Master Ballet Class with Valery Lantratov

Master Ballet Class with Valery Lantratov Instructor: Valery Lantratov Start date: Sunday August 19th (One day only!) Time: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM Location: Ballet Studio Attire: Students are required to wear dance shoes in class. Flat ballet shoes are preferred but jazz and other appropriate dance footwear is acceptable. No bare or stocking feet please. Technique classes are not conducted with the students on pointe. Special pointe classes are available on request. If the students have them, character or jazz shoes should be worn for character classes. Traditional ballet attire is appreciated, but not required. Any appropriate dancewear is acceptable. Cost: $40 for Crossroads members and $60 for non-members. Min. # of students: 4 Maximum: 10-15 Course Description: Crossroads is thrilled to welcome Ballet Master Valery Lantratov, who is traveling through the area and has agreed to teach an advanced ballet class at Crossroads. The class is a 1 1/2 hour classical ballet master class, Russian technique, barre and center. We ask that all participating students have taken multiple ballet classes either adult or teens. This class is designed for intermediate to advanced dance students. Valery can teach more than one class but we must fill classes before we add an additional class so students need to sign up immediately at 541-523-5369. Class must be paid for at time of sign up. To receive a refund cancellation must occur 2 weeks prior to the class. We can do a younger student class only if we can get 10 paid tuitions. Contact Crossroads for more information—541-523-5369. If there is no interest in a younger student interest in a separate class we will arrange for parents to bring the younger students to come and sit and watch the advanced class at no charge. Students and parents will need to sit quietly and observe the class. Valery Lantratov, Artistic Director, Russian National Ballet Foundation Valery Lantratov has had a distinguished career as a dancer in the companies of Vladimir Vasiliev, Maya Plitsetskaya and Ekaterina Maximova and international tours with Rudolf Nureyev. Most recently he has made international headlines for his role as Czar Nicholas II in a production of the new ballet Rasputin, with Farouk Ruzimatov of the Marinsky Theater (Kirov) and for successful international tours of Don Quixote and original choreography for the annual festival for the goddess Aphrodite in Cypruss. A graduate of the Moscow Academic Choreographic College, Lantratov was selected as a first soloist with the Moscow Stanislavski Ballet. With the theater he danced principal roles in such ballets as Don Quixote, Copellia and Romeo and Juliet. He has received accolades in the Russian and international press for his strong technique, personality and expressiveness. In 1993, Lantratov began working for the Kremlin Ballet. This same year, he formed the Russian National Ballet Foundation. He has toured as a solo guest artist in such countries as Japan, Germany, Italy, Greece, France, Portugal, Spain and the United States. The Russian National Ballet Foundation has toured in Europe, Asia, The Middle East and the United States. In 1997, Russian president Boris Yeltsin named Valery Lantratov “ People’s Artist of Russia,” the Russian Federation’s highest artistic honor. Mr. Lantratov holds a teaching certificate Russia's renowned National Academy of Theatrical Arts- GITIS.* For three years, Mr. Lantratov served as a guest instructor at the Boston Ballet. With his Russian National Ballet Foundation, Lantratov is able to realize his goal of introducing new audiences throughout the world to some of the finest classical works of Russia. “No matter what might happen between the countries in the world, dance can deliver peace, compassion and art—eternal values.” *GITIS' ballet department was founded in 1946 under A. Gorsky, R. Zakharov and Leonid Lavaovsky of the Bolshoi Ballet with equal state funding to the Bolshoi. It is the only institute in Russia to offer a diploma in choreography and direction for ballet theatre. Its distinguished ballet masters include Vladimir Vassiliev (director of the Bolshoi, retired), Nadja Pavlova (prima ballerina absoluta of the Bolshoi, retired) and Katirina Maximova (prima ballerina absoluta of the Bolshoi, retired).