Oleg Briansky Founder and Director

As both premier danseur and choreographer, Mr. Briansky has performed with such renowned companies as the Ballet des Champs-Elysees, the Ballet de Paris, London Festival Ballet (English National Ballet) the New York Metropolitan Opera Ballet, the Munich Opera Ballet, the Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires and the Chicago Opera Ballet. During his career he has also partnered many leading ballerinas Margot Fonteyn, Maria Tallchief and Violette Verdy to name a few.

Internationally respected, Mr. Briansky has served on the jury of the Prix de Lausanne and ballet competitions in Nyon, Switzerland, Osaka, Japan, and Jackson, Mississippi.

Mr. Briansky served as the Associate Artistic Director of the Ballet de Rio de Janeiro, and Artistic Director of "Children of Theatre Street," the feature documentary film and Academy Award nomination about the Vaganova Choreographic Institute in Leningrad. He has also translated "100 Lessons in Classical Ballet" by Vera Kostrovitskaya of the Vaganova Institute and "Classes in Classical Ballet" by Asaf Messerer, ballet master of the Bolshoi Ballet.

An international teacher and coach, Mr. Briansky has directed principal dancers from the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, the Boston Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada. His ballet "Scheherazade", "The Firebird", are in the repertory of the Ballet Memphis and the Southern Ballet Theatre in Orlando.

Mireille Briane Co-Founder and Co-Director

Shortly after beginning her ballet training at eight years old with the Paris Opera, Ms. Briane was performing in the famous children's ballet "L'Eventail de Jeanne." At sixteen years she became a principal dancer at the Grand Theatre of Bordeaux, France. Since then she has appeared with the Ballets de Paris, the Chicago Opera Ballet and London Festival Ballet (English National Ballet).

Ms. Briane has directed highly successful children's ballets for Radio Television Francaise and created a year-long series of educational ballet programs for Britain's Independent Radio Television. She also led her own ballet school in London.

As choreographer of "The Nutcracker" for the Ballet de Rio de Janeiro she guided a cast of over 250, and later restaged it for the Garden State Ballet and the Omaha Ballet. Eventually she returned to the Ballet de Rio de Janeiro to teach company classes and stage "The Nutcracker" once again.

Lured back to the States by George Balanchine, Ms. Briane joined the faculty of the School of American Ballet, and then continued on to teach the Dance Theatre of Harlem and the Alvin Ailey School of Dance. She is currently co-director, with her husband, of the Ballet Guild of the Lehigh Valley in Bethlehem, PA.