About our Directors and choreographers
Vladislav Kuramshin -
Director and founder of the Academy, choreographer and leading teacher, St. Petersburg, Russia
CV Vladislav Kuramshin
1983 - Graduated from the Leningrad Academic Choreographic School named
by A. Vaganova (now - Vaganova Russian Ballet Academy).
1983 - Ballet dancer at the Kirov State Academic Ballet Theatre company
(Mariinsky Theatre), Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
1984 to 1986 - Principal dancer of the "Contemporary Ballet Theatre" (Academic Ballet Theatre of
Boris Eifman)
1986 to 1997 - Principal dancer of the A. Makarov’s Academic Theatre of Ballet
1994 to present - Founder and Director of “Ballet and Theatre School named by
Jacobson” (now – Vladislav Kuramshin's Academy of Classical Russian Ballet, St. Petersburg).
2005 to present - Founder and artistic director of Ballet Theatre "Choreographic Miniatures".
2010 - 2012 Vladislav Kuramshin and Tatiana Petrova 3 times gave master-classes in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and staged there children ballet "Snow White & 7 Dwarfs" in 2012.
2012 to present - Founder and Director of "Young Russia Grand Prix / Anna Pavlova"
International Ballet Competition
2015 to present - Founder and President of "Anna Pavlova" Foundation, The Netherlands and Academy of Classical Russian Ballet The Hague
2005 to present Vladislav Kuramshin together with Tatiana Petrova created and staged in St. Petersburg, Russia the following ballet performances for children and adults:
"Three Little Pigs"
"Snow White & 7 Dwarfs"
"Snow Queen"
"The Nutcracker"
"Swan Lake"
"Little Red Riding Hood"
"Crazy Dolls or the New Tin Soldier"
Grand Pas "Paquita"
Musical "Small Cafe"
2014 to present Vladislav Kuramshin together with Tatiana Petrova created and staged in The Hague, Netherlands the following ballet performances for children and adults:
"Three Little Pigs"
"Snow White & 7 Dwarfs"
"Snow Queen"
"The Nutcracker"
"Swan Lake"
Vladislav Kuramshin several times was a jury member of different International ballet competitions and festivals in Italy, Latvia, Cyprus.
Tatiana Petrova -
Artistic Director of the Academy, choreographer and leading teacher, St. Petersburg, Russia
CV Tatiana Petrova
1989 Graduated from the Moscow State Academy of Choreography
(Bolshoi ballet school)
1989 - 2004 Ballet dancer of the world's leading Bolshoi Ballet company, Moscow
1997 Being a student in 1997, she began her teaching career in her native
Moscow Academy.
2002 Graduated with honours from pedagogical department of the Moscow State
Academy of Choreography (Bolshoi Ballet Academy).
2008 Teacher, choreographer, assisted in the restoration of dance scenes
"Polish ball" from the opera “Ivan Susanin”, choreography by R. Zakharov
at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia
2009 - 2014 Tatiana gave summer master classes in Connecticut (2009) and New York City
(2010-2014) within Bolshoi Ballet Summer Intensive BBSI program
2010 - 2012 Tatiana and Vladislav Kuramshin 3 times gave master-classes in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and staged there children ballet "Snow White & 7 Dwarfs" in 2012.
2010 Tatiana Petrova gave master - classes (classical and character dance) in
«Greenwich ballet Academy» (Greenwich, USA) .
2011 Tatiana Petrova gave master - classes (classical and character dance) at
the Royal Ballet School ( Antwerpen , Belgium).
2011 Tatiana Petrova graduated with honours from the second higher education
in graduate school of Bolshoi Ballet Academy in 2011 and is going to
defend her thesis about character dances.
2003 to present Artistic Director, leading teacher and a choreographer of
Vladislav Kuramshin Russian Ballet Academy.
2005 to present Leading soloist, teacher, coach and choreographer of Ballet theatre
«Choreographic Miniatures», Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
2012 to present Founder and Artistic Director of International ballet competition «Young Russia
Grand Prix / Anna Pavlova».
2005 to present Tatiana Petrova together with Vladislav Kuramshin created and staged in St. Petersburg, Russia the following ballet performances for children and adults:
"Three Little Pigs"
"Snow White & 7 Dwarfs"
"Snow Queen"
"The Nutcracker"
"Swan Lake"
"Little Red Riding Hood"
"Crazy Dolls or the New Tin Soldier"
Grand Pas "Paquita"
Musical "Small Cafe"
2014 to present Tatiana Petrova together with Vladislav Kuramshin created and staged in The Hague, Netherlands the following ballet performances for children and adults:
"Three Little Pigs"
"Snow White & 7 Dwarfs"
"Snow Queen"
"The Nutcracker"
"Swan Lake"
OUR GUEST TEACHERS:
David Vermeulen - teacher and coach, The Netherlands
Lotte Vermeulen - teacher and coach, The Netherlands
Federica Fasano - teacher and coach, Italy / Spain
Maria Voloshnijuk - teacher and coach, Russia
Regina Strokina - teacher, coach and choreographer, Russia
