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The Secrets of the Vaganova Method
Taught to you first hand.
This course offers special, individual, short, intensive and effective sessions in the Vaganova technique. This technique offers an extraordinary system to take control of your body. You will develop the knowledge of how to use your body in order to dance elegantly, with expression, yet without injuries, like the best Russian dancers do.
The Vaganova technique will allow you to learn very difficult technical elements with no risk of injury, even over time. Using this technique your lines will improve for your muscles will decrease in size and weight, yet increase in power. After completing this course your body will be full of energy, very flexible, elastic and light. You will always be ready to dance. The Vaganova technique applies to both contemporary and classical dance. It is designed for both serious students and teachers.
During the two week course you will study about 4-5 hours a day and 6 days a week. Every day will include one private or semiprivate session. In addition students will watch others study to better understand the principals of the Vaganova method. Teachers will teach practice sessions of the methods they are learning. There are also additional private and semiprivate sessions using the Vaganova technique, such as; rehearsals, points, stretching, character, as well as contemporary dancing.
Also available to students is a large selection of rare and exclusive video tapes from Russia. Students are encouraged to watch them both alone and with professional explanation. This is a wonderful way to add new pieces to your repertoire.
After completion of this course additional training may be available to gifted students. This is dependent upon my schedule.
About the InstructorXenia Kosorukov graduated from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy as a student of the former Kirov ballerina Galina Kirillova. Ms Kosorukov danced with the Bolshoi Ballet and continued her studies under the guidance of these teachers; Elisaveta Gerdt, Assaf Messerer, and Alexei Varlamov. She also Studied teaching methods and choreography at the State Institute of Theatrical Art in Moscow. In addition to teaching dance, Ms Kosorukov worked with young figure skaters as an instructor and as a choreographer of both classical and character dances.
In 1990-1996 Ms Kosorukov was a guest teacher at different Ballet schools in the USA. In June 1994 she was teaching at the International Dance School in conjunction with the USA International Ballet Competition in Jackson Mississippi. Currently she works privately with her students in New Orleans, preparing and staging contemporary and classical numbers for their performances.
More information about this exclusive program can be obtained by phone, 7 days a week, 8 - 10pm central time at (504) 899-2864 or E-MAIL
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