Ballet Theater of Lancaster (BTL) received it’s 501(c)3 status from the Internal Revenue Service in April 1994. A local board of directors manages BTL.
Company membership is open to dancers 12 through 23 years of age. Auditions are held annually and the next one will be in January 2010. BTL works with about 25 dancers each year. Dancers learn choreography from internationally recognized dance artists, cultivate a spirit of cooperation with one another, develop self-discipline and perseverance, and learn to think creatively through movement. They work in a professional environment within their own community.
The company presents The Nutcracker in the fall of each year. This is a joint venture with the Donetsk Ballet of the Ukraine. Company dancers and dancers from local studios share the stage with the professional world-renowned artists from the Donetsk. Daytime performances introduce the classical ballet to area school children. The company presents an annual spring concert.
Faculty
Viktor Yeliohin, Choreographer
Viktor Yeliohin,
Ballet Master, choreographer and teacher has staged The Nutcracker in the United States since 1992, for the Donetsk Ballet.
He has been a teacher and choreographer for Lancaster School of Ballet since 1993, as well as Ballet Theater of Lancaster.
Mr. Yeliohin is a graduate of The Choreographic School in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. His ballet studies include character, folklore, drama, music,
mime and dance history. He spent a year in Samarkand with the Ballet Master from the Kirov ballet. Mr. Yeliohin joined the Donetsk Ballet in 1976
as a soloist, where he also served as a principal dancer, teacher and choreographer. He also served as choreographer for the Soviet Men’s Olympic team 1982-1986.
In 1995, Mr. Yeliohin received a diploma of Professor of Choreography from the Academic Board of the Ukraine Academy of Dance in Kiev.
Board Of Directors
Ballet Theater of Lancaster
Board Members - Officers
Members at Large
President
Vice President
Treasurer
Recording Secretary
Artistic Director