Uncsa Dance Faculty

Ballet

contemporary

Fanchon Cordell

trainee

  • Harkness Ballet in NY (David Howard and Maria Vegh)
  • Ballet Repertory Company (ABT) soloist


  • Eglevsky Ballet

Laura Martin

work with choreographers
Balanchine, Baryshnikov, de Mille, Tetley, Tudor (Juliad) and Tharp.

trainee as a teacher
Pilates, Gyrotonics, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Cecchetti Council of America and is certified in American Ballet Theatre’s Teacher Training Curriculum.

-a UNCSA Excellence in Teaching Award (an adjunct faculty member at Wake Forest University and as guest faculty for the South Eastern Regional Ballet Association)
-joined the UNC School of the Arts in 1983 after teaching two UNCSA Summer Sessions.

Florida

Washington D.C.

Trainee
Ballet

  • Washington Ballet (Mary Day)
  • Miami City Ballet (Edward Villella)
  • ABT 6 years (Kelvin Maccan)
  • Broadway 2 years "The Phantom of the Opera."
    Contemporary
  • Graham

works with choreographers
Balanchine, Tudor, DeMille, Tharp, Taylor, and Graham

work- Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet (CPYB) – teacher training

Eva Draw

trainiee

  • the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet School
  • the State Academy of Theatrical Arts in Russia.

Dancer career

  • a principal dancer with the Moscow City Ballet, the Stanislavsky Ballet and the Israel Ballet.

Teacher career

  • NBS
  • the Royal Danish Ballet School in Copenhagen, Denmark
  • the Nordic Seminar in Helsinki, Finland
  • judge at the Youth America Grand Prix in New York City

Kira Blazek Ziaii

Trainee

  • Houston Ballet

Career