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

Nina Maria Lucas is the Director of Dance, Artistic Director of the Dance Company and Associate Professor at Wake Forest University. She has been a member of the faculty since 1996. She began her training early in Dayton, Ohio and went on to receive a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance from The Ohio State University. After graduation she continued her training at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, and Martha Graham Studio in New York, and later went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts in Performance and Education from the University of California Los Angeles. As Associate Professor of Dance she brings knowledge from study and performance with Carol Scothorn, Ronald Brown, Shapiro and Smith, Risa Steinberg, Murray Louis, and in the L.A. Art Festival's "The Dance Collective" under the direction of Peter Sellars, producer Neil Barkley. Her teaching experience includes but is not limited to technique (modern/jazz), History and Philosophy of Dance, Dance Practicum (performance, production and repertory), Principles of Conditioning and Strength Training for Dancers-Care and Prevention, Dance Composition, Choreography, Dance Administration, Dance Education and Dance for Children. In May 2000 Ms. Lucas received the "Excellence in Teaching" award presented by the faculty of the North Carolina School of the Arts Dance Department. In February 2001 she was awarded the Reid-Doyle excellence in Teaching Award from Wake Forest University. Ms. Lucas is currently on the summer faculty at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She joined the Kingsport Ballet summer workshop faculty, teaching modern, jazz and seminar in June 2005.