Doralisa Reinos de Tafel
Dance Teacher
© Ingo Schaefer
Doralisa Reinos de Tafel is a dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher from Caracas, Venezuela. Her artistic career began as an actress in theater before she turned to classical ballet and completed comprehensive training in Caracas. She has been living in Germany since 2013, working as a dancer and developing her own choreographic works – often under the stage name Ninatoka del valle in the independent scene. In 2024, she completed her training as a Vinyasa yoga teacher.
Her artistic practice combines dance, yoga, and choreography with educational activities, workshops, and research projects—from interdisciplinary works to projects at schools, universities, and cultural institutions in Germany, Spain, and Venezuela. Since 2022, Doralisa Reinos de Tafel has been giving workshops as a dance teacher as part of the Tanz mit! + Tanz mal! project run by the dance education department of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein at various schools in Düsseldorf, Duisburg, and the surrounding area.
Her artistic practice combines dance, yoga, and choreography with educational activities, workshops, and research projects—from interdisciplinary works to projects at schools, universities, and cultural institutions in Germany, Spain, and Venezuela. Since 2022, Doralisa Reinos de Tafel has been giving workshops as a dance teacher as part of the Tanz mit! + Tanz mal! project run by the dance education department of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein at various schools in Düsseldorf, Duisburg, and the surrounding area.