Staff - Summer Workshop

 Sergei Gorbatov 
 Rostislav Dzabraev 2008
 Zina Mamedova-Kohoutova 
 Giana Jigarhan 
 Tina Yarborough Liggins 
 Nina Maria Lucas 
 Irina Ushakova 2008
 Vladimir Angelov 2008
 Adriana Dew 2008

Giana Jigarhan is a graduate of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and received a Master Degree in Ballet Instruction, Choreography and Stage Production from the prestigious Moscow University of Theatre Arts having studied with Pr. Marina Semyonova. She also trained for two years as a Ballet Instructor and Choreographer at the Bolshoi Theater and is a member of the Russian Professional Art Association. Ms. Jigarhan was a soloist ballet dancer for fourteen years with the Moscow Ballet Company, Novosibirsk Ballet Theater and the National Ballet Theater in Kirgizia. Her repertoire included the most famous classical ballets such as Swan Lake, Cinderella, Giselle, La Bayadere, Don Quixote, and Sleeping Beauty, as well as ballets by the most prestigious modern Russian choreographers. In the former USSR, Asia and Europe, Ms. Jigarhan’s choreographic credits include concert pieces, one-act ballets, and dances for opera. She has coached both students and artists for ballet competitions and performances. Ms. Jigarhan has taught ballet and coached at many well known institutions including: the Polish National Ballet School, the Moscow Musical Theater, Asami Maki Ballet Company in Japan, the Warsaw Grand Opera of Poland, the Prague National Theater, the National Theater of Korea, the Universal Ballet Company in Korea, the EWHA University Dance Department in Korea, the Washington School of Ballet (Dir. Mary Day) USA, the Kirov Ballet Academy, USA and the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University, USA where she choreographed an original version of the full length ballet Coppelia.