Gabrielle Perkins, 17, of Oakland has become the only American accepted this year into one of the world’s most prestigious ballet academies: the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Instructor: Elizabeth Ross trained in ballet in Florida, Texas and then in Colorado. She received teacher training in the Russian Vaganova Academy syllabus and has been teaching children and adults ...
No other school can boast the talent that St. Petersburg's Vaganova Ballet Academy has unleashed on the world stage: Pavlova, Nijinsky, Nureyev, and Balanchine, to name just a few. Another alumnus, ...