Tina Bohnstedt

Ballet Master, Choreographer

TRAINING + PERFORMANCE

Tina Bohnstedt trained at Munich’s Heinz-Bosl Stiftung Ballet Academy where she won Junior Gold Medal at the German Ballet Competition and fourth place in the Moscow International Ballet Competition. She became a principal with Munich’s Bavarian State Ballet. In 1992, she was recognized with the Bavarian Cultural Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts. She performed works by John Cranko, Peter Wright, John Neumeier, George Balanchine, Hans van Manen, Jiří Kylián, Ohad Naharin, and many others. Her international tours include China, Italy, Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Colombia, Peru, Poland, Belarus, Spain, and Switzerland.  In 1998, she became a guest dancer with Lawrence Pech Dance Company in San Francisco. In 1999, she joined Diablo Ballet as a principal. 

TEACHING

She became Diablo Ballet Apprentice Program’s director (2005) and Diablo Ballet ballet mistress (2007). She served on faculty at City Ballet San Francisco and was appointed Houston Ballet ballet master (2011). She has taught at Kirov Ballet Academy, Bavarian State Ballet, Houston Ballet Academy, Northern California Dance Conservatory, Panama Ballet, Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre, Colorado Conservatory of Dance, Atlanta Ballet and many more. From 2015-2017 she founded/directed TKB Center for Ballet and Dance in Houston. In 2018, she was appointed ballet mistress at Vitacca Vocational School for Dance, Houston.  In 2020, she became the founding ballet mistress for Vitacca Ballet.

CHOREOGRAPHY

She has choreographed for Diablo Ballet and Apprentice Program, Kirov Ballet Academy, Northern California Dance Conservatory, Metropolitan Ballet Academy, Colorado Conservatory of Dance, Contra Costa Ballet, Houston Ballet II, Houston Ballet, Uptown Dance Company, Space Coast Ballet Academy, Atlanta Ballet II as well as many solos for YAGP and WBC.