Denton Ballet Academy

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Eldar Valiev graduated from the famous Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia, and received additional training at the Kirov Ballet Company. He has more than twenty years of experience as a professional ballet dancer and fifteen years of experience as a ballet master. Eldar has appeared as a principal dancer in numerous ballet companies, including The State Theater of Opera and Ballet of Bashkortostan in Ufa, Eifman Ballet Theater in St. Petersburg, and the Icelandic National Ballet. He has performed leading parts in the ballets Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Giselle, Don Quixote, Coppelia, Les Silphides, The Nutcracker, and many others. Eldar had the privilege to work with famous American choreographers such as Robert La Fosse, William Soleau and Lambros Lambrow. He danced in Iceland, as Frans in Coppelia, in which he partnered with world-renowned Prima Ballerina Assoluta, Eva Evdokimova. He has performed with the stars of Bolshoi and Kirov Ballets in England, Germany, France, Holland, Switzerland, and Iceland and shared the stage with Alexander Bogatyrev, Nadezhda Pavlova and Lyubov Kunakova. Eldar spent thirteen years at the Cumberland County Playhouse in Tennessee.

Lilia Valieva has more than twenty years of experience as a professional ballerina and fifteen years of experience as a ballet mistress. She graduated from the world-renowned Vaganova Ballet Academy, also known as Kirov Ballet School in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1979, she joined The State Theater of Opera and Ballet of Bashkortostan in Ufa, quickly becoming a principal dancer. In 1991, Eifman Ballet Theater invited her to join their company in St. Petersburg. Two years later, Lilia accepted an invitation from Reykjavik, Iceland to dance as a principal dancer with National Icelandic Ballet where she spent three and half years. In 1996, Lilia made her debut in the U.S.A. with a leading role in Giselle as a guest ballerina with Greenville Ballet Company, South Carolina. Her principal roles include Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker, Pas de Quarter, Don Quixote, Les Silphides, Coppelia, Paquita and many others. She toured extensively throughout the Europe with stars of Bolshoi and Kirov ballets.

The Festival Ballet of North Central Texas is a vibrant company with a broad reach. Now in its twenty-sixth year of production, Festival Ballet's The Nutcracker has become a holiday tradition in Denton. The aim of the Festival Ballet is to provide a professional, quality performing experience for its 200-plus cast members and its 5,000-plus audience members. In addition to The Nutcracker, the Festival Ballet presents lecture/demonstration programs to area public schools and other community service performances. Dancers for the company are chosen through open auditions held in August and September each year. The dancers you will see represent thirty communities in the north central region of Texas, as well as dancers from Oklahoma, New York and Hungary. We would like to extend a sincere appreciation and recognition to the area dance schools that make up the Festival Ballet, and their teachers who sent their very best students in order to make this performance of dance a magical one.

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