GAMAL GOUDA
PRINCIPAL BALLET MASTER SEMPEROPER BALLETT DRESDEN
was born in Port Said (Egypt) and trained at the Cairo Academy of Arts, He finished his studies at the Cairo Higher Ballet Institute with teachers from Moscow and St. Petersburg and received his Diploma in 1977. After graduating, he joined the Cairo Ballet Company, where his repertory as a soloist and principal included Basil in Don Quixote, the Pas de deux from Le Corsaire and Solos in The Nutcracker. In 1979 he joined John Neumeier's Hamburg Ballet where he remained until 1998, being promoted to Principal as early as in 1983. John Neumeier created more than a dozen of leading roles for him, such as Mordred in The Saga of King Arthur, The Sea Witch in Ondine, the title role in The blue Garden, The Music in Windows on Mozart, Fenge in the new version of Hamlet, principal roles in St. Mathew Passion and Requiem, Solos in Secrets, Gustav Mahlers Sixth Symphony, Shall we Dance? I got rhythm, Peer Gynt and Last Solo For Gamal.Gamal danced the Pas de deux from Sheherazade with Carla Fracci and made guest appearances in Brussels, Vienna, Munich, St . Petersburg, Cairo, Berlin, Dresden, Hannover, Stuttgart, and the World Ballet Festival in Japan.He was awarded with the Hamburg Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörfer Prize in 1981 and - as first dancer ever - with the Silver Mask of Hamburger Volksbühne in 1991.From 1999 to 2002, Gamal worked as Guest Ballet Instructor with the following companies: Ballett der Deutschen Oper am Rhein, Ballett der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Bayerisches Staatsballett, Cullberg Ballet, Ballett der Staatsoper Hannover and
Ballett Nürnberg. From 2002 to 2004 he was engaged as Ballet Master at Ballett Nürnberg. In
As a Ballet Instructor and Ballet Master coaching principals and soloists
January 2005 - August 2009 at Bavarian State Ballet
August 2009 at Semperoper Ballett
August 2011 Principal Ballet Master at Semperoper Ballett
As Choreographers Assistant with:
Ray Barra,Patrice Bart, David Dawson, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, Jacopo Godani, JiříKylián, Graeme Murphy, John Neumeier, Martin Schläpfer, Hans van Manen, Peter Wright
Master Class:
2010 Tanz Plan Dresden
2011 and 2012 Batholin International Ballet Seminar Copenhagen.