METHOD OF TEACHING CLASSICAL BALLET
FOR ADVANCED CLASSES
BOLSHOI ACADEMY TEACHER TRAINING SEMINAR
April 9-13, 2025
YEAR 6, ADVANCED CLASSES,
VAGANOVA SYLLABUS (15-16 y.o.), ONLINE
Live from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy Studios
15:00-16:30* Wednesday-Friday; (April 9, 10 and 11, 2025)
15:00-18:00* Saturday (April 12, 2025)
16:00-19:00* Sunday; (April 13, 2025)
*UTC/GMT +3 hrs
- Bolshoi Ballet Academy curriculum
- Practical classes with Academy’s full-time faculty methodologist
- Live demonstration by Academy’s students
- Simultaneous translation in English (Japanese and Spanish by request)
- Q&A after each session
- Official certificate
- Written and video examinations
- Non-certified option available
- A syllabus of the program is included as part of handout
- Original piano accompaniment music recording is included as part of handout
- The seminar’s aim is to reach a systematic, consequent, and methodically complete preparation for the career of ballet teacher by following the professional training Programs of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy of Moscow. This course is taught by Lyudmila Yermakova, the leading teacher of Bolshoi Ballet Academy.
Year 6 Bolshoi Ballet Academy Training.
Barre, Center, Allegro, Pointe work
Program Description
Year 6 training (the first level of the Advanced classes) program focuses on the development of tours in grand poses from various positions. Teachers ensure the intensive work on the combined rotations on demi-pointe and pointe on the spot and travelling (starting to include two tours in grand poses or pirouettes).
Year 6 training includes the extended adagio sequences with the use of body tilts, grand fouetté, en tournant, various types of rotations. The battery jumps technique becomes more complicated. Students work on big jumps from different positions and movements. In this level of training the teachers continue to identify and develop individual abilities of their students and develop musicality and expressiveness in their technique.
Course Fee: Year 6, Vaganova Method Seminar
Certified Track — $1,000 USD
Access to all course materials, including class music album, Level 2 syllabus and 2 weeks of access to video playback of the course. Gain a certified credential upon completion of a written exam, demonstrating your mastery of this course.
Non-Certified Track — $700 USD
Access all course materials and 24-hour access to video playback of our classes in case you can’t attend them online. No examination.
Course Instructions and Links to Classes
The email with the instructions, course materials, and link to our online classes will be sent to your email address along with the payment confirmation.
Examination and Certification
The participants of the certified tier of the program will be offered an exam and an assignment that will be checked by the Academy teachers.
If the exam is passed successfully, you will receive a certificate of completion signed by the Dean of the Bolshoi Academy, stating your attendance and the result of the exam. The certificate comes in the form of a digital file and will be sent to your email address.
This program is presented by Master Teacher Olga Dozortseva
Olga Dozortseva is a distinguished ballet educator and former soloist with extensive experience in both performance and pedagogy. She graduated from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in 1997 under the guidance of M.K. Leonova. In 2019, she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Choreography, specializing in Ballet Pedagogy, graduating with honors under the mentorship of E.A. Bobrova.
As a ballet soloist with the State Academic Theatre of Classical Ballet under N. Kasatkina and V. Vasilev, Olga Dozortseva performed leading and soloist roles in Don Quixote, Giselle, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, The Rite of Spring, and The Nutcracker and others.
Since 2016, Olga Dozortseva has been a faculty member at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, specializing in Classical Dance. She has conducted masterclasses in the United States and at the Sirius Educational Center in Sochi.
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