At the end of the 1980s Silvia met Juliu Horvath for the first time and was deeply fascinated by his method. Since then she has continued her long training with Juliu, following his very rich teachings. She has always felt how the method was the best support for her activity as a therapist.

Born in Florence, Silvia started studying dance at the Hamlyn school at a very young age. As a teenager she moved to London where she studied at the Royal Ballet School. She worked as a professional dancer at the ATERballetto in Reggio Emilia with Amedeo Amodio, then the Stadt Oper of Bonn with Peter Van Dyck and the Théâtre Chorégraphique de Rennes with Gigi Caciuleanu. A serious knee accident during a show abruptly interrupted her activity as a dancer but opened the door to the world of therapy and wellness.

Born in Impruneta, she has been working for years in Florence with Silvia Frosali’s team. She continues to practice yoga, of which she feels a deep affinity with Gyrotonic®, and she continues her work with the Gyrotonic Expansion System® as an attentive and enthusiastic teacher.

She also conducted the Gyrotonic® Level 2 and Gyrotonic Principles in the context of Osteopathy course with Silvia Frosali. For some years she has been providing courses as a PRE – TRAINER GYROTONIC® LEVEL 1.

She has had a long career as a choreographer, working in prestigious theaters including La Scala in Milan, and presenting at dance and theater festivals at Avignon, Bath, and Berlin. She has collaborated with directors of the caliber of Pier’Alli and Alfredo Arias with composers such as Luciano Berio and Salvatore Sciarrino. She has taught classical, contemporary and Graham technique dance. For many years she has been teaching expressive movement for singers and musicians, and currently works at the Lugano Conservatory.

In 2007 she began her freelance practice, creating her Antje Sagawe studio and collaborating with other structures: the Dr. Giappichelli dental practice, the Carafa medical practice, the Pilates Touch studio and, since 2016, she collaborates with Silvia Frosali’s Gyrotonic® Firenze Studio.

She then turned to the figurative arts and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in sculpture with a research between art and science on the dynamics of forms in space. Since 2000 she has collaborated with the Galileo Museum, the Faculty of Architecture of Florence and the Opificio delle Pietre Dure. She exhibits her work as a sculptor in Paris, in the USA, in Shanghai.

She continues to cultivate her own training by attending Silvia Frosali’s GYROTONIC® Firenze studio for several years and finds in the Gyrotonic® and Gyrokinesis® lessons a particularly satisfying discipline both in terms of exercise and personal well-being. She underwent training for the GYROTONIC® Level 1 Teacher Certificate (2016) and Jumping Stretching Board (2018). Thanks to the GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM® method, Stella resumes teaching with an understanding of the continuity between two forms of communication: fine arts and her previous experience in the field of dance.

At the beginning of the 90s, since the arrival in Italy of the Gyrokinesis® and Gyrotonic®,  Method, she introduced the two methods systematically in his daily training, acquiring ever greater awareness and better use of the energy of the body in motion, fully benefiting during her long artistic career and in the recovery of professional injuries. Aurora began studying classical dance at a very young age with Brenda Hamlyn in Florence, her hometown, and then completed her training at the Royal Ballet School in London. She joined the Italian Ballet Company, directed by Carla Fracci and Beppe Menegatti, covering important solo roles in the classical repertoire. Her encounters with the English choreographer Wayne McGregor, in whose company – Random Dance now Studio Wayne McGregor – she is often a guest, opened the door to precious experiences in contemporary language. There were numerous collaborations, as mâitre de ballet and assistant to choreography, alongside the Canadian choreographer Paul Chalmer, both in Germany (Leipzig Ballet) and in Poland (Opera Nova by Bydgoszcz). The experience of many years of work, as a dancer and later as a teacher, allows her to integrate classical skills with those of Gyrokinesis® and Gyrotonic® acquired both with direct practice and with the teaching of these disciplines.

Born in Los Angeles, California, where he began his ballet training, Louis became a professional dancer. He danced for many years at the Joffrey Ballet, one of the most famous American dance companies.

In 2000 he began to suffer from constant lumbar and sacroiliac pain. After trying multiple therapeutic avenues without success, one of his Pilates clients suggests that he try the Gyrotonic® method. The immediate and lasting benefits, the total disappearance of pain from the very first lessons, convince him to take the path of teaching in order to share the enthusiasm and passion for the method with his clients.

Still immersed in this world and with an ever increasing rpassion for movement, he enthusiastically approached the Gyrotonic® method which immediately fascinated and impressed him in its functionality of valid support for all those who practice a sport and for psycho-physical well-being that brings in everyone.