Olga Smelik
Instructor: Pre Pro Ballet
Miss Smelik was born in Russia and trained in Vaganova method. She performed as a soloist with the Central Ballet Theatre in Tennessee. She has taught throughout the United States for more than 18 years and her students have been accepted into prestigious ballet summer programs such as Bolshoi Ballet, ABT, Joffrey Chicago, Colorado Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Oklahoma City Ballet, Ballet 5:8, and have been awarded scholarship to Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. Her older daughter Celine, is now a professional ballet dancer with United States International Ballet.
Miss Smelik is certified to teach through level 5 of Classical Syllabus of the official Vaganova method curriculum from Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow. She is working towards comple certification in the full 8 year Vaganova curriculum in the near future.