2016 Ballet Program Faculty
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Nina Danilova studied for nine years at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in Saint Petersburg, Russia. After graduation, she joined the world famous company of the Kirov Ballet and later danced with the Moscow State Ballet Theatre. While performing, Danilova continued her education, graduating from the Russian University of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in Moscow, and becoming a professional teacher, ballet mistress, and contributing editor for the magazine Soviet Ballet. She was also choreographic editor for the book Thirty Classical Ballets from Russian Choreographers, published in Moscow and around the world. In 1991, Danilova was invited to Pacific Northwest Ballet to teach and joined the school faculty. In 1996, she became a faculty member of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where she continues to work to this day. In 2014, Oxford University Press in New York City began publishing Danilova’s book Eight Female Classical Ballet Variations.