik, and Francisco Negrin.
In the field of jazz, productions with Yosuke Yamaschita, Abdullah Ibrahim, and Bert Noglik.
Guest contracts took Michael to opera houses in Antwerp/Ghent, Zurich, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Toulouse, Dresden, Milan, Karlsruhe, Koblenz, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Ljubljana, Vilnius, Bratislava, Prague, Mulhouse, and Beijing, among others.
The majority of Uwe Scholz's choreographies were notated using Benesh Movement Notation, making it possible to reconstruct them at any time. But how does it work?