21/03/2020
SUMMER BALLET INTENSIVE 20 July — 8 August, 2020 St. Petersburg, Russia
www.balletheritage.com
Natalia Kasparova — Modern
Natalia Kasparova has graduated from Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health. She learned modern dance during the continuing education program in Austria (Nora Mack center, Klagenfurt), Great Britain (Common Pulse Festival, London, UK), the USA (Henneping Center, Minneapolis, MN), Finland (UrbanJazzFestival), and also during the ADF Festival in Moscow and Yekaterinburg. Natalia is a founder and artistic director of Saint Petersburg dance house «Kannon dance» (est. 1997)
Nowadays Natalia Kasparova is an outstanding pedagogue and one of the greatest contemporary dance choreographers in Russia. Her extraordinary pedagogical talent has been highly recognized in George Washington University (Washington, DC), WTA&M University (Texas, USA), DansHogSkolan (Stockholm, Sweden), Centre de dans Rick Odums (Paris, France), where Natalia worked as visiting teacher and has directed a number of stagings for students.
In 2001 and 2005 she has been invited to the famous Summer Art University (Fresno, California, USA) to lead a master classes.
As a choreographer she also collaborated with such dance companies as Lone Star Ballet (Texas, USA) (2006), «Dance in corpore 2.0» (2013, France), DeStilte Company (2014, Breda, Netherlands).
The American Dance Magazine in 2004 has published a special article about Natalia Kasparova’s career and highly recognized her as a talented choreographer, pedagogue and innovator.
2004-2008 Senior Lecturer of the Department of modern choreography and dancing theraphy in Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sports and Health.
2010-2015 an invited lecturer of Saint Petersburg State University of Art and Culture.
2015 till present day collaborates with Boris Eifman dance academy as a curator of the program of modern dance.