Natalia Nikolayevna Voskresenskaya is Honoured Artist of Russia, a ballet master and a restorer, a teacher, a ballet historian, a ballet critic, the President of the International Charity Fund for Restoring, Keeping and Development of the Classical Art of Ballet named after Marius Petipa. She graduated from Moscow Choreography College affiliated with Bolshoi Theatre (her teachers were E. Gerdt and S. Messerer). When she was 21 she started dancing in the Music Theatre named after K. Stanislavsky and V. Nemirovich-Danchenko. She graduated from the Teachers’ Training Department of State University of Theatre Art named after Lunacharsky with qualifications in ballet directing. She had been working as a rehearsing teacher since the first days of the Kremlin Ballet, and has cooperated with such prominent masters as E. Maksimova, V. Vasilyev and others. She founded a ballet school in Rosario city, Argentina. She has been working with “Ballet” magazine. Natalia Voskresenskaya has devoted her life to restoring classical ballet plays of Petipa in Russia and abroad. Today she is the leading teacher of the Governorate Ballet School College and the Dance School for Children in such disciplines as “classic dance” and “stage duet dance”.

Nikolay Fedorovich Laktionov is a laureate of the State USSR Prize, Honoured Art Worker of the Russian Federation, a laureate of the State Prize of the Mongol Republic, a chevalier of the Order of Honour. He is a director, a member of the Committee of the Russian Federation Association of Theatre Workers in mass forms of theatre art. He used to be the Director of State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia. Now he is the leading teacher of the Governorate Ballet School College in such disciplines as “basics of acting” and “fencing”.

The College is proud to have already collaborated with Nikolai Laktionov and Natalia Voskresenskaya. The students first met the world famous teachers in 2002, the year when the Governorate Ballet School College was set up. The prominent teachers were invited to Kostroma for exclusive master classes. Then Natalia Voskresenskaya said yes to be the head teacher for a class of students having become a teacher of “classic dance” and “stage duet dance”. Nikolai Laktionov worked with talented Kostroma students and taught them fencing techniques and acting. The diploma ballet named “The World called the Art of Dance” in 2007 became the result of the five-years’ painstaking collaboration. The first part of the show they performed a one act ballet to Prokofyev’s music called “Romeo and Juliet” (choreography and music direction by Maksim Vasilyev, written by Natalia Voskresenskaya, fencing scenes by Nikolai Laktionov) and the graduates managed to demonstrate fantastic acting as well as to show their skills of classic, stage duet, historical dances and other disciplines. The synergy of highly technical performance and captivating fighting scenes allowed the audience to feel the real atmosphere of tragedy. Sincerity and emotions conveyed in the inner monologues, which Natalia Voskresenskaya helped the soloists Lubava Demina (Juliette) and Denis Obukhov (Romeo) to achieve at her classes, were key feelings of the whole show. Thanks to pedagogical talent and skills of Natalia Voskresenskaya, Nikolai Laktionov and Maksim Vasilyev as well as to the youth, professionalism and devotion of the students Kostroma and Kostroma region for the first time could see marvelous classical ballet “Romeo and Juliette”.

Having vast experience of working together with Natalia Voskresenskaya and Nikolai Laktionov, the College administration is looking forward to conquering new heights of the choreography art with them.