VIKTOR YELIOHIN is the Artistic Director of Ballet Theater of Lancaster. Ballet Master, Choreographer and Teacher, he was born in Tashkent in the former Soviet Union. He is a graduate of The Choreographic School, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. His ballet studies include training in character, folklore, drama, music, mime and dance history. He spent a year in Samarkand with the Ballet Master from the Kirov Ballet. He joined the Donetsk Ballet in 1976 as a soloist and was also a principal dancer, teacher and choreographer for the Donetsk Ballet. He was choreographer for the Soviet Men's Olympic team from 1982-1986. In May 1995, he received a diploma of "Professor of Choreography" from the Academic Board of the Ukraine Academy of Dance in Kiev. In the fall of 2010, Viktor opened the Viktor Yeliohin International Ballet Academy. Viktor has staged The Nutcracker in the United States since 1992 and has been with the Ballet Theater of Lancaster since 1993.
