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.

CHILDREN'S CLASSES/WORKSHOPS are led by Oksana Konobeyeva - a former soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet Grigorovich Studio Company and the American Ballet Theatre. A graduate of the Novosibirsk State Choreographic College, Ms. Konobeyeva was a First Prize winner at the Vaganova Prix in 1990, and a First Prize winner at the Luxembourg International Ballet competition in 1994. Ms. Konobeyeva has been teaching for more than 15 years. She is Pilates Mat Certified, and is an American Ballet Theatre's Certified Ballet Teacher in Primary through Level 7.