Our Staff

Sergey Muretov is recognized for his unique teaching ability, creativity and high level of professionalism. The following describes his dance experience:

Sergey

• Master Examiner and an Adjudicator with the Russian and Canadian Dance Association

• Former professional competitor (S-class) and all Russian Latin and Ballroom Dance Champion

• Started his dance carrier in 1969.

• Opened the Faculty of Dance at the University in Ukraine; professor status.

• All Russian Dance festival winner (1974).

• Winner of official dance championships and the highest S- class dancer (where: E, D, C, B, A and S classes, equivalent to pre-bronze, bronze, silver, gold and champions)

• Started dance teaching and coaching career in 1979. Started his own Dance Club in Russia.

• Conducted dance workshops and seminars across Europe.

• Taught ballroom dancing in Poland (Wroclaw University Dance team, Opole’s dance club) and Sweden (Sundsvall Dance Team).

• Judged in many international competitions.

• Organized wheelchair dances.

• Represented the Ukraine on the first Europe Wheelchair Dance Championship in Sweden.

• Taught several thousand students during his training carrier including USA Champion (Alexander Senko, 2004 US National Champion, 10 Dances).

 

Kira Jade Cooper Kira

•Kira first began her dance career in 1999 while studying lyrical dance in her school. Recognizing the importance of classical training, she began studying Ceccheti and then RAD styles of Ballet, and later progressed to pointe.

•Transitioning from ballet into more contemporary styles, her dancing led her towards Limón and Graham techniques of modern dance where she performed in dance academies, schools and local shows. 

•Musical theater also became a great interest where she both performed and developed choreography (which consisted of a fusion of jazz, lyrical, modern and broadway styles) for a local theatre group.

 

 

Marina Kolotova

•For the last four years Marina taught belly-dance in Canada. She participated in creation of the new program “New achieving goals + balance” for the Vaughan community recreation (Vaughan community magazine “Guide to Recreation and Parks 2003-2005”).

•Before coming to Canada, for eight years Marina performed at the most prestigious stages of the United Arab Emirates (www.repertoire-entertainment.com “One Arabian night”)..Marina

•Marina graduated from the Cultural Educational College, department of “Head of Amateur Choreographic Group” and the Samara Institute of Culture with speciality of “ballet-master, head of a choreographic group”.

•After graduation she worked as a ballet artist at Volga People’s Choir and at Academic Kuban Choir. While staying at Near East, she studied techniques of many belly-dance schools, and was one of the first Russian dancers who performed at the most prestigious shows and stages of Dubai.

• “When I dance, my body flies with my soul; when I dance, I am happy. I understood the whole beauty of this art and had fallen in love with it as my calling.”