YUKICHI HATTORI
Junior & Senior Summer Intensive
I am so looking forward to dancing with you this summer.
Each time I teach, I’m reminded how much I learn in return. Through your reactions, your movements, and your curiosity, I discover new truths about how a step works, how movement is perceived, and how much more there is still to understand. That exchange is what makes this art form so important.
It is a beautiful experience — and above all, deeply joyful.
I hope you will join us. I can’t wait to share the studio with you.
GALIEN JOHNSTON HATTORI
Junior & Senior Summer Intensive
Galien received her formal training at Canada’s National Ballet School. Upon graduation, Galien danced professionally for the National Ballet of Canada, The Hamburg Ballet, and as a Principal Dancer with the Alberta Ballet Company.
After retirement form her professional ballet career, she began to guest teach around Alberta and Japan. She also served as Guest Ballet Mistress for the Alberta Ballet Company and the children’s cast director for Alberta Ballet’s production of the Nutcracker for two years. Knowing that she wanted to venture more into working with students, Galien attended Mount Royal University’s Bachelor of Education program. Taking what she learned there and combining it with her vast knowledge and experience in classical ballet, Galien, along with her partners Yukichi Hattori and Tara Williamson, opened H/W School of Ballet in 2016. Along with teaching and directing the school, Galien continued to work as a freelance dancer and performed with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Alberta Ballet Company, and at the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan.
Galien is passionate about ballet and sharing her knowledge and experience with the next generation of dancers. She has a student first focus and makes sure that each dancer in her class gets the individual care and attention they need. Since moving to St. John’s in 2024, she has been sharing her knowledge and experience in ballet with the dancers and trainees of Kittiwake Ballet as a Guest Instructor and Coach. She has also been involved as a repetiteur for the Nutcracker and as co-choreograher of Kittiwake’s 2025 production of Winnie the Pooh. She is also actively teaching and coaching students in St. John’s. Galien is looking forward to being part of this summer intensive series and being able to assist and guide more young dancers in the art of classical ballet.
SANDRO RAJIC
Senior Summer Intensive
Sandro Rajic, MSc, is the Co Founder and Head of Movement Architecture at XONE Performance. With 40,000 plus hours of applied coaching, testing, and movement analysis, he supports professional dance companies and high performing dancers by turning what is often felt into something that can be seen, measured, and trained, without losing artistry.
Sandro is a multi time IADMS presenter and speaker and a former HDC board member. His MSc work led to published research in dance mechanics, and his ongoing work sits where studio tradition meets biomechanics: classical principles, passed down practices, and modern measurement woven into practical progressions dancers can execute immediately. His work is organized through a systems model called Code X, designed to distill and simplify the complexity of movement mechanics into clear decisions, repeatable methods, and measurable progress.
He is completing a PhD on the roots of movement in ballet, focused on the foundations that drive turnout strategy, alignment decisions, joint sequencing, force transfer, and performance under speed and fatigue.