Dance Faculty

PRINCIPAL

Yuliia Shevchenko
Ballet/ Dance DIVISION
Yuliia Shevchenko was born in Kiev, Ukraine. She began her dance training at the age of five and continued her ballet studies at the Kiev State Ballet Academy. After graduation, she joined the State Theatre of Opera and Ballet for Children and Youth in Kiev.Yullia worked throughout Europe as a professional ballet dancer. Her extensive contemporary, classical and character dance repertoire included: The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Harlequinade, Romeo and Juliet, Sacred Spring, Pushkin, Casanova, Carmina Burana, Carmen, Four Seasons, Giselle, and Rasputin, in which she had leading and solo roles. In 2002, after giving birth to her daughter Nikita, she joined the Atlantic Ballet Atlantique Canada Following her extensive professional ballet career, Yuliia has dedicated her time to teaching and youth development. She has been a ballet teacher and choreographer at ballet schools and instructor and artistic consultant for rhythmic gymnastics groups in Europe and Canada. As well, she has offered ballet master classes, workshops and summer schools in British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and New Brunswick.

 

FACULTY

Eldiyar Daniyarov
Intermediate/Senior Ballet
Eldiyar joined Atlantic Ballet Atlantique Canada in 2012. Prior to coming to Canada he was dancing as a soloist with the prestigious Eifman Ballet of St Petersburg. He trained and graduated from the esteemed Kazakh National Academy of Arts and went on as a principal dancer with the National Academic Ballet of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Center of Contemporary Dance and the Crown of Russian Ballet Moscow. Eldiyar also has a degree in Teaching and Choreography from the National Academy of Art in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

 

Stéphanie Audet
Pre-Primary Ballet
Born in Montreal, Stéphanie Audet began her training at l’École supérieure de Ballet du Québec. During her training, Stéphanie had the chance to perform the Balanchine repertory, as well as Swan Lake. She has also been involved in many contemporary new works. In the Company’s original production of PIAF by Igor Dobrovolskiy, she danced the part of Simone “Mômone” Berteaut. Stephanie has also performed in GHOSTS OF VIOLENCE and PHANTOM OF THE OPERA with Atlantic Ballet Atlantique Canada.

 
Olga Petiteau
Pre-Primary Ballet
Trained at the Académie américaine de danse de Paris (AADP) in France. In 2007, Olga was a finalist at the Youth America Grand Prix competition in New York. Subsequently, she joined Ballet Cymru in 2009, where she performed on national and international tours. She has also been involved in the creation and inception of many neoclassical and contemporary pieces. Olga joined Vienna Festival Ballet for one season in 2012. She also joined Les Ballets classiques de Paris in 2012 for their international tour.