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Russian-born Inessa
Plekhanova graduated from The State Vaganova
Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia
receiving a Master of Fine Arts in
Performance and a Master of Arts in Dance
Education. She was a soloist and principal
dancer with Estonian National Ballet for
three years and for seven years with
Colorado Ballet (Denver, CO). She has
performed principal and solo roles in
The Nutcracker, Don Quixote, Swan Lake, La
Sylphide, Raymonda, Giselle, La Bayadere,
Theme and Variations, Serenade, Apollo,
Concerto Barocco, Sleeping Beauty, Rubies,
Configurations, and many others.
Ms. Plekhanova taught at the
Vaganova Ballet Academy for two years on an
assistantship, the College of Dance and
Choreography in Tallinn (the official school
of Estonian National Ballet) for three
years, and at the Academy of Colorado Ballet
from 1991-2005. Ms. Plekhanova was invited
as a guest teacher and choreographer to
numerous dance festivals, summer programs
and teacher’s seminars throughout the former
Soviet Union, United States, Yugoslavia, and
Japan. From 1999-2005 Ms. Plekhanova was an
Artistic Director of The Academy of Colorado
Ballet and Artistic Director of Colorado
Ballet II where she has staged and coached
La Bayadere, Paquita, Chopiniana,
Don Quixote, and other works
from classical ballet repertoire. Inessa
Plekhanova has won the “Outstanding Teacher
Award” from the Youth America Grand Prix
International Ballet Competition in 2001,
2002, and 2003. |
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In May of 2005 Ms. Plekhanova
accepted assistant professorship in the
Radford University’s Department of Dance as
Director of the Ballet Program and Artistic
Director of RU Ballet Theatre. Under the
direction of Inessa Plekhanova, RU Ballet
Theatre presented an Evening of Ballet
for which she staged “The Kingdom of
the Shades” from La Bayadere,
as well as other excerpts from classical and
contemporary ballet repertoire. Last
December Ms. Plekhanova choreographed and
produced the new full-length
Nutcracker for RU Ballet Theatre.
In February of 2006, Ms.
Plekhanova established the Radford
University Ballet Youth program known as
RUBY to provide serious high-quality ballet
training and performance opportunities to
aspiring young dancers in the region.
This year the RUBY will offer
its first International Summer Intensive
Program.
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