Valery Lantratov: Master Class Instructor
Valery Lantratov is the Artistic Director of the Russian National Ballet Foundation. He has had a career with the Moscow Stanislavski Ballet, was named the “People’s Artist of Russia” in 1997, and spent some time as a guest teacher at Boston Ballet.

    
                     

Marlene Skog: Summer Workshop Faculty
Marlene Skog, born in Brooklyn, New York, received her B.A. in Dance from Adelphi University and M.F.A. in Theatre Arts-Dance from The University of Arizona. As a free-lance artist she taught, choreographed and performed in the New York City area, thenventured abroad for a fourteen-year residency in Sweden. She returned home receiving various cultural prizes awarded for high artistic achievement and educational standard.

From 1983-97, she lived in Uppsala Sweden and founded Uppsala Dansakademin, which after five years became the center for dance in Uppsala serving a student population of approximately 800. She developed curriculum for professional dance studies and implemented the program with support of the Swedish State and approval by the Swedish Professional Dance Board.

Ms. Skog directed and choreographed for her company of professional dancers including artists from Russia, South Korea, Australia, Finland and Sweden. In 1990, the late Birgit Cullberg joined Marlene presenting a concert proclaimed as “dance event of the year”. Skog was commissioned to choreograph for official cultural events including the International Arts Festival in Norway 1994, the Scandinavian Cultural Conference at Uppsala’s Palace in 1997 and Uppsala’s historical Pumphouse Museum. She was guest choreographer/performer at the International Women’s Convention at Uppsala University and introduced on national Swedish television.

At The University of Arizona, Ms. Skog received the award for Creative Achievement, became the first recipient of the prestigious Green Valley Concert Association Fellowship Award and had work performed at the King’s Palace in Edinborough Scotland. She has served on distinguished academic committees and presented research at the National Dance Education Organization’s 2002 conference. Presently, Ms. Skog is full-time
faculty associate at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, teaching ballet, repertory, composition and dance history.