Founders

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Graduate of Bolshoi Ballet Academy 2017

Bachelor of Choreography Kiev Choreographic College 2025

Former Soloist and Artist

-United Ukranian Ballet

-National Ballet of Romania

-State Opera of Ukraine, Dnipro

-Gelsey Kirkland NYC

-State Opera of Russia, Astrakhan

Performed on stages all around the world in Ukraine, Russia, Australia, USA, Singapore, China, France, England, Belgium, Denmark, Poland,  Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany,  Romania, Spain, and Italy

Guest Artist Royal Opera House 2022

Staged Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty for Europe Tours 2022

Royal Ballet School Inspire Program 2023

Repertoire:   

❖ ‘‘Swan Lake’~ Odette/Odile, Pas de Trois, Big Swans, Small Swans, Brides, Spanish, Neapolitansky, Hungarian(Petipa/ Ivanov)  

❖ ‘‘Giselle Premiere’~ Peasant Pas De Deux 

(Ratmansky) 

❖ ‘‘The Nutcracker’~ Clara, Sugarplum, Snowsflakes soloist, French, Arabian, Spanish, Waltz of the Flowers soloist, (Petipa/Ivanov) 

❖ ‘‘Don Quixote’~ Dulcinea, Seguidilla, Fantango, Gitana,  (Petipa) 

❖ ‘‘Giselle’~ Giselle, Myrtha, Giselle’s Friends 

(Perrot/Coralli) 

❖ ‘‘Sleeping Beauty’ ~ Lilac Fairy, Bluebird Pas De Deux (Petipa) 

❖ ‘‘La Bayadere’ ~ Pas D’Action, Gamzatti (Petipa) 

❖ ‘‘Esmeralda’ ~ ‘Fleur De Lys’ in Grand Pas Des Fleurs,  Grand Pas de Deux (Perrot) 

❖ ‘‘Diana Y Acteon Variation and Pas De Deux’ (Vaganova) 

❖ ‘‘Prince Igor’ ~ Polovtsian Dances (MFokin) 

❖ ‘‘Snow White’ ~Demi Soloist (Litvinov)  

❖ ‘‘Le Syplhides’ ~ Soloist (Taglioni) 

❖ ‘‘Paquita’ ~ Demi Soloist (M. Petipa) 

❖ ‘‘The Great Waltz’(Z. Kavats) 

❖ ‘‘The Forest Song’ Ukrainian Ballet (Litvinov) 

❖ ‘‘Cinderella’ ~ (Litvinov) 

❖ ‘‘Aleko’~(Yaremenko)  

❖ ‘‘Carmina Burana’ ~(Nikolaev) 

❖ ‘‘Turandot’ (Sokolov) 

❖ ‘‘Aida’(Sokolov) 

❖ ‘‘Carmen Jose’ (Porokhovnyk) 

❖ ‘‘1001 nights’ (Voskresenskaya) 

❖ ‘‘Romeo and Juliet’ ~(Sokolov) 

❖ ‘‘Night Before Christmas’ ~ (Nikolaev) 

❖ ‘“Carmen” ~ (K. Uralsky) 

❖ ‘‘Coppellia’ ~ (Saint-Leon) 

❖ ‘“Le Conservatoire” (Bournonville) ~ with Royal Danish Ballet 

❖ ‘“La Fille Mal Gardee” (Ashton)  

Contemporary Roles 

‘Shadows Bride’  (Angell) 

‘Four Seasons’ Ensemble (Bowman) 

Contemporary Ensemble (L. Sigh) ~  

with Royal Danish Ballet 

‘Calm Tide’ (Guzman) ~ with Joffrey  Ballet

‘Metronem (Ohad Naharin)

Graduate of Bishkek Choreographic School 2019

Bachelor of Choreography Kiev Choreographic College 2025

Former Soloist and Artist

-United Ukranian Ballet

-National Ballet of Romania

-State Opera of Ukraine, Dnipro

-State Opera of Russia, Astrakhan

Performed on stages all around the world in Ukraine, Russia, Australia, Belgium,  Singapore, Kyrgyzstan, Arabia, Kazakhstan, France, England, Netherlands, Switzerland, Romania, Germany,  Poland, Spain, and Italy

Guest Artist Royal Opera House 2022

Repertoire:  

❖ ‘Giselle’ (J. Perrot, J. Coralli) ~ Albrecht, Hans, Peasant Pas De  Deux

❖ Sleeping Beauty (M.Petipa) ~ Bluebird Pas De Deux, 4  Cavaliers 

❖ ‘The Nutcracker’ (M. Petipa, L. Ivanov) ~ Prince, French Soloist, Spanish Soloist, Waltz Soloist,  Harlequin Doll 

❖ ‘Swan Lake’ (G. Balanchine) ~ Siegfried 

❖ Swan Lake’ (M. Petipa, L. Ivanov) ~ Pas De Trois, Spanish, Hungarian 

❖ La Bayadere (M. Petipa) ~ Indian Dance Soloist 

❖ ‘Coppelia’ (A. Saint Leon) ~ Variation 

❖ ‘Diana Y Acteon’ Variation (A. Vaganova) 

❖ Le Talisman (M. Petipa) ~ Variation 

❖ ‘Don Quixote’ (M. Petipa) ~ Minkus Variation, 

Seguidilla, Fantango, Toreodors 

❖ ‘Paquita’ (M.Petipa) ~ Variation 

❖ ‘Le Corsaire’ (J. Mazilier) ~ Pas De Deux and Variation 

❖ ‘Esmeralda’ (J. Perrot) ~ Variation 

❖ ‘Taras Bulba’ (R. Zakharov) ~ Gopak Variation 

❖ ‘Snow White’ ~ Gnomes (A.Litvinov)  

❖ ‘Night Before Christmas’ ~ Ball soloist  

(O.Nikolaev) 

❖ ‘The Forest Song’ Ukrainian Ballet (A.Litvinov)  

❖ ‘Prince Igor’ ~ Polovtsian Dances (M.  Fokin) 

❖ ‘The Great Waltz’(Z. Kavats) 

❖ ‘Cinderella’ ~ (A. Litvinov) 

❖ ‘Aleko’~ Gypsy (V. Yaremenko) 

❖ ‘Carmina Burana’ ~(O. Nikolaev) 

❖ ‘Turandot’ (A. Sokolov) 

❖ ‘Aida’(O. Sokolov) 

❖ ‘Carmen Jose’ (Y. Porokhovnyk) 

❖ ‘1001 nights’ (L. Voskresenskaya) 

❖ ‘Romeo and Juliet’ ~ (O.  Sokolov)

Simon Kazantsev attended the famous Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, where he successfully completed his dance training in eight years. Upon graduation, he joined the Stanislavsky Ballet, one of Moscow's leading companies. He toured internationally with that troupe, dancing solo roles in such classics as Giselle, Swan Lake, La Esmeralda, Le Corsaire, and the Nutcracker, as well as performing prominent roles in contemporary ballets. At the same time, he attended the Bolshoi Ballet Academy College, where he earned a BA in Pedagogy and Dance and became an assistant to the late professor Alexander Bondarenko, who was a leading authority on ballet technique and coach to many principal dancers of the Bolshoi Theater.

In 2003, Mr. Kazantsev came to the United States to join the Boston Ballet. In America, he discovered that his real passion was teaching.

Viki Bromberg Psihoyos was accepted into George Balanchine's School of American Ballet at age eight, where she trained with the Master’s international team of teachers; Felia Doubrovska, Alexandra Danilova, Muriel Stuart, Helene Dudin, Antonina Tumkovsky, Andre Eglevsky, and Stanley Williams. Balanchine then invited Psihoyos to join the New York City Ballet at age 17.

Psihoyos performed for thirteen years, appearing in over 70 works by  Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, August Bournonville, Ruth Page, Peter Martins, Richard Tanner, Frederick Ashton, John Taras and others. She appears in film and television works of The Cage, Four Temperaments, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Serenade, The Merry Widow, Chaconne, and others.

Psihoyos has been teaching widely since leaving the stage, on faculties and as a guest teacher for academies, universities and professional companies globally. She specializes in the refined technique and musicality that the Balanchine repertoire demands. She has taught, staged and choreographed in Florence, Budapest, Paris, Estonia, Trinidad, West Indies in addition to working with Orlando Ballet, Colorado Ballet, Ballet West, Cincinnati University, University of Western Michigan, Atlanta Ballet, Brigham Young University, Boulder Ballet and The Flint School of Performing Arts.

She also stages Balanchine works through the The George Balanchine Trust for companies, schools and universities. 

 Bella Rachinskaia is a ballet master, classical choreographer and maItre of ballet. She was a student and was awarded an honors degree at the State Academy of Ballet in Perm. She then moved into Leningrad where she began a professional career in classical dance at the Theatre. In 1972, she began to perform as the main dancer for the troupe “Choreographical Miniatures” directed by Leonid Yakobson and she danced every role in the classical repertory, as well as Yakobson’s choreographic inventions. The company received critical acclaim on tours around the world for her performance in the roles.

She then went to start her career as a choreographer.  She choreographed for world renowned companies like the Hungarian State Opera, Vienna State Ballet, La Scala, and Dutch National Ballet. 

Staging ballets:

Sleeping Beauty, La Sylphides, Esmeralda, Nacht des Ballets and Fanny Elssler.

Yannick received his dance education at the Paris Opera Ballet School and the National Conservatoire of Paris.

He danced as a principal dancer with the Ballet de Bonn, the Royal Ballet of Flanders, the Rome Opera Ballet and the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Over his career he has been the recipient of the following prizes:

• 1st Prize of the Conservatoire of Paris (1981)
• Gold Medal at the International Competition in Paris (1987)
• Positano and Leonide Massine Award (1995)
• Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2021)

In 2011 he choreographed for the Istanbul State Ballet a two act ballet, “the sufferings of young Werther” (Göethe), music by Frederic Chopin , which was premiered later in May 2014 by The Greek National Ballet.

He has also choreographed for the Junior Ballet of Antwerp “Concerto con brio” music by Shostakovich and in 2021, his “Shostakovich pas de deux” was premiered by the National Ballet Company of Portugal.

He is today an International Guest Ballet Teacher and is currently working with some of the following companies:

• Dresden Semper Oper Ballet
• Royal Swedish Ballet
• Royal Ballet of Flanders
• Houston Ballet
• Béjart Ballet Lausanne
• Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
• Bolshoï theater Moscow
• Ballet du Capitole de Toulouse
• Zurich Ballet

Yannick also works with the following schools and academies:

• Summer course Centre Ecole Superieure de Danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower
• Houston Ballet Academy
• Académie Princesse Grace de Monaco
• Royal Swedish Ballet School

 Siner Gonenc Boquin joined the State Opera and Ballet of Izmir (Turkey) in 1988 and performed with the company until 2004. In 2005-2009 she worked there as ballet mistress, associate director and then artistic director. Since 2005 she has been working with Yannick Boquin as his assistant and studying his method and style of teaching. She staged the ballet “The sufferings of young Werther” choreographer Yannick Boquin in 2011 for the Istanbul State ballet and later in 2014 for the Greek National Ballet. 

 Siner currently works as a guest teacher for some of the following companies and academies: Béjart Ballet Lausanne, The Houston Ballet Company,
Semperoper Dresden, Birmingham Royal Ballet, National Ballet of Mexico, National Ballet of Portugal, Estonian National Ballet, National Ballet of Croatia,
Gauthier Dance Stuttgart, Dortmund Ballet, Junior Ballet Antwerp, Compagnie Choreographique François Mauduit, Junior Ballet Arles, Houston Ballet
Academy, Royal Ballet School of Antwerp, Royal Conservatory Den Hague, Escuela Superior de Musica y Danza de Monterrey, ESDC Rosella Hightower (Ecole
Supérieure de Danse de Cannes), Royal Swedish Ballet School, Annarella Sanchez Ballet School, Jean W.Wong Ballet School in Hong Kong, Casa de Ballet
Bucharest.  

Sara Knight is the Founder and Artistic Director of Chevalier Ballet, Chevalier Ballet Conservatory, and the SLK Ballet School. A graduate of England's Royal Ballet School, an Associate of the Royal Academy of Dance ( A.R.A.D.), graduate of the Royal Ballet School Teacher's Training Course ( R.B.S. Dip. TTC.) and first British graduate of Russia's Vaganova (Kirov) Ballet Academy.  

Ms. Knight became a soloist with the Leningrad State Ballet Theatre and the Russian Ballet of St. Petersburg. In Western Europe, she danced with England's Northern Ballet Theatre, Swansea’s Ballet Russe, and was a principal dancer with the European Ballet of London. In the USA, Ms Knight has guested with Boston Ballet and as a principal dancer with Configuration Dance and Rebecca Rice Dance Company.

Ms. Knight has been invited to teach worldwide including Boston Ballet Company, Boston Ballet School, Tulsa Ballet Center for Dance Education, Cincinnati Ballet School, Laban Centre London, Northern Ballet Theatre of England, Arts Educational School of the UK, Boston Conservatory, The International Festival of France and most recently Masters of Ballet at Sadler’s Wells Theatre and English National Ballet School, both in London. Ms. Knight has also served as Ballet Mistress for both London's Central School of Ballet and Ellison Ballet of NYC. She was the Artistic Director for the Ballet School of Stamford as well as the Co-founder and Artistic Director of the Greenwich Ballet Academy. 

Sara Knight has staged Swan lake for the Ukranian Ballet and Russian Ballet.