SUMMER INTENSIVE 2020

BOYKO DOSSEV

Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma School of Dance

Boyko Dossev is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma School of Dance.
He serves as an Assistant Director for the Oklahoma Festival Ballet and as the School
of Dance Summer Intensive Coordinator. Dossev taught at Harvard University and
danced with the Boston Ballet before joining the OU School of Dance. Dossev’s
choreography was performed on many national and international stages, including
Semperoper Ballet Dresden, Hamburg Ballet, and the Boston Ballet, to name a few. He
teaches classes and master classes nationally and internationally.
Dossev is a Gold Medalist from the prestigious Varna International Ballet Competition
and holds a Bachelor’s in Ballet Pedagogy, a Master’s in Choreography, and a Master’s
of Science in Corporate and Organizational Communication.

DENIS MALINKINE

Ballet Master, Milwaukee Ballet

A native Russian, Denis Malinkine graduated from the esteemed Bolshoi Ballet Academy. He soon joined the Moscow Classical Ballet in 1985 and participated in many of the Company’s tours, including: the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan, among othesrs. In 1990 he joined the National Ballet of Portugal.

In 1993, Mr. Malinkine was invited by Christopher Gable to join England’s Northern Ballet Theatre. As a principal he created the title role in the landmark production of Dracula by Michael Pink and Christopher Gable, and the roles of Captain Phoebus in Pink’s Hunchback of Notre Dame and Albrecht in Northern Ballet Theatre’s Giselle. He expanded this experience in the genre of Dance Drama in productions of Romeo & Juliet, Christmas Carol, Cinderella, Swan Lake, The Brontes and Carmen.

Mr. Malinkine has worked with Atlanta Ballet since 1999 where he created the role of Romeo in Michael Pink’s Romeo & Juliet. During his career he has appeared in classical ballet performances, and in productions by George Balanchine, Kenneth MacMillan, Lila York and many others.

Mr. Malinkine has acted as guest artist and assistant to Mr. Pink in performing and remounting these works for Atlanta Ballet, Boston Ballet, Colorado Ballet, Ballet Internationale and the Norwegian National Ballet. He also assisted John McFall in his work for Peter Pan with Ballet Internationale.

MARIANA OLIVEIRA

Founder of The Union Project Dance Company

Originally from Brazil, Mariana Oliveira studied at the Royal Academy of Dance in London, and was a trainee dancer at the National Dance Company of Wales. At the age of 19 she was invited to perform with the Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami. In 2009 she founded The Union Project Dance Company.

She has been commissioned to create new works for the New York City Ballet Choreographic Institute, Nashville Ballet, Richmond Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Carolina Ballet, Dayton Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Joffrey Ballet Academy, Madison Ballet, National Choreographers Initiative, Ballet Arkansas, and American Midwest Ballet. Mariana is a recipient of the NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts Fellowship, as well the Kansas City University Choreographic Fellowship. Her works have also been presented at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and for 2 consecutive years she has been a finalist of the McCallum Theatre Choreography Festival. Mariana taught at the Bolshoi Ballet School in Brazil (the only Bolshoi School outside Russia) for the dancers of the Youth Company.

VERONIKA PART

Ballet Master at Atlanta Ballet

Former Principal Dancer for American Ballet Theatre

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Veronika Part began her early training in artistic gymnastics before entering the Vaganova Ballet Academy in 1988. Part graduated in 1996 and joined the Kirov Ballet. She was promoted to soloist in 1998.

Part’s repertoire with the Kirov included Nikiya in La Bayadère, the Queen of the Dryads
in Don Quixote, Myrta, Moyna and Zulma in Giselle, Raymonda and Henrietta in Raymonda, the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty and Odette-Odile in Swan Lake. She also danced roles in George Balanchine’s Apollo (Terpsichore), Jewels (Emeralds and Diamonds), Symphony in C (second movement) and Serenade, and in John Neumeier’s The Sounds of Empty Pages.

Part was the winner of the BALTIKA Prize in 1999.

Part joined American Ballet Theatre as a Soloist in August 2002 and was promoted to Principal in May 2009. Her roles with the Company include Terpsichore in Apollo, Nikiya in La Bayadère, Zina in The Bright Stream, Fairy Godmother in Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, Twig in James Kudelka’s Cinderella, Prayer in Coppélia, an Odalisque in Le Corsaire, Kitri, Mercedes and the Queen of the Driads in Don Quixote, Glove Seller in Gaîté Pasrisienne, Myrta in Giselle, Queen of Shemakahn in The Golden Cockerel, An Episode in His Past in Jardin aux Lilas, leading roles in Ballet Imperial, The Leaves Are Fading and Mozartiana, Manon in Lady of the Camellias, Lescaut’s Mistress in Manon, His Friend’s Wife in The Moor’s Pavame the Sugar Plum Fairy in Kevin McKenzie’s The Nutcracker, Clara, the Princess in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Emilia in Othello, Other Dances, the Chief Nursemaid in Petrouchka, Eldest Sister in Pillar of Fire, the Polovtsian Princess in the Polovtsian Dances, The Siren in Prodigal Son, Raymonda, Henrietta, the White Lady and the Lead Spanish Dancer in Raymonda, Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Princess Aurora and the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty, Odette-Odile, the Polish Princess and a Big Swan in Swan Lake, the Sylph in La Sylphide, the leading role in Les Sylphides and Symphonie Concertante, Sylvia and Terpsichore in Sylvia, the second movement in Symphony in C, The Awakening Pas de Deux and roles in Bach Partita, Birthday Offering, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Duets, The Garden of Villandry, Monotones II, Overgrown Path, Seven Sonatas, Sinfonietta and Symphony #9. She created Natalia in On the Dnieper, the Lilac Fairy in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, the Blue Pas de Deux and leading roles in Dumbarton, Kaleidoscope, Triptych and Within You Without You: A Tribute to George Harrison.

After 15 years with the company, Part retired from American Ballet Theatre in July 2017. In August 2019, she joined Atlanta Ballet as Ballet Master.