Teachers

VICTORIA MIRONOVA

Founder of our School and Artistic Director

VICTORIA MIRONOVA, M. Ed. is an accomplished Russian ballerina, ballet instructor and choreographer who lives and works in Vaughan, Ontario. She is the founder and Artistic Director of Victoria Ballet Company and Victoria International Ballet Academy, the only private school in York Region that offers both a K-12 Ontario certified curriculum, and a daily professional ballet program.

The groundwork for this unique institution was laid by a young and talented Mironova, back in 1977, when she graduated from St. Petersburg’s renowned Vaganova Ballet Academy. After gaining 21 years of professional dance experience, Ms. Victoria, as she is respectfully called by all her students, went on to earn a five year university degree from the Pedagogical Department of the Vaganova Academy. Her major in teaching choreographic disciplines according to the Vaganova syllabus, has led her exactly where she planned to be, running her own school and ballet company in Canada. Ms. Victoria obtained her knowledge of the Vaganova syllabus directly from Natalia Dudinskaya, a student of Agrippina Vaganova, thus becoming part of the second generation of teachers to master this world-renowned syllabus.

ELENA DMITRIEVA

Senior Ballet Teacher and VBC's Choreographer

Elena Dmitrieva graduated from the Vaganova ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1977. She began her 25-year-long career as a Classical Ballet dancer with the St. Petersburg Opera Theatre Conservatory, becoming a principal ballerina in a very short time. Ms. Elena Dmitrieva was also a leading ballerina at the Mikhailovsky State Opera and Ballet Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2001 Ms. Elena received her Master’s Degree in Ballet Pedagogy and Choreography from the Vaganova Ballet Academy and she is part of the second generation of Russian Ballet professors who obtained their knowledge of the the world-renowned Vaganova syllabus from Natalia Dudinskaya who was a student of Agrippina Vaganova herself. Currently, Ms. Elena is a senior Ballet Master with Victoria International Ballet Academy and a Choreographer for Victoria Ballet Company. She has been a guest teacher for many ballet programs in Japan, Russia, USA and Canada.

Kirill Lordski

Ballet and Contemporary Dance Teacher

Kirill Lordski trained at Victoria International Ballet Academy and later he continued his training in Jazz, Contemporary, and Modern dance. He is a gold medal recipient in competitions across Canada and the U.S.A. Kirill first joined Canada’s Ballet Jorgen and later he performed with the National Ballet of Canada under the direction of the world recognized choreographer John Neumeier. He is a principal dancer with Victoria Ballet Company. In 2017 Kirill graduated from the Toronto Film School. He performed as a dancer and actor on the Netflix series “Tiny Pretty Things”

Elizaveta Mironova

General Manager and Ballet Teacher

Elizaveta Lordski, alumna of Victoria International Ballet Academy, received her Ballet Dancer Diploma upon completing the choreographic studies in 2011. After graduating, Elizaveta trained at the Vaganova Ballet Academy and the Kiev State Ballet School.

In 2014, Elizaveta joined the Moscow State Ballet Theatre. She has also been a Principal Dancer with Victoria Ballet Company since 2014. In 2015, Elizaveta attended the University of Theatre Arts in Moscow, Russia, majoring in Pedagogy and Choreography. Since her return to Canada, she has been one of the principal teachers at Victoria International Ballet Academy. Elizaveta also studied Business Administration at McMaster University, and has been the Manager at Victoria International Ballet Academy since 2019.

Alejandra Oliveros

Ballet Teacher

Alejandra Oliveros graduated as a ballerina from the professional division of Victoria International Ballet Academy in 2022 under the mentorship of Ms. Elena Dmitrieva and Ms. Victoria Mironova, both professional ballerinas and qualified ballet teachers from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in Russia. Before that, she studied at Consejo de Arte y Danza Internacional with Ms. Deniza Kuznechonkova, a professional ballerina who graduated from the Bolshoi Ballet School, Russia. Alejandra is qualified to teach ballet classes according to the Vaganova technique for ballet levels one through five. Presently, Alejandra is taking a ballet teacher’s course at Victoria International Ballet Academy, to teach ballet at higher professional levels. Alejandra won a full scholarship for the Summer Course at the Valentina Kozlova Conservatory in New York, and for the Elite Ballet Workshop in Bucharest, Romania, she was chosen to perform in Cinderella in Mexico City, and selected for a reality show.

She has performed in ballets such as Flames of Paris, Coppelia, Paquita and more.

Victoria International Ballet Academy is proud to have Alejandra as a member of its team!

Anastasia Loskutov

Ballet Teacher

Alumna of ASAC, Anastasia received her Ballet Dancer Diploma in 2011 and soon after, she was invited to join the Boston Ballet II Training Program. In 2012, Anastasia attended the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia as a trainee.

Anastasia joined the South Carolina Ballet Company in 2013 as a soloist and has been a guest Principal Dancer with Victoria Ballet Company since 2014.

Since her return to Canada, Anastasia has worked as one of the principal teachers at

VIBA and has successfully graduated and obtained a degree in Environmental Studies from York

University.
Currently she is taking a break from teaching and we hope to have her soon again with us!

“Go further than you have ever dreamed.”

– Victoria Mironova

Victoria International
Ballet Academy

Classes for adults

Classes include conditioning exercises, stretching, ballet technique, pointe work (for intermediate students) and the opportunity to participate in Victoria Ballet Company’s productions.