Ballet: Ms. Shevchenko graduated from the Kiev Academy of Ballet, Ukraine with a Bachelor of Arts Degree and was awarded the Laureate in National Competition of Art, Kiev in 1984 and 1986. She was a principal dancer for the Moldova Academy Theatre of Opera & Ballet, Ukraine and danced in 1983 with the Bolshoi Theater in Russia. Her repertoire of classics includes Odetta, Giselle, Juliet, Swanilda, Snow White, Octavia, Aurora, Sylphide, among many others. She has taught extensively from 1982 until the present throughout Russia and came to the the United States in 1996. She also teaches with the Atlanta Ballet.