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Cynthia Dragoni is a ballet based multidisciplinary artist, director, and dance content creator.
...Read moreCynthia Dragoni is a ballet based multidisciplinary artist, director, and dance content creator.
She is currently on faculty at The Six Compound in Los Angeles, an artistic advisor for Gregory Cianci’s ballet company in Paris France, as well as on the team of The Flying Carpet Festival, an international touring festival bringing dance, music and related arts education and experiences for refugee and displaced children in the Middle East. She is a member of: Conseil International de la Danse inside UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
She creates dance media content through TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and on The Dance Lens Podcast, opening the door to new audiences through stories, history, interviews and behind the scenes. Find her on socials @thedancelens
Formerly a classical dancer working and studying in theatres in Ukraine and St Petersburg, Russia. She has performed in the classics: Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Giselle, La Bayadere, Spartacus, The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty. Followed by a decade performing in NYC where she worked with contemporary companies Henning Rübsam’s Sensedance and Ballets with a Twist.
She founded and directed the Ballet Institute NY in 2013, where she created and ran international ballet summer programs in Bretagne and Paris France, in conjunction with the Conservatoire Mozart in Paris. And where students had classical training alongside theatre/visual arts studies with an eye towards nurturing artists who have the tools to further the development of their art form/s.
She studied at The Rock School for Dance Education, Boston Ballet, Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet and was awarded a place in the the Arts Management / Capacity Building Program at The Kennedy Center.
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Ballet classes at all levels focus on fundamental alignment and full-body coordination. Priority is placed on the quality of each step; to that end, combinations are kept simple so that dancers can be expressive while deeply developing their musicality and control within each movement. This makes her classes ideal for both beginning dancers just getting to know the material and advanced professionals looking to refine and expand their technique.