Pryntsev Ballet Academy
Summer Intensive Faculty 2024
Subject To Change
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Artistic Director of Pryntsev Ballet Academy
Former Dancer 🇺🇦 Nat’l Theater Opera and Ballet Dnipro
Ballet Technique, Pointe, Variation, Character, Partnering Classes
Ivan Pryntsev was born in Dnipro, Ukraine. He began his dance training at the Dnipro Ballet Academy, where he studied classical ballet and contemporary dance. At age 15, he was accepted into the Dnipro Theatrical Art College. Ivan was invited to join the Dnipro Opera and Ballet Theatre while still a student, and toured with the company to Berlin, Germany and Xuchang, China where he performed in Swan Lake, Romeo & Juliet, and The Sleeping Beauty. He graduated from the Dnipro Theatrical Art College at age 19, with qualifications as a Professional Ballet Dancer, Teacher of Specialized Institutions of Art, and Director of Choreographic Collective. He was then offered a contract to dance with the Moscow Ballet in The Great Russian Nutcracker, and performed in over 70 cities across the United States. In 2019, Ivan performed lead roles in classical ballet productions with Festival Ballet Theater and Golden State Dance Foundation, both in Orange County, California. In addition to dancing professionally, Ivan also teaches ballet, pointe, variation, and character dance classes, as well as workshops and master classes for children, teens, and adults throughout southern California.
In early 2020 Ivan founded Pryntsev Ballet Academy in Orange County, CA, training his students in the Vaganova Ballet Method and providing young students with a pre-professional environment, proper ballet technique, avoiding injuries and helping students reach their maximum potential. Ivan believes that in the right environment any child can learn and improve their skills!
Through his detailed teaching method, Mr. Pryntsev's students have been awarded at Youth America Grand Prix Regional Competitions and placed as TOP 1, TOP 3, TOP 6 and TOP 12 as well as been awarded scholarships and have been accepted to schools such as Bolshoi Ballet Summer intensive, Ellison Ballet Summer intensive, Colorado Ballet Summer intensive, IBC Summer intensive Moscow and others.
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Elena Baltovick began studying classical ballet at age nine in her native Kiev, Ukraine. She studied at the National Choreographic Ballet School of Ukraine and danced with the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet. Ms. Baltovick came to the United States in 1992 to continue her study of the Vaganova Method with the Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts in Connecticut graduating with honors in 1994. In 1998 Ms. Baltovick graduated cum laude from the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music and Ballet Pedagogy. Her main coach was world famous Prima Ballerina Alla Osipenko from Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Elena’s students achieved:
2011- YAGP San Diego/ Top 12 Pre-Competitive Contemporary (PCC)
2012- Top 12 PCC, 3rd Place Ensemble
2013- Top 12 PCC, 1st Place Junior Contemporary, Top 12 Ensemble
2014- 1st PCC, 2nd Place Junior Contemporary, Top 12 Pre-Competitive Classical and Top 12 PCC
2015- Outstanding Teacher, 3rd Place PCC, Top 12 Junior Contemporary, Top 12 Junior Classical and Top
12 Pre-Competitive Junior Contemporary, Top 12 Ensembles
2016-Top 12 PCC, Top 12 Junior Classical, 3rd Place Junior Contemporary, 3rd Place Junior Classical and
Top 12 Junior Contemporary, 3rd Place Pre-Competitive Men’s Classical
2017- 2nd Place PCC, Top 12 Pre-Competitive Classical, Top 12 Junior Contemporary, 1st Place Junior
Contemporary, 1st Place PCC
2018- 2nd Place Pre-Competitive Classical, 3rd Place Pre-Competitive Classical, Top 12 PCC, 1st Place
Trio, 1st Place Ensemble, 2nd Place Pre-Competitive Contemporary, Top 12 Pre-Competitive Classical
YAGP Los Angeles: 1st Place PCC, Top 12 PCC, Top 12 Pre-Competitive Classical
2019 – 12 NY Finalists for Youth America Grand Prix, Outstanding Teacher 2019 YAGP
2020 – 6 finalists for Candian Grand Prix Niagara Falls, Outstanding Teacher Canadian Grand Prix
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🇺🇦 Odessa Nat’l State Opera and Ballet Theatre
Ballet Technique, Pointe, Variation, Character
Natasha graduated in 1988 from the Kiev Academic Choreography School, where she was trained under the Honorable Ukrainian Actress A.G. Calchenko. After graduation, she was invited to join the Odessa Academic State Opera and Ballet Theatre. She toured Japan, China, Taiwan, Germany, Spain, Finland, Lebanon, and other countries, and performed with them as a soloist until 2000. From 2001 to 2003, she was a principal dancer with the First State Ballet Theater in Delaware. In 2003, Natasha became a soloist and audition director for the Moscow Ballet where she remained until 2013. She has performed in many ballet repertoire including: The Nutcracker (Pas de Deux/Snow), Giselle, Swan Lake, Flames of Paris, The Sleeping Beauty, Walpurgis Night, La Bayadère, The Little Humpbacked Horse, Carnival in Venice,Chopiniana, Carmen Suite, Pas de Quatre, Don Quixote and more.Natasha began her teaching career in 2000 at Dance Elite ballet school in Doylestown, PA, where she taught ballet technique to beginning through advanced level classes and pointe. She prepared choreography for their annual performance of “The Nutcracker” and “The Wizard of Oz”. She continued teaching and choreographing while working with students at Media Dance School in Media, PA, and the Russian Ballet Center in Newport, DE before taking her role in 2003 as soloist with the Moscow Ballet. Natasha has taught in the San Diego and Orange County areas from 2013 to the present. Natasha’s dancers have won various awards including 1st and 3rd places at YAGP in San Diego and Los Angeles in 2019. Natasha looks forward to training the dancers at Pryntsev Ballet Academy, improving their technique and sharing her love of ballet.
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Contemporary Dance, Modern, Jazz
Dasha is one of the most exceptional dancer/choroegraphers in professional community today. Dasha is a unique choreographer, with a wide range of skills and performing abilities. She was born in Moscow and grew up in the heart of Russian Ballet training. She blossomed into a beautiful technical dancer, who over the years has worked with companies such as Moiseyev Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet(Moscow) and Riverdance company( European tour). Dasha also became known in Europe as a principal dancer and actress in world famous productions like `` Cats`` (Moscow),``Romeo&Juliet`` (Moscow), ``CHICAGO``(Tour), ``Burn the floor`` (London) etc.
After receiving her Masters ( Russian Ballet Academy, Russian Theater Academy) Dasha made her way West - towards new goals and creative dreams and has been working in US. Since then her professional credits include : Madonna, Black Eyed Peas, Beyonce, Cirque Du Soleil (MJ), MTV Music Awards, Billboard Awards, Pharrell ,Daft Punk and many more. She continues to teach master classes across the US and internationally ( NYC, DC , Italy, Russia, Netherlands, Japan, Israel and Spain).
Dasha is professor at American Music and Dramatic Academy College (AMDA LA).
In June 2015 Dasha became one of Artistic Directors of the renowned Millennium Dance Complex in LA- MDC The Company and MDC Crew. She received 2 Years in a row( 2016 and 2017) the destinguished Outstanding Choreography Award from YAGP Youth American Gran Prix- the pearl of Classical and Contemporary ballet Competitions.
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Contemporary Dance, Modern
Rachel Soltesz started dancing at the young age of two years old and fell in love with ballet and contemporary. Throughout her training, Rachel attended summer intensive programs at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Marat Daukayev Ballet School, Alonzo King Lines Ballet, and Ellison Ballet in New York City, as well as the Wiener Staatsoper in Vienna, Dresden Ballet School, and the International Ballet Masterclasses of Prague where she trained with some of the world’s most renowned ballet instructors. She was offered to attend the year round professional school program at the Taneční Konservatoř Hlavnhío Města Prahy (Prague State Ballet School) but chose to finish her training at Richter Academy of Classical Dance under the direction of Lauren Richter Henry. In September of 2018, Rachel went to Posadas, Argentina to train with the company, Ballet Centro Del Conocimiento, and work alongside Mrs. Lauren to set Richter Academy’s full length rendition of the Nutcracker. Once graduating high school, Rachel continued teaching many styles of dance including ballet, contemporary, jazz, world dance, and improvisation. She has choreographed contemporary solos for herself and other students to perform at numerous dance competitions over the past five years. In 2017, one of her choreographed solos was performed in the New York City Finals for the Youth American Grand Prix competition. Since then, many of her choreographed contemporary solos have received recognition in the top twelve at YAGP, California Dance Classics, Intrigue Competition, Rainbow Competition, and KAR Competition. Rachel looks forward to joining the Prynstev Ballet Academy faculty and sharing her knowledge with the next generation of young dancers.