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Valentina Kozlova's Dance Conservatory Company will hold its Spring Concert, April 16 at Symphony Space, in a program of excerpts from the great classical ballets Paquita, La Bayadere, Flames of Paris, and Grand Pas Classique, as well as the jazzy contemporary dances of Margo Sappington. Guests Vitali Krauchenko of American Ballet Theatre and Albert Davydov of New Jersey Ballet will join Kozlova's students, three of whom are medalists at recent ballet competitions in Berlin and Russia.
Kozlova, a former principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and New York City Ballet, has established herself as a major teacher of the Vaganova technique and coach of the great classics. The program will include excerpts from ballets which Kozlova learned and danced with the Bolshoi Ballet: Paquita, Don Quixote, La Bayadere, Flames of Paris, and Victor Gsovsky's Grand Pas Classique to music by Auber.
The students are also well versed in contemporary ballet and will also appear in Night and Day, a very contemporary ballet to the Cole Porter favorite by frequent guest choreographer Margo Sappington, former principal dancer with the Joffrey Ballet and the original dancer/choreographer of Broadway's Oh! Calcutta!.
Kozlova's students have distinguished themselves in ballet competitions around the world.
Sarah Steele, who will dance Gamzatti in the excerpt from La Bayadere, will give her first performance since receiving the Gold Medal/Junior Division, in the February 2011 TanzOlymp competition in Berlin. Her partner will be guest artist Albert Davydov, principal dancer with the New Jersey Ballet;
Veronika Verterich, whose parents are both dancers from Russia, will dance the Auber Grand Pas Classique and Sappington's Night and Day. Her partner will be guest artist Vitali Krauchenka, a member of American Ballet Theatre. Veronika was a bronze medalist in Yuri Grigorovich's 2010 Ballet Competition in Sochi Russia;
Alicia Fotino, recipient of a Bronze Medal/Student Division at the 2011 TanzOlymp competition in Berlin, will dance the Flames of Paris pas de deux with Albert Davydov.
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