Masters of Ballet Academy Summer Intensive Course

Artistic Directors: Elena Glurjidze and Olga Semenova

Masters of Ballet Academy (MOBA) runs a non-residential Summer Intensive for one week for girls and boys aged 8 -19. Students will be placed into four classes (Junior, Pre- Senior, Senior & Pre-Professional). Limited places are available.

Students will have the opportunity to work with prolific teachers and ex-professionals worldwide and benefit from their experience dancing in the greatest opera houses, which will prepare them for a potential professional career.

Prolific Special Guest Teacher, to be announced in December!

Click here to see MASTERS OF BALLET INTENSIVES - INTRODUCTION VIDEO

Date: 27th of July to 1st of August 2026

VENUE: SADLER'S WELLS
Rosebery Ave, London EC1R 4TN - London.
Final Gala Performance at Arts Educational School Theatre, London, on the 1st of August.

PRICES:

JUNIORS 8/9/10 years (2 hours per day - NO PHOTO UPLOAD REQUIRED) - £250

SENIORS, PRE PROFESSIONALS (6 hours per day, 11-19 years) - £750

Syllabus

Learn from our Artistic Directors, Elena Glurjidze & Olga Semenova, world-class guest teachers such as Sara Knight, and a special guest teacher to be annoounced in the coming weeks!

Each 6 -hour day consists of Ballet, Character, Pas de Deux, and Neo-Classical/ Contemporary classes.

Elena Glurjidze

Elena Glurdjidze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, and trained at the prestigious Vaganova Academy in St. Petersburg. In 2002, Elena joined English National Ballet as a Principal ballerina and was promoted in 2007 to Lead Principal ballerina. Following her retirement from dancing professionally, Elena and fellow Vaganova Academy graduate Olga Semenova embarked upon an Internationally acclaimed Easter and Summer Intensive programme. In 2017, they created Masters of Ballet Academy, a brand new Vocational style ballet school based on the Vaganova Method of ballet training. Elena Glurjidze's full biography is on our website by clicking the "The Team" section - Founders.

Olga Semenova

Olga trained as a professional ballet dancer at St.Petersburg's prestigious Vaganova Ballet Academy. After her ballet career, she completed a four-year professional teaching/coaching course at the Vaganova Ballet Academy and was awarded the PDTC Diploma with Distinction and MA ( Hons). Olga is our Artistic Director, alongside Elena Glurjidze. She is the most highly regarded Character tutor in the UK, being a guest teacher at different schools (in the UK and abroad). You can find Olga Semenova's full biography on our website by clicking the "The Team" section - Founders.

Sara Knight

Artistic Director of SLK (New York), Co-Founder of the Greenwich Ballet Academy (USA), former guest Soloist and teacher at Boston Ballet Company (USA), and former guest Soloist of Northern Ballet Theatre (UK). You can find Sara Knight's full biography on our website by clicking the "The Team" section - Guest Teachers.

Vlada Kotter

Vlada trained at The Royal Ballet School for seven years. During her years of training at the school, she had many opportunities to perform in productions at The Royal Opera House, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Mariinsky Ballet, Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works and The Nutcracker with The Royal Ballet. At the school, Vlada also won several awards, including the James Monahan Medal for the Most Promising Choreographer and third place in the Ninette de Valois Choreographic Award. Vlada then continued her training at The School of the Hamburg Ballet before joining Masters of Ballet Academy. She is currently a BSc Dance Science student at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.
She has always had a passion for teaching, and in 2022, she completed the ARBTA Associate Teacher Qualification in Classical Ballet. She is thrilled to be joining the Masters of Ballet Academy faculty this year and is very passionate about inspiring and sharing her enthusiasm with her students.

Vivian Triantafyllopolou

Contemporary Teacher
Vivian is an award wining freelance dance artist from Greece based in London with 10 years of professional experience. She has a 1st class BA Contemporary Dance degree from Trinity Laban. She continued as a chosen member of the ‘Akram Khan Experiment’ and then joined Jasmin Vardimon 2, performing a national tour with pieces by Jasmin Vardimon, AΦΕ and Vinicius Salles.

She has performed for Jose Agudo Dance and Theatre Rites in their immersive production for which she got awarded an off west end best performer award along the rest of the cast.She is a dance artist for Alleyne Dance who has been voted as best independent company in Uk by National Dance Awards. She has also performed for WenSin Lee &Elgiva Field, Bittersuite, Vinicius Salles , Fernanda Prata, Ben Judd/Dionysios Tsaftaridis, Emily Robinson Dance, Olga Spyraki, Melanie Lomoff (Lowry and Rambert project), Follow Through collective, Natalie Sloth Richter and others in places like Royal Opera House, Richmix, Sadler’s Wells- Lilian Baylis,,Edinburgh Fringe and others. Vivian was also a dancer and choreographer’s assistant for Hagit Yakira’s projects and rehearsal director for Hagit’s community piece at Royal Albert Hall. She has also curated, choreographed, and performed for Museum of London.

She passionately teaches professionals, adults ,young people and dance companies improvisation, floor work, contemporary technique , choreography and presence training for dancers. She has taught for Rambert, The Place, Laban, Masters of Ballet Academy, English National Ballet, City Lit, Greenwich Dance, Royal Academy of Dance, NDC Wales, Dancce Athens and others. She was also the interim Artistic Director of Trinity Laban Youth Company in 2023. She is a teacher at the Center of Advanced Training at Trinity Laban. Vivian is the founder of a series of workshops ; 'Energy and flow', a contemporary dance workshop and 'Movement waves' a community improvisation workshop which happens in and by the sea.

Vivian’s professional company work as a choreographer has been supported by Arts Council England, Tripspace, Laban and she has choreographed also for youth groups and commissions, as well as movement directing for films.She has created with her own company long work ‘Ego Mas’ , a short duet ‘Greener Grass’ , the short dance film ‘I am’ and many commissioned works for professionals and youth companies.

Sereina Mowlem (Rainy)

Stamina, Stretch & Conditioning Teacher
Rainy trained as a classical dancer at Central School of Ballet in London.

Whilst training, she performed with the English National Ballet Company in productions such as Swan Lake (The Royal Albert Hall), Le Corsaire (The London Coliseum) and Nutcracker (The London Coliseum), in which she played the role of 'Young Clara'.

In 2019 she decided to take her love of Health and Fitness to a new level by enrolling at YMCA Fit in central London and training as a Level 3 Fitness Instructor and Personal Trainer. She personally trains dancers from The Royal Ballet School, Polish National Ballet School, Central School of Ballet and Ballet Theatre UK.

As well as training our students, she privately coaches students at The Royal Ballet School (Richmond), Central School of Ballet (London), The Vaganova Academy (St. Petersburg), Polish National Ballet School (Warsaw), Ballet Theatre UK (Leicestershire) and London Studio Centre (London).

Rainy thrives on building a strong and productive relationship with her students. She has a warm, fun and motivating approach.

How to Apply

Please click the link to fill out the application form. Please include the requested photographs.

Other information

• Students will be placed into one of three different Class Groups (Junior, Senior and Pre-Professional).
• Students and their parents/guardians must accept assignments in groups. The Artistic Directors will place them into specific groups to achieve the maximum benefit for each student and the group as a whole. The decision is based on the student's ability, suitability for the group, training requirements, and age. The Artistic Directors can make any changes during the course at their sole discretion.
• The training runs from 10 am to 4 pm, with a lunch break and short break.
• All the logistical information will be sent as soon as you receive the confirmation of your place, following your application with supporting photographs.
• All students will receive a Certificate of Completion, signed by the teachers.
• On Saturday, 1st of August, parents will be able to observe students' work at The Arts Educational Theatre, London W4.

For any inquiries about the Summer Intensive Course, please email fiona@mastersofballetacademy.com.