Leonid Shagalov
14355 SW Pacific Hwy
Leonid Shagalov studied at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and GITIS under Asaf and Sulamith Messerer.
- Former soloist, Berezka ensemble
- Character dance, San Francisco Ballet School
- A memoir of Berezka's tours, 2023
- Choreography for Northwest Dance Theatre
- Weekly folk dance class in Tigard
For fifteen years he danced with the Berezka ensemble, touring 35 countries; among the numbers he performed were Prazdnichnaya and Kazachok (both 1976) and Polzunok (1980). He wrote Discovering the World: Through the Eyes of a Soviet Dancer, a book about the ensemble behind the scenes. For ten years he taught character dance at the San Francisco Ballet School; his students dance with SF Ballet and Oregon Ballet Theatre.
On his method: the Moldovan moldoveneasca builds coordination, the Hungarian csárdás teaches épaulement for pirouettes, the Russian trepak teaches drawing power from the plié. Today he teaches Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian and Moldovan folk dance at a studio in Tigard.
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