| Regina Zarhina received her initial education
in St. Petersburg, Russia. She fortified that with a Film Degree
from Columbia College – Hollywood and further cemented it with an
M.A. in Theatre and Dance from the University of Colorado in Boulder. In
the meantime, she’s managed to hold many jobs, including teaching
in what felt like every dance school in Southern California, assisting
her friends in film productions, dancing with every company that would
have her, getting married and moving to Colorado, running her own (very
distinguished and strictly ballet) school for 10 years, having a daughter,
and embarking on a dance critic career in her free time.Then she moved
to England, and for 3 whole years, she was learning how to drive on the
left side of the road, while teaching at the prestigious Elmhurst School
for Dance in association with the Birmingham Royal Ballet. There,
she has made a few good friends and watched many of her students go onto
prosperous European jobs. She’s also traveled the world, teaching,
coaching and staging ballets extensively in Japan and just enjoying herself
in France, Spain, and Greece. However, she then discovered that while
driving on the left now came naturally, it was driving on the right that
caused her confusions. She then elected to return to America, particularly
because she received the most spectacular offer to become a Professor from
the University of Utah, where she now teaches classes in ballet technique,
pointe and variations, repertoire, and character dance. She is the
also the head of the teaching program at the department and lectures on
teaching methodologies. Besides, she wrote a dance appreciation course
for the general public, titled The Frocks, The Trocks, and The Dancing
Poodles: Traditions and Conventions of Classical Ballet. Professor
Zarhina continues to publish articles and critical reviews, participates
in conferences and festivals, and is often invited to teach master classes
in the US and abroad. |
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