Teaching Experience
2019-Current Adjunct Faculty University of Delaware Dance Minor, Newark DE
2010-2023 Resident Teacher, Choregorapher Academy of International Ballet, Media PA
2022-Current Pilates Instructor University of Delaware, Siegel JCC DE
2011-2017 Resident Teacher Broadway Bound Dance Academy, Media PA
2010-2013 Resident Teacher First State Ballet Theater, Wilmington DE
2010-2011 Resident Teacher Crane Performing Arts, West Chester PA
2006-2010 Guest Teacher Academy of International Ballet, Media PA

University Teaching Experience
2009-2010 Substitute Teacher University of the Arts Dance Department, Theater
Department
2009-2010 Peer Tutor University of the Arts Tutoring Department

Professional Dance Experience
2010-2019 Principal Dancer First State Ballet Theater, Wilmington, DE
2016 Guest Artist Syracuse City Ballet
2009 Guest Artist City Ballet of San Diego, San Diego, CA
2008 Guest Artist Configuration Dance Theater, Buffalo, NY

Classical Repertoire
Lead Roles: Coppellia (Saint-Leon), Nutcracker (Petipa), Don Quixote (Gorsky) Romeo and Juliet (Viktor
Plotnikov) Giselle (Coralli, Perrot)
Pas De Deux: Flames of Paris (Vainonen), Sleeping Beauty (Petipa), Le Corsaire (Petipa), Carnival in Venice
(Petipa), Flower Festival in Genzano (Bournonville), Peasant Pas De Deux (Giselle) (Corralli/Perot), La Sylphide
(Bournonville), Ocean and Pearls (Little Humpbacked Horse) (Petipa), Marquitanka (Saint-Leon), Bluebird Pas
De Deux (Sleeping Beauty) (Petipa)
Other Roles: Spartacus (Grigorovich), Giselle (Corralli/Perot), Walpurgis Nacht (Lavrovsky), Gopak (Zakharov),
La Fille Mal Gardee (Gorsky),

Contemporary Repertoire
Twyla Tharp: As Time Goes By, Noir
Viktor Plotnikov: Everlasting Arms, Pinocchio, Nonsense in the Sense of Innocence
Michael Shannon: Tchaikotic, Arthur of Wales New York
Christine Cox: Loop

Dance Preparation
2006-2010 Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Tap, College of Performing Arts, University of the Arts,
Philadelphia, Andrew Pap, Eva Szabo, Scott Jovovich, Karen Brown, Christine Cox, Kim Bears,
Zane Booker, Brian Sanders, Wayne David, Ronen Koresh, Donald Lunsford.
2019 Pilates Mat Instruction, AFPA
2003-2006 Ballet, Character, Pas De Deux, Classical Repertoire Academy of
International Ballet Media PA, Denis Gronostayskiy, Anastasia Babayeva, Guest Teachers:
Malcolm Burn, Maria Youskevich, Michael Shannon, Hennadi Bespechnyi, Anna Ivanova
1995-2003 Ballet, Pas De Deux, Classical Repertoire, Philadelphia Dance Conservatory,
Philadelphia, Mikhail Korogodsky, Guest Teachers: Yelena Ryabinkina, Marina Bagdanova

Scholarships
2006-2010 University of the Arts awarded a full director’s scholarship
2009 Bolshoi Ballet Academy Summer Intensive awarded a full scholarship to New York, NY
intensive

Awards
2013 Valentina Kozlova Ballet Competition “Outstanding Contemporary Interpretation”
2010 University of the Arts awarded “Outstanding Student Teacher”
2007 Youth American Grand Prix awarded 1st place in “Men’s Classical Solo” division in
the Philadelphia Regional Competition, Philadelphia PA
2007 Youth Dance Festival of New Jersey awarded “Best Male Dancer” special award