Valentina Pavlova (Principal)
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Valentina studied ballet for 8 years at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow.
After graduation in 1985 she worked as a principal ballet dancer at the Moscow Festival Theatre.
In 1991 Valentina was invited by a prominent Russian choreographer Vladimir Vasiliev to join the
State Kremlin Ballet of Russia as a soloist and principal dancer.
Her repertoire includes: Swan Lake, Cinderella, Nutcracker,
Giselle, Don Quixote, Ruslan and Lyudmila, Napoleon Bonaparte, Tom Sawyer, Sleeping Beauty, Paquita,
Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and The Walpurgis Night.
During her career, Valentina toured worldwide across Great Britain, Japan, Ireland, France, Spain, Australia, New Zealand,
Italy, Taiwan, China, Norway and Canary Islands.
Valentina has worked with prominent Russian choreographers like Yuri Grigorovich, Vladimir Vasiliev,
Andrei Petrov and Marius Liepa.
Valentina has taught ballet classes for professionals when she worked in the Kremlin Ballet and in
Moscow Ballet La Classique. Valentina also conducted rehearsals. She enjoys working with children, and has
extensive experience teaching youngsters in Russia, Japan and
Great Britain.
In 2004
Valentina choreographed a composition from ‘Swan Lake’ with students from Charles Campbell Secondary School.
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Nadejda Vassilieva
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Ms Vassilieva is a graduate of the Vaganova Academy in St Petersburg, class of 1980.
She graduated under the direction of Madame Tatiana Alexandrovna Udalenkova as an Artiste du Ballet.
Ms Vassilieva commenced her career as a ballerina in Ekaterinburg in the State Ballet Theatre.
Later she danced with the Classical Ballet Company in St Petersburg appearing in solo roles in Giselle,
Swan Lake, Les Sylfides and other similar classical repertoire.
From 1986 to 1999 she was a soloist with Rimsky Korsakov Opera and Ballet Theatre in St Petersburg.
With this company under the artistic direction of Nikita Dolgushin she danced a wide repertoire of
classical and neo classical roles including the principal role La Spectre de la Rose, Le Corsaire,
The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker and Esmeralda. She has toured extensively in Germany, Greece,
Italy, Turkey, Israel and Japan.
In 1997 she danced the principal role in opera The Demon by Rubinstein for the Bregenzer Festepiele in Austria.
A role specifically created for her by the Australian choreographer Ross Coleman. For her career farewell performance
she danced this role again at Zurich Opernhaus in 1999.
Since retiring Ms Vassilieva has begun teaching and her work includes classes for Madame Gora's school in Zurich,
L&R MacKay Masterclasses, Ecole Classique in Sydney and private lessons.
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Aidan Kane Munn
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Aidan Kane Munn is enjoying a diverse and successful career working with many fantastic people and outstanding artists. He has performed and created work for people through out Australia, Asia and Europe.
Aidan graduated from the Australian Ballet School in 1989, joining the Australian Dance Theatre in the following year. Aidan then went on to work with Leigh Warren and Dancers as a founding member, performing in many of their productions over the next decade.
During this time Aidan also worked as freelance performer and choreographer, positions include; Associate Director of Outlet Dance Youth Ensemble “Outrageous”, Associate Director for Urban Myths production “Project X”, performed and choreographed for the Paul Cox film “The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky” and choreographed for the South Australian independent Dance Collective.
Aidan was also involved in two self devised performance groups, “Da Whyze Guize” dance theatre with in the Jazz idiom performing regularly at the cargo club and cabaret venues around Adelaide. The second, Street Theatre Group “Buzz” a hip-hop circus, which performed regularly in Australian festivals as well as having two successful tours of the European Festival Circuit including Glastonbury Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
In 2004 Aidan retired from performing and focused his attention on teaching dance and creating dance works. Aidan regularly teaches for SACE dance students, AC arts, Terry Simpson Studios, Tabor College, Flinders University, Ausdance, Kurruru indigenous youth arts centre and The Australian Dance Theatre.
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