Birthplace: Springerville, AZ.
Training: Phoenix School of Ballet, Dance Incorporated, University of Arizona.
Joined Trockadero: January 2010.
Previous Companies: David Taylor Dancer Theater, Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, Center Dance Ensemble, Scorpius Dance Theater
DORIS VIDANYA. The legendary Vitebsk Virago, first achieved recognition as a child performer, appearing with the famous Steppe Brothers in the world premiere of Dyspepsiana (based on a unfinished paragraph by M. Gorki). As a favorite of Nicholas, Alexandra, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and the czarevich, La Effhrvia, as she is known to her admirers, was compelled to flee St. Petersburg disguised as a. Karsky shashlik Upon arrival in the new World, she established herself as the Prima Ballerina Assoluta de Kalamazoo, a title she still retains.
ILYA BOBOVNIKOV is known only to the most cultured and refined balletomanes in the dark alleyways of St. Petersburg. Originally a promising dancer-choreographer with the Maryinsky, his only ballet, “Le Dernier Mohicain,” was stolen by the director of the company. In severe depression and shock, he burned his ballet slippers and fled to the sewers, only to surface these forty years later.