EKATERINA

Artistic Director and Instructor

Ekaterina Dalskaya

Professional ballerina and classical ballet teacher.
At the age of 10, she entered the Saratov State Ballet Academy. After eight years of study, she graduated with honors as a professional ballerina and immediately began working as a soloist at the Saratov Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 1991, she joined the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, where she worked with renowned masters such as Grigorovich, Bessmertnova, Lavrovsky, Kondratieva, and Karelskaya. She also worked with the Imperial Russian Ballet alongside Maya Plisetskaya, Alexei Ratmansky, and others.
In 1998, she graduated with honors as a teacher and choreographer from the Bolshoi Academy in Moscow, having studied classical dance with Sirova and Kuznetsova, *pas de deux* with Zhdanov, character dance with Farmaniyants, and historical dance with Voronina. Subsequently, she attended professional development courses in Vaganova methodology at the Bolshoi Academy in Moscow and the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St. Petersburg.
She has worked as a classical ballet instructor at the Krasnogorsk State Ballet Academy, the Moscow University of Culture and Arts, and the "Young Ballet of Moscow" classical dance school. She also served as a ballet mistress for the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Theatre of Classical Ballet in Moscow.
She is the artistic director of the "Young Ballet of Europe" international dance festival in Yaroslavl.
As a dancer, she performed principal soloist roles in classical ballets (including *Swan Lake*, *Don Quixote*, *The Nutcracker*, *La Bayadère*, *The Sleeping Beauty*, *Raymonda*, *La Fille mal gardée*, *Carmen*, *Boléro*, and *The Golden Age*).