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About Our Staff |
Barbara HaskellDirector
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With over 20 years of teaching experience
with all ages and levels of dance,Barbara opened The Dance Academy of
Severna Park in 1993. In an effort to provide a fun and friendly atmosphere
in which to learn dance, she decided to create a studio that would encourage
artistic expression while building self esteem. The studio was expanded
in 1998 and then again in 2002 to provide larger, state-of-the-art facilities.
Barbara likes to give back to the community by helping local Brownies
and Girl Scouts earn their badges, help school groups that wish to participate
in talent shows, and local theatre and church groups.
Along with her husband Jim , and their three children, Barbara resides
in Severna Park.
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Dmitri Malikov
Ninel Cherevko
Assistant
directors |
Dmitri Malikov is a 1987 graduate of the famed Bolshoi Ballet
Academy in Moscow, and Ninel Cherevko is a 1991 graduate of the Lvov Choreographic
Institute in Ukraine. They met in 1993 when Ninel joined the Donetsk Ballet,
where Dmitri had been performing since 1987. Malikov and Cherevko have also
been principal dancers with the Lvov Ballet Theatre in Ukraine and the Moscow
City Ballet.
In 1994 and 1995 they danced in the International Festival "Stars of World Ballet", and in 1995 they were both promoted to the Highest Category
Ballet Artist. They have performed in the United Kingdom, Poland, Estonia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore and Italy, and Malikov is
featured in the 2002 book A Young Dancer's Apprenticeship: On Tour with the Moscow City Ballet. They came to the United States in 1999 to become
principal dancers with the Ballet Theatre of Maryland under the direction of Edward Stewart. Both Malikov and Cherevko have been teaching, coaching
and choreographing for young dancers in the area since they arrived in Annapolis. Dmitri has been teaching at the Dance Academy of Severna Park since 2001
and has staged The Nutcracker (2003, 2004), Sleeping Beauty (2003), Cinderella (2004), and together with Ninel, Coppelia
(2005).
Ninel joined the staff of The Dance Academy of Severna Park in 2004.
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