Luba Gulyaeva
Luba Gulyaeva, graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia).

Her instructors include the famous N.V. Baltacheyeva, assistant to A.Y. Vaganova. Ms. Gulyaeva joined the Kirov (Maryinsky) Ballet Company from 1968 to1979 in Leningrad where she performed in ballets such as La Bayadere, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Don Quixote, Swan Lake, La Sylphide, Le Corsair, Nutcracker, Legend of Love, Cinderella and others.

In 1980, Ms. Gulyaeva was invited by Jurgen Schneider to be a faculty member of the Botsford School of Dance in Rochester, New York where she taught intermediate and advanced classical ballet, pointe technique, and variation repertory.

She also coached students for competitions and professional company auditions. From 1988 to 1989, Ms. Gulyaeva was invited by Mikhail Baryshnikov to be a member of the faculty of the American Ballet Theatre School of Classical Ballet where she gave classes to the American Ballet Theatre dancers

From 1989 to 1993, Ms. Gulyaeva was ballet coach at the Steps Ballet Studio in New York City. She also taught master classes at the Australian Ballet School in Melbourne and classes at the School of American Ballet in New York City.

Ms. Gulayaeva has privately coached participants of the International Ballet Competition in Jackson, MS and the Prix de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Today, Ms. Gulyaeva is the Ballet Mistress for the New Jersey Ballet Company in Livingston, New Jersey and where she also teaches at Chris Taylor's North New Jersey School of Dance Arts and the Long Island Dance Center (Eglevsky Ballet Company) in New York.

She guest teaches all over the United States and has guest taught for the Salt Creek Ballet Summer Intensive in the past. . She is well known as one of the finest teachers of the Vaganova ballet system and
classical repertory.

Tatiana N. Legat
Tatiana Legat graduated from the famed Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia.

She was a principal dancer and soloist of the Kirov Theater and toured all over the world with the company. She performed leading roles in Swan Lake, La Bayardere, Giselle, Paquita, Othello, Laurencia, Raymonda, Cinderella, Spartacus, The Nutcracker and many more.

Ms.Legat was a ballet teacher and ballet mistress at the Maryinsky Theater (formerly Kirov) in St. Petersburg, Stanislavsky Opera and Ballet Theatre in Moscow, National Ballet School of England, and Legat Ballet School in England.

She was a teacher of classical ballet at the Boston Ballet Center for Dance Education and the Boston Ballet Company. Her students have received medals at the International Ballet Competition in Nagoya, Japan, International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi, New York International Ballet Competition and Florida American Competition.

Ms. Legat was named the Recipient of the Presidential Scholars Teachers Recognition Award and received a special plaque from the U.S.White House and a letter from Senator Edward Kennedy.

Rosanna Ruffo
Rosanna Ruffo, a native of Panama, is a professor of dance at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.

She began her training at the National Ballet School of Panama and continued as a scholarship student at the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia.

While in Russia, Rosanna performed with the Kirov Ballet (now Maryinsky) in Les Sylphides, The Nutcracker, Paquita, and La Bayadere.

After four years with the Kirov and study with Natalia M. Dudinskaya, Tatiana A. Udalenkova, and Konstantin M. Sergeyev, Ms. Ruffo returned to the National Ballet of Panama as a soloist, performing the leading roles in Swan Lake, Giselle, Les Sylphides, La Bayadere and The Nutcracker.

In 1986, she was one of six finalists in the third USA International Ballet Competition.

In 1988, Ms. Ruffo joined the Indianapolis Ballet Theatre. In her last dance review from Romeo and Juliet, New York Times critic Jack Anderson said, "Rosanna Ruffo was an eager Juliet, who moved lightly and impulsively, as if wanting to soar upward with every step and gesture."

Ms.Ruffo joined the faculty of the Dance Department at Butler University in January 1995.