Tatiana Stepanova
Tatiana Viktorovna Stepanova, also Tetiana Stepanova, is a Ballet master, choreographer, ballet dancer, critic, essayist and historian of the dance.
Biography
Tatiana Stepanova began her ballet training in the Special School of Ballet of Odesa as a student of Klaudia Vasina, who was a disciple of the great Russian dancer and teacher Agrippina Vaganova. She completed her dance training at the State School of Ballet and Choreography of Minsk² where she was a pupil of Vera Shvetsova, who danced in the Maly Theatre of Saint Petersburg and in the Great Theater of Opera and Ballet of Riga.Stepanova graduated in Choreographic Art from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory³, Russia, where she studied with Gabriella Komleva, Nikita Dolgushin and Nicolai Boyarchikov, great dancers of the Mariinsky Theatre and of the Mikhaylovsky Theatre both in Saint Petersburg.
She danced as the soloist in the Odesa Opera and Ballet Theater¹ and in the Great Theater of Ballet of Minsk².
Since 1985, is a Teacher of Ballet, giving classes in Odesa, Saratov and Saint Petersburg, Madrid, Valencia, Puertollano and Lugo and Ashiya and Nishinomiya
Founder and artistic director of the Institute of Investigation and Studies of Dance in Madrid.
Stepanova has published numerous articles of criticism in newspapers and weeklies in Ukraine, Russia, Spain and United States.
As a teacher intent on purity and on the maintenance of choreographic heritage of classical ballet, Stepanova created a short version of The Sleeping Beauty, which best maintains the heritage of Marius Petipa in the steps that are conserved as well as in those that are added in his style. This version premiered December seven, 2008, in the Hyogo Performing Arts Center4, under the title of Sleeping Beauty Suite.
Currently, Tatyana Stepanova directs the Institute of Investigation and Studies of Dance in Madrid, and is the artistic director of the AIS Ballet Japan in Ashiya.