KIRILL SAFIN
Kirill Safin graduated from the Moscow State Ballet Academy in 2006 and completed a final year of training at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St Petersburg. Kirill was chosen to join the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 2007, and later, he became a leading soloist of the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre. His repertoire included the major classic roles such as Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake, Solor in La Bayadere, Conrad in Le Corsaire and Albrecht in Giselle.
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SAFIN
EKATERINA KRASYUK
Just as exciting is the very recent arrival of Ekaterina Krasyuk of the Vaganova School and Mariinsky Ballet who will take up a vocational position at the school but will teach adults three times a week with passion and dedication. We are incredibly lucky to have this beautiful dancer join the team for you.
EKATERINA
KRASYUK
EKATERINA ANISHCHENKO
Ekaterina Anishchenko graduated from Vaganova Ballet Academy in 2018 and became a soloist at the Mikhailovsky Theatre. Ekaterina will be joining our team to share her knowledge and love of ballet. She is a teacher of her own bespoke Ballet Pilates programme. Her repertoire includes major classical roles such as Nikya in La Bayadere, Maria in the Nutcracker and the 7th Waltz in Chopiniana. Ekaterina will help you to find your mind and body connection through stretching and an intense workout for your body.
EKATERINA
ANISHCHENKO
GRISHA IVANOV
Grisha trained at the Bolshoi and is a soloist at the Jacobsen Company in St Petersburg and he will be joining our team dedicated to you. He is a wonderful teacher who will expand your technical skill to grow your confidence, develop your technique at every level and let you move with powerful athleticism and grace.
GRISHA
IVANOV
KAMILA SIZINCEVA
Kamila is a graduate of the School of Classical Russian Ballet, class of Irina Prokofieva, Honoured Artist of Russia and former Principal of the Bolshoi Ballet. She was one of the first ever vocational students at the school and therefore is a testament to the unique education system and opportunities offered by the school.
KAMILA
SIZINCEVA
MARIANNE ALLEN
Marianne is a graduate of the School of Classical Russian Ballet, 2019 Class of Evgeny Goremykin. She went on to dance with the New English Ballet Theatre and the Royal Opera House’s Choreographic Project in collaboration with the Royal Ballet. At present she is working with Astana Ballet as a Second Soloist.
MARIANNE
ALLEN
NAOMI NORRIS
Naomi Norris trained at the Queensland Conservatoire of Ballet Brisbane, Australia and then at the New Zealand School of Dance. On graduation she joined the AJKUN Ballet Theatre of Contemporary Dance in New York where she danced for a number of years. She returned to Sydney where she worked with the dance faculties of different universities as both teacher and examiner and at the Hill Song College where she created original contemporary pieces for the students as well as writing the contemporary dance syllabus. Naomi has been teaching for over five years.
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NORRIS
INGA GEORGE
Inga graduated from the V. Chabukiani Ballet School with distinction and joined the National State Opera and Ballet Theatre Named After Z. Paliashvili where she began as a soloist and progressed to becoming a prima. She performed in many classical ballets, Swan Lake, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty and Don Quixote amongst them.
Later in her career Inga taught classical ballet at the V. Chabukiani Ballet School in Tbilisi and was appointed Assistant Artistic Director, working together with T. Vashakidze, the principal dancer and choreographer of the Ballet School.