Please join us in welcoming our wonderful Guest Artists
to THE BALLET SCHOOL this summer! We are truly honored to be able to bring such a high caliber of talent to offer the students of Savannah and surrounding areas!
MARTHA GOODMAN
Photo: Keiko Guest Photography
It is our special pleasure to welcome Ms. Martha Goodman to our studio this summer! In addition to her many international credits in choreography, dance and teaching, Martha is the daughter of the late Kyle Goodman, who was the chief engineer at WTOC before becoming ill, and the late Mrs. Ruth Goodman, a Savannah legend in the world of Ballet and Theater. We are so proud to continue the legacy that was Ruth's with the assistance of her daughter and our mentor, Martha!
Martha Goodman’s experience includes touring with dance companies internationally, teaching and coaching all levels of dancers, as well as staging and performing in such classics as Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker, Les Sylphides, and Pas de Quatre. Other original works have been choreographed specifically for her. Martha has performed in films, television, and on and off Broadway. She studied in New York with Igor Schwetzov, David Howard, Genia Melikova, Maggie Black, and in Paris with Gilbert Meyer of the Paris Opera.
Martha has coached students to the final rounds of the International Ballet Competition and Youth America Grand Prix. As a Southeastern Regional Ballet Association (SERBA) award winner, Ms. Goodman is widely respected for her choreographic works. Martha choreographed Offenbach Suite and Peasant Pas de Sept for the Atlanta Ballet Centre Theater. Both pieces were recognized by SERBA and selected to represent the Southeast Region at the International Ballet Competition in Jackson, MS. Ms. Goodman received The Regional Dance America National Choreography Recognition Award for the year 2005 plus Emerging Choreographers award years earlier. Most recently, Martha’s ballet Festival di Verdi closed the Festival Gala 2010 SERBA.
Before becoming Principal Teacher and Co-Director for the Atlanta Ballet Center Theatre from 1996 to 2006, Martha served as Co-Artistic Director of Ballet Interim in New York, NY, and Co-Artistic Director of Beacon Dance Company in Decatur, GA. She also served for 6 years as Assistant Artistic Director and Ballet Mistress of Ruth Mitchell Dance Theatre in Atlanta, GA
SERGUEI CHTYRKOV
Mr. Chtyrkov graduated from the Moscow Ballet Academy in Moscow, Russia in 1990, where he studied under Prof. I. Ilychov. After graduation Mr. Chtyrkov was invited to the Kremlin Ballet in Moscow, Russia, and worked there for six years as a leading dancer. He partnered several times with the Great Russian prima ballerina Ms. Ekaterina Maximova (former Bolshoi Ballet Theater). Since 1995 Mr. Chtyrkov has danced with the Kinetic Theater in Moscow, Russia, where he received an award from Soros for the outstanding performing. Mr. Chtyrkov performed as a principal and soloist dancer with the Columbia City Ballet in Columbia, South Carolina and partnered Ms. Patricia Miller (former Geoffrey Ballet) in 1996. Also Mr. Chtyrkov performed as a guest artist with Greenville Ballet (Greenville, South Carolina), Ballet Spartanburg (Spartanburg, South Carolina), Mohawk Valley Performing Arts, Utica, New York and with the Oak Ridge Civic Ballet in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in 1996-1997. As a guest dance instructor, Mr. Chtyrkov has taught master classes at Arts in Motion in Kingston, Tennessee; at the Oak Ridge Civic Ballet in the Oak Ridge, Tennessee Dance Studios; at Spartanburg Ballet, Spartanburg, South Carolina; at the Family Theater, Crossville, Tennessee.
JOULIA MOISSEEVA
Ms. Moisseeva graduated from Voroneg School of Ballet from the class of Professor Valitova. After graduation, she performed with the Musical Theater of Karelia (Petrozavodsk, Russia) where she had the honor to work with ballet masters of the Kirov Theater: Mr. Baltacheev and Ms. Vasilieva. Since 1988, Ms. Moisseeva performed with the Moscow Festival Ballet (Moscow, Russia), and in 1990 she was invited to the Kremlin Ballet Company where she performed on one stage with Ekaterina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev, Ms. Timofeeva and Natalia Semenaka. From 1995 to 1996 Ms. Moisseeva danced with the Modern Theater (Usti-nad-Labom, Czech Republic). Ms. Moisseeva was a member of the Dance Faculty of the University of South Carolina (Columbia campus) and was ballet mistress at the Center for Dance Education in Columbia, SC and Lexington, SC. As a ballet instructor, Ms. Moisseeva taught in Akron University (Akron, OH), Oak Ridge, Kingston Ballet studios, Studio Arts for Dancers (Knoxville, TN), Lexington Ballet and Spartanburg Ballet in South Carolina, University of South Carolina. Ms. Moisseeva participated in international ballet tours to France, Italy, Norway, Austria, China, Mexico, Taiwan and USA. As a choreographer Ms. Moisseeva staged several ballets: Chopiniana, Nutcracker, Cinderella, Snow Maiden, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Paquita along with several other choreographed pieces and short ballets.
KAREN BURNS
Karen has trained and performed with some of the best companies in the world. She studied with Washington Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Ballet Intensive from Moscow, Choo San Goh, Dimitri Rudnev, Mary Day, Meredith Bayliss, Larissa Fausthaus and many more. She has had the great honor to perform at the White House for the President and also perform in archival footage of Agnes DeMille's choreography.
Karen has performed at the Lincoln Center in award winning choreography and was the former Artistic Director of Central West Ballet. She has performed with The Carnival of Chaos from San Francisco and has taught and coached at Dance Arts Studio, Blue Lake Fine Arts, Franklin School of Dance, Central West Ballet, Colorado Ballet, The School of Nashville Ballet, Jose Mateo Ballet Theater, Berkeley City Ballet and Savannah Danse Theatre.
Karen Burns has completed more than the study of Ballet - she has created over 28 ballets and nearly 50 pieces for summer workshops, many varied from musicals, music videos, and commercials. She also has coached for many competitions and pageants. Her range includes classical, neo-classical, comedy, and multi-discipline works.
