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Lucretia Lomax Alvarez, Director of The Dance Studio
Lucretia studied at Texas Christian University, the San Francisco Ballet School and the University of Utah where she received a B.F.A. in Ballet. She has danced with Longview Ballet Theatre, Fort Worth Ballet and Austin Contemporary Ballet. Her teaching career began in 1980 with Star Studios in Salt Lake City, and USA summer workshops in Utah, Texas, and California. She also toured with the Osmond family, performed with Vanessa Williams, studied with Paula Abdul, and choreographed half-time shows for the SLC Stars which were performed for the Utah Jazz, LA Lakers, LA Rams, SF Forty-Niners, University of Utah, University of Hawaii, and the Osmond's annual 4th of July Freedom Festivals.
She moved to Austin in 1986 to teach for Austin Ballet Theater, Austin Dance Academy, and Ballet Austin, and was also resident choreographer for Austin Contemporary Ballet and Texas Youth Ballet. In 1991 she became director of The Dance Studio and founding director of Dance Spectrum in northwest Austin. Her spectrum of repertory ranges from classical ballet, modern, lyrical, jazz, tap, hip hop, and musical theatre.
Her acting experience began at a very young age, and she loves working with actors as well as dancers, and the cross training process for both theatre and dance productions. Her theatre choreography includes Spoon River Anthology in Longview, Twelfth Night in Salt Lake City, Ruddigore in Austin, and Chorus Line and Grease with Dance Spectrum.
Lucretia spent ten years at the University of Texas Department of Theatre & Dance, first as adjunct faculty, then as Director of Summer Outreach Programs coordinating the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive and the Rockette Summer Intensive.
International projects include teaching and performing at Danza Nueva-Festival Internacional de Lima, Peru in 1995, and several collaborations with Myra Woodruff and Thierry Hochstatter of Bejart Rudra in Lausanne, Switzerland. She is a member of the Texas Association Teachers of Dancing, and Texas Assoc. for the Gifted and Talented.
Celebrating 30 years of teaching, Lucretia is restructuring her Austin schedule this year to include new opportunities for teaching in Elgin, Tx. She is very excited to bring her purple passion for dance to an enthusiastic purple community to embrace her style of teaching. There will be performing opportunities for both Austin & Elgin students to share.
Svetlana Krylova (Substitute)
Svetlana Krylova has a Master Degree in Performing Arts and Classical Ballet from the Russian State Academy for the Classical Ballet of Veronez, Russia. She danced as an artist and soloist for the Russian State Academy Theatre for the Opera and Ballet of Donetsk. She toured the United States twice with the Donetsk Ballet and once with Vadim Pisarev and his Russian Ballet. She has taught Classical Ballet, Character Dance, and Ethnic European Dance in Pennsylvania and Ballet Austin, and American Ballet Theatre's Summer Intensive at the University of Texas at Austin. She taught 12 years with Dance Spectrum and The Dance Studio. She draws from her extensive knowledge of classical and character dance to stage excerpts from Paquita, Coppelia, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Le Corsaire, and Les Sylphides for Dance Spectrum. She has a true talent for simplistic classical details and creating beautiful choreography which features all her dancers in full elegance on stage.
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