Vodolaga Classical Ballet

YURI VODOLAGA, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

        Mr. Vodolaga was born in Kiev, Ukraine where he graduated from the Kiev State Ballet Academy and joined the Kiev State Ballet Theatre. He later received his Ballet Master degree from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia. He has extensive teaching experience both in Russia and in the United States, where he has been a guest teacher with the San Francisco Ballet, Baton Rouge Ballet, Connecticut Ballet, Eglevsky American TheaterDance, Broadway Dance Center, and Peridance Center. He has taught at Miami City Ballet and was the main guest teacher for five years at the Youth America Grand Prix competition in New York City. He was the Artistic Director of the Greenwich Ballet Academy from 2010 to 2019. Many of his students have studied at other prestigious ballet schools including the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, the Royal Ballet School and Ellison Ballet. They perform in major ballet companies worldwide including American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Miami City Ballet, the Mariinsky Theatre, Kiev State Ballet Theatre, the Mikhailovsky Theatre, the Bolshoi Theatre, the Royal Ballet, Paris State Opera Ballet, and Boston Ballet.

OKSANA KONOBEYEVA - a former soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet Grigorovich Studio Company & American Ballet Theatre. Ms. Konobeyeva is a graduate of the Novosibirsk State Choreographic College (Siberia). She was the First Prize winner at the Vaganova Prix (1990) and Luxembourg International Ballet competition (1994). Ms. Konobeyeva is certified in Pilates Mat, and she is also an ABT's National Training Curriculum Certified Ballet Teacher in Primary through Level 7. With more than 15 years of teaching experience, Ms. Konobeyeva is teaching all levels including adults.