Russian Ballet Orlando’s Katerina Fedotova in her own words…

I want people to come away feeling happy, inspired, joyful, warm, self-confident, more knowledgeable about music, composers, the history of dance, stage presence, acting, body awareness, and proud!

A major part of my passion? To reach across social barriers and income groups to touch people who would otherwise never know what ballet is.

Forget any notion of snobbiness in ballet. Here you will always find a great mix of students and dancers, all working very hard to realize their own potential by collaborating with others.

…and in NPAFE’s words…

People often ask us: “How does NPAFE choose who to feature in its web pages? What is the ‘excellence’ you look for?”

Russian Ballet Orlando and its founder-Artistic Director Katerina Fedotova capture the answers in everything they do: their creativity, their beauty, their hard work, their tenacity, and especially their sheer determination to benefit others – dancers, students, audiences, the city of Orlando where it has been located since 2000, the whole of Florida and way beyond.

The element that most generates our admiration for Russian Ballet Orlando is how it captures the compelling essence of dance artistry and then shares it with today’s generations and especially tomorrow’s.

This is where Russian Ballet Orlando stands out. Katerina Fedotova presents the best in ballet, coupled with her fierce determination to impart self-discipline, self-confidence and personal agency to her students that will empower them to excel, whether in dance or any endeavor they choose.

How Fedotova and her amazing team go about achieving this success warrants special praise. They are hardly satisfied with the usual academy norm of scheduling classes for teaching ballet skills to their charges. Not for a moment.

Instead, Fedotova and her expert teaching staff go the distance few others dare: integrating RBO’s students into a highly acclaimed series of annual staged performances in high end theaters all around Florida. That’s not all: Fedotova goes much further, bringing in star international choreographers and dancers to train RBO’s students, rehearse with them, and then perform together with them on stage.

Imagine! Students find themselves working with masters of the ballet arts from all around the world, performing in front of audiences that in these past 20 years have numbered in the millions. What a reach!

Even more, Fedotova, her faculty, and the entire Russian Ballet Orlando enterprise innovate non-stop to marshal ever more audience pleasing excellence. For proof, look no further than the unique RBO Florida Historic Theater Tour and Carmen stagings now set for late 2020 and 2021, pandemic notwithstanding.

How is Russian Ballet Orlando pulling off all this? The proof will be live on stage – YOU will see the proof live on stage when you’re there – not only the best that ballet has to offer but also the best of what is in store, in the magical mix of RBO’s creativity and drive, for the future of ballet and its massive Florida and worldwide audience.