舞蹈艺术家 芭蕾舞学院
52 S Quinsigamond Ave, Shrewsbury MA 01545 E: info@danceartistsballetacademy.com P:508-925-4112
Our Faculty
Joanna Duncan RTS ARAD Solo Seal
Director Danceartists Ballet Academy.
Joanna is a Master Classical Ballet Teacher with over 30 years teaching experience. Dancers trained by Joanna have performed in American Ballet Theatre, The Royal Ballet Company, Hamburg Ballet, Australian Ballet, Gyor Ballet Company, Hybrid Movement Company, Antigravity, Cirque du Soleil to name just a few. Danceartists Ballet Academy's training program is designed by our Director Joanna Duncan to build confident young dancer's of pristine technique and exceptional artistic quality. As a professional dancer, Joanna performed as Soloist and Principal Dancer with renowned ballet companies including Ballet Europe and as a Teacher Jo0anna has worked alongside esteemed directors and dancers including Bolshoi Ballet's Yuri Grigorovich and Prima Ballerina Absolute Natalia Besmetnova.
Joanna is a registered teacher of the Royal Academy of Dance and completed all the RAD Examinations and was awarded the Solo Seal at age 15. She is an invited member of the International Dance Council, Paris and a member and guest speaker of IADMS The International Association for Dance Medicine & Science. Joanna gained her Vaganova Teacher training qualifications from Mischa Slavensky and Peggy Willis-Arnio. She has been arranging international pre-professional ballet student audition tours to many of the world's leading international and national ballet company schools since 1996. As Vice President of the Society of Dance Art Joanna arranged some of the largest Master Series of Dance classes for teachers and students from all over the country. Joanna is the Children's Rehearsal Director for the Nutcracker!Magical Christmas Ballet at the Boch Center Wang Theatre Boston and Shubert Theater. Her choreography has won numerous awards, including the prestigious International Fred Astaire Choreographic Competition Gold Medal. Joanna is an education consultant to the University of New South Wales coaching Teachers on the use abstract thought in choreographic processes.
Francoise Voranger
Francoise is a renowned Virtuoso Performance Artist, the Founding Director and Creator of NYC Hybrid Movement Company, Owner Hybrid Movement Creative Lab, Animator, Creative Show Director. Creator of the Movement as Metaphor Aerial Acrobatic Training Program and Executive Director of Hybridity.org.
Francoise is an invited member of the International Dance Council, CID, Paris. She trained on full scholarship at the Royal Ballet Upper School London UK and holds the distinguished honor of performing in the Gala of the Stars of Benois de la Danse at Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Russia.
Françoise has performed with The Royal Ballet, London, The Australian Ballet Company, Hamburg Ballet Company, Ballet NY, AntiGravity, the Royal Gala London, Cirque du Soleil, among many others.
Françoise is an Elizabeth Streb EACP STREB Awardee, her choreographic works are renowned for their ability to touch the heart, to search or reveal and have been performed at NYC City Center, NYC Lincoln Center, Bolshoi Ballet Theater Moscow, NYC SummerStage, New Victory Theater New 42nd Street, NYC Maker Fair, Marcus Garvey Theatre, Burning Man and Marquette, Amsterdam Film Festival, to name a few. She has choreographed, Directed and performed in productions including Hybrid Movement Company's Nowhere-Now Here 1 - 7 / Fluid of Dusk / Clara's Dream / Blue Moon / Never Ending Story Little Cinema Immersive winner of Best In NYC, Eudaemonia Lincoln Center and Burning Man, Schedule 40, Broadway NYC, Winner of 3 Editors choice Awards, Black Rock Orchestra Burning Man, and many more in her busy international performance schedule.
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Irina Vakhromeeva
Irina's graduated with Honors from the renowned Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia. After a successful ballet career as a Soloist and Principal dancer, she received her MFA in Ballet Pedagogy in 2014 and is currently pursuing her PhD at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy.
As a Soloist and Principal dancer, she has toured the globe with esteemed companies such as the Moscow Ballet, Festival Ballet, International Ballet Company, and the Bay Area Houston Ballet and Theatre. Irina is the Founder and Artistic Director of
the Cosmopolitan Ballet Theatre, collaborating with various universities in the United States and Europe..
Throughout her career, Ms. Vakhromeeva has performed principal roles in a wide array of celebrated ballets, including The Nutcracker, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, La Fille Mal Gardée, Don Quixote, Paquita, Italian Capriccio, Flame of Paris, Swan Lake, Corsaire, Cinderella, TheSnow Maiden, The Blue Bird, and many others.
In her roles as a Principal Guest Artist, Artistic Director, Teacher, and Choreographer, Ms.Vakhromeeva has collaborated with various ballet companies, including Kirov Ballet Academy, Washington D.C., Hamilton Ballet in Canada, International Ballet in Taiwan, Krassovska Ballet Jeunesse, and Galveston Ballet, where she has staged productions such as La Bayadère, La Fille Mal Gardée, Napoli, Les Sylphides, Carmen, and her original restaging in The Blue Bird, Solitude, Spring Verse, and Glinka Waltz.
Her deep understanding of classical and contemporary teaching methods and styles has enabled her to nurture countless young dancers. We welcome Irina to our wondeful Danceartists Ballet Academy Faculty.
Nikki Ortiz
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Nikki began exploring movement through dance, rhythmic gymnastics and yoga. In 2015 Nikki won the USA National Yoga Asana Championship under the mentorship of Jared McCann. She has been a performance collaborator with Hybrid Movement Company since 2018 choreographing, performing and working on scenic design, Nikki works as contortionist and hair suspension artist. She believes yoga is a powerful tool for human evolution. Her teaching integrates elements for various yoga traditions and is centered around alignment, precision and form; often emphasizing backbending and flexibility training to help students proper technique to access their body's natural range of motion while developing a healthy approach towards flexibility.
现代舞蹈运动物理
Rick 的早期训练始于踢踏舞，最终扩展到古典芭蕾舞、爵士乐、嘻哈舞和现代舞的专业研究（师从 David Howard、Finis Jhung、Christine Busch、Bruce Marks、Laura Young 和 Geri Houlihan 等老师） ). 他还接受了其他学科的培训（小号、物理学，后来又接受了吉他研究和各种商业研究）。
在舞蹈和表演领域拥有广泛的职业生涯，包括与奥斯汀芭蕾舞团、波士顿芭蕾舞团和三角洲节日芭蕾舞团一起演出，并在洛杉矶从事嘻哈、爵士乐和芭蕾舞的电影和电视工作三年
（与 Twyla Tharp、Joe Layton 等编舞家以及 Mark Rydell 和 James Brooks 等电影导演合作）。
Rick 于 1993 年加入蒙特利尔的 La La La Human Steps，并与他们一起跳舞并进行了世界巡演 8 年。与许多舞蹈家和音乐家一样，里克也是一位作曲家、舞蹈和杂技编舞家、舞蹈比赛评委，并在全球各地举办各种研讨会。
在过去的 16 年里，他一直是太阳马戏团的一名专门从事舞蹈的星探。瑞克对选角部门的贡献还包括制定新的运营和业务战略，以及创意、创新、内部和外部战略。
Rick 还与国际表演艺术与表演艺术学院密切合作。戏剧 (I-PATH) 通过引领 21 世纪的舞蹈教育。他是英国 Phoenix Associates 的成员，该组织为 6 岁到专业舞者的学生提供机会和大师班。 2016年，他加入太阳马戏团Big Top巡回演出Volta的创作团队，担任杂技编舞。 2018年，他与两位合作伙伴创立了在线编舞市场Choreography Online，并于2019年9月正式上线。 Rick 于 2020 年加入舞蹈艺术家学院。
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Pearl Madnick
Pearl graduated from the 4 year Trainee Program at Joffrey Ballet School NYC in 2024 and is an Honors Alumni of Danceartists Ballet Academy where she trained in the Royal Academy of Dance curriculum under Joanna Duncan. Pearl has trained in Aerial Arts coached by Francoise Voranger since the age of 13. After gaining high Distinction for the RAD Advanced 2 and Repertoire 4 Variations Exams, Pearl was selected as a semi finalist for the Genee, now Fonteyn, International Ballet Competition in 2019 at the Canadian National Ballet and in 2020 she was awarded the prestigious Darcy Bussell International Travel Award. Pearl performs with the Joffrey Concert Group, Hybrid Movement Company, Big Apple Circus, Little Cinema and as a guest Artist with Danceartists Ballet Company. Pearl has performed at the Joyce Theater, NYC Lincoln Center, Toyota Oakdale Theatre, Brooklyn Museum Basquiat The David Bowie Festival to name just a few. Her training background includes Classical Ballet and Pointe, Partnering, Graham, Horton and Hybrid Genre Contemporary Dance, Jazz and Aerial Arts. Pearl is also a 200 hr certified Yoga Instructor and loves sharing this practice with others. Pearl is a graduate of the Joffrey Ballet Trainee Program and holds a BFA in Dance.
Rowen is a Danceartists Ballet Academy Alumni graduating with Honors in 2020. Rowen began her training with Joanna Duncan at age 5 training in the Royal Academy of Dance curriculum gaining high Distinctions in her Advanced 1 and Repertoire 4 Variation Exams. Rowen also trained in the Vaganova Ballet Program in levels 7 and 8. Rowen was Massachusetts Level 8 Artistic Gymnastic State Champion and since age 7 has trained in Aerial Arts and hand balancing under the coaching of Francoise Voranger. Rowen is an apprentice Aerial and Dance performer with Hybrid Movement Company with performance credits including Never Ending Story Immersive, Fool of Potential, Eudaemonia, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Fluid of Dusk, Schedule 40 Broadway, Career Transitions for Dancers, The Actors Fund, IC Center Threads, Clara's Dream Hanover Theatre USA first Aerial Youth Nutcracker, among many other productions. Rowen is studying towards her Masters Degree and PHD in Chemical Engineering on full scholarship at Suny Purchase.