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We would like to highlight several alumni in their pursuits of giving back.
The Alumni Spotlight highlights Kirov Academy alumni making impacts all over the globe. Kirov’s 300 live and work all over the world in every field imaginable. The Alumni Spotlight series captures our graduates’ stories and Kirov Academy’s impact on their lives after graduation. To submit an alumni’s story, email
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Mi Sun Kang
ALUMNI 2002
Mi Sun Kang was born in Incheon, South Korea. She received her ballet training at the Sun Hwa Arts School and the Kirov Academy of Ballet, Washington, DC. Mi Sun Kang joined Universal Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2002, was promoted to Demi-Soloist in 2005...
Michelle Wiles
ALUMNI 1997
Apart from starting her own dance company after retiring from American Ballet Theater, Michele Wiles has also focused on philanthropy - she has been doing charity...
Hye Min Hwang
ALUMNI 1996
Hye Min Hwang was born in South Korea. When she was young, she started learning gymnastics. However, by chance she fell in love with ballet. She received her ballet training at Sun Hwa Arts School, followed further study at the Kirov Academy of Ballet, Washington, DC.
Brooklyn Mack
ALUMNI 2004
Raised in Elgin, South Carolina,
Mack began ballet training to improve his football playing when he was 12 years old. He started his studies at the Pavlovich Dance School...
Hee Seo
ALUMNI 2008
Hee Seo is a South Korean ballet dancer who is a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the three leading classical ballet companies in the United States...
Jae Yong Ohm
Alumni 2000
Jae Yong Ohm was born in Seoul, South Korea, and began ballet training when he was 13 years old. He studied ballet at Sun Hwa Arts Middle and High Schools and the Kirov Academy of Ballet, Washington, DC as well as Korea National University of Arts.
Matthew Golding
Alumni 2002
Washington DC at The Universal Ballet School, formerly known as Kirov Academy and further went on to graduate with Honors from The Royal Ballet School of London...
Vanessa Zahorian
Alumni 1995
Vanessa is currently a Co-Artistic Director of the Pennsylvania Ballet Academy with her husband Davit Karapetyan. They opened the brand new school in 2017 after retiring...
Prince A. Sanders
ALUMNI 1996
A former professional ballet dancer with Albano Ballet and Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Prince fell into a career in hospitality...
Evan McKie
ALUMNI 1999
Mr. McKie is currently a principal dancer for the National Ballet of Canada and guest artist with the Paris Opera, Bolshoi, Mariinsky, and Tokyo Ballets...
Adrienne Canterna
ALUMNI 1998
Kirov Academy of Ballet scholarship graduate Adrienne Canterna is the recipient of numerous national and international awards including winning the GOLD...
Christin Arthur
ALUMNI 2002
Christin Arthur embarked on her path toward a professional dance career with the Ballet West Academy in Salt Lake City, Utah, at age ten. Under the tutelage of Sharee Lane, she danced principal roles in the Ballet West Academy programs...
Yena Kang
ALUMNI 1993
Yena’s rehearsal of the scene where she jumps into the water had to be stopped several because of her fear of heights but she is determined that it will be different this time...
Caroline Poppell
ALUMNI 2006
Caroline’s inspiring bio can be found on her website, Milk Carton on a String.  "In 2004, Caroline was accepted into the Kirov Academy of Ballet, which she graduated from in 2006...
Kyle Allen
ALUMNI 2013
Kyle trained as a classical ballet dancer for five years at the Kirov Academy of Ballet and also practiced acrobatics for six years. He was previously a dancer with the San Francisco Ballet...
Maxim Clefos
Alumni 2004
Maxim currently serves as the Resident Ballet Master at the Lithuanian National Ballet.
Alexandra Wilson
Alumni 2016
Miss Wilson joined Colorado Ballet’s Studio Company and was promoted into the main company for their 2019/2020 season.
Min Woo Kang
ALUMNI 2008
Min Woo Kang was born in South Korea. He trained in ballet at Sun Hwa Arts School and the Kirov Academy of Ballet, Washington, DC and then went on to graduate from the Sejong University Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Arts. Min Woo Kang joined Universal Ballet...
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November 1998
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1991
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1992
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1993
Josh Brooksher
Tara Hench
Yena Kang
Jamie Planko
Serkan Usta
1994
Alex Devine
Laura Best Ramsay
Margo Caslavka
Catherine Mountjoy
1995
Sergiu Brindusa
Heidi Hoogerbeets
Yu Ri Kim
Tanya Marchman
Costin Radu
Ioana Vasilescu
1996
Elizabeth Balash
Teodor Ciocoiu
Staci Kinkead
Dragos Mihalcea
Prince Sanders
Jonelle Fonda
1997
Eun Young Ahn
Linnea Austin
Kathryn Berger
Eun Joo Cho
Dawn Kelly Moore
Jee Hye Kim
Kyung Eun Lee
Jennifer Polink
Racheal Reilmann
Peter Volz FB
Michelle Wiles
1998
Alexa Gutierrez
Joseph Nicholas Keckley
She Yun Kim
Brian Maloney
Sergey Rayevskiy
1999
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2000
Eleanor Bates
Zoe Block
Michelle Couto
Sarah Glick
Channcey Hildestad
Rory Hohenstein
Devin Krahling
Carolyn Lockhart
Katie O’Connell
Laura O’Malley
2001
Amelia Abraham
Bret Baur
Molly Carroll
Mary Manning
Anya Russian
Edward Tracz
Karen Uphoff
Jacqueline Wille McDaniel
2002
Christin Arthur
Melissa Galli
Matthew Golding
Melissa Hough
Mi Sun Kang
Lauren Keplesky
Barry Kerollis
Jade Min Kim
Kuzey Kiyican
Michelle Kolberg
Aleah Martin
Katherine Moorhead
Ian Poulis
Sadie Strangio
2003
Victoria Canelos
Casey Dalton
Tonya Milne
Daniel Rowe
2004
Ariella Astion
Emily Bicks
Anita Boer
Jennica Bramble
Annie Cannon
Maxim Clefos
Joanna DeFelice
Ashlee Dupre
Nicole Euell
Ian Lindeman
Samantha Livingston
Brooklyn Mack
Regina Park
Danae Quevedo
Carolyn Taconi
Shane Wuerthner
Misaki Yokoi
Melanie Hamrick
2005
Kiri Chapman
Triana Cristobal
Kimberly Faure
David Harvey
An Na Jung
Ae-Ri Kim
YouSun Kin
Go-Woon Koo
Elizabeth Lapena
Seung-Hyun Lee
Shih-Huai Liang
Anna Mizuochi
Lily Rose Peck
Natalya Sverjensky
2006
Hee Kyung Bae
Mathias Dingman
Emilie Drexler
Yui Fukao
Megan Gagnon
Lena Leopold
Caroline Poppell
Caitlin Miller
Seia Rassenti
Anastasia Sinitsyna
Angela Zintchenko
2007
Max Caro
Julianne Deitz
Sasha DeSola
Sae-Hyun Kwon
Kristin Mitchell
Takashi Okita
Mary Jean Stack
2008
Courtni Abell
Cassandra Christian
Mallory Clark
Harmony Cromwell
Gabriel Davidsson
Stefan Drach
Amy Fogarty
Amy Hollinger
Tzu-Ning Hsu
Katelyn Jordan
Min-Woo Kang
Hye-Jee Shin
Natalie Varnum
Elitsa Zafirova
Aya Ishida
Stephanie Eagle
Philip Slocki
2009
Caroline Bird
Jeong-Yoon Chang
Amanda Kate Payne
Nic Gili
Olivia Kelly
Ana Lejava
Ya Meng Lin
Sara Murawski
Kiyota Nomura
Charis Page
Jessica Phillips
Emily Pihlaja
Saya Tanishiki
Alexa Tuzil
2010
Hayoun Chun
Matthew Ebert
Ji Seok Ha
Trevor Hayden
Kiryung Kim
Andrew Pontius
Katia Raj
Melissa Robinson
Simon Wexler
Chiharu Yamamoto
2011
Aliya Cycon
Megan Amanda Ehrlich
Greta Elizondo
Nayun Eom
Polly Haas
Michelle Katcher
Dong-Woo Kim
Mei Kotani
Barbara Lange
Rachel Matney
Ryan Nussear
Nana Yamatani
Patricia Zhou
2012
Bailey Anglin
Alexey Babayev
Carinthia Bank
Kyle Anne Bell
Elizabeth Brennan
Minseo Cha
Maria Giovanna D’Amico
Richard Foggio
Ayaka Fujii
Cecilia Gale Rose
Sehyun Jin
Sydney McBride
Tomo Muranaka
Shela Murphy
Ariana Myers
Madeleine Russel
Shenny Wang
Vivian Wang
Saori Yamashita
2013
Kyle Allen
Adrienne Bot
Debora Davis
Maria Garza
Saki Kagawa
Galya Wolov
2014
Renato De Leon
James Folsom
Michaela Gobas
Cho Al Kim
Ignacio Lopez Toral
April McIlwaine
Emerson Moose
Riho Sakamoto
Karnjanakorn Sapianchai
Megan Streiff
Zane Winders
Kazuki Yagi
2015
Jonathan Barcelos da Silveira
Mara Barros do Nascimento
Francesca Carriedo
Oscar Frame
Leah Morris
Lindsey Wales
Yu-Hsi Wang
2016
Elaine Blank
Halle Cann
Julia Davies
Anna Edmondson
Natsumi Endo
Casey Franklin
Mikayla Geier
Magali Johnston
Kirra Matthews
Yuna Nagaoka
Georgina OCampo
Amy O’Connor
Kanna Watanabe
Alexandra Wilson
2017
Reyna Carrillo
Chia-Yi Cheng
Alexandre Christiansen
Ava Quinn Hilzendeger
Eileen Kim
Caroline Linehan
Felicia Montgomery
Ginette Neveu
Japan Pechploychomphu
Abigail Richards
Valeria Sanchez
Marin Soki
Sandy Tanglaocharoen
2018
Lauren Draper
Doyoon Kim
Kelly Noorloos
Julienne Ramskov
Clare Schweitzer
Pai Supichayanggoon
Ayaka Torii
Elizabeth van Heerden
Sin-Wei Wong
2019
Irene Blanc Zoco
Gabriella Cherrier
Anya Dubsky
Maho Furukawa
Alexandra Huffman
Grace Kang
Yuchan Kim
Yerim Lee
Hannah Richmond
Natsuki Yokota
2020
Alexander Boyd-Smith
Jean Kallenburg
Ariel Keung
Piotr Peczkowski
Beatriz Pina
Andrea Sandoval
Sadie Sanson
2021
Fallon Chicosky
Alyssa L. Kopczynski
Kuan-Lun Li
Kimberly C. Weng
Sumin Lee
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