Meet Lada Romanova
Former professional ballet artist and classical ballet coach with Vaganova-based training, 300+ stage performances, and more than eight years of teaching experience. Her work brings together professional performance, pedagogy, and a precise understanding of classical technique.
Teaching in Practice
BARRE TECHNIQUE & PLACEMENT MASTERCLASS · MEXICO
A detailed masterclass devoted to body placement, port de bras, turnout, and the precision required for clean barre work.
CLASSICAL BALLET MASTERCLASS · MEXICO
A complete class built around musical phrasing, movement quality, stamina, and the ability to carry technique into centre work.
A LIFE SHAPED BY MOVEMENT
My journey in movement began at the age of three with rhythmic gymnastics. I trained for more than ten years at the Deriugina School in Kyiv, one of Ukraine’s most renowned rhythmic gymnastics schools, known for producing world and Olympic champions. In the later years of my competitive career, I trained under Viktoria Bessonova, and Anna Bessonova. I became a Candidate for Master of Sport and earned a silver medal at the Ukrainian Championships. Those years shaped my understanding of discipline, coordination, flexibility, strength, and the physical awareness required to develop mastery.
I later transitioned into classical ballet and continued my professional training at the Serge Lifar Kyiv Municipal Academy of Dance, studying within the Vaganova tradition. After completing four years of professional ballet education, I continued at the bachelor’s level, earning qualifications in dance pedagogy, choreography, and classical ballet performance.
My career then took me from the studio to the professional stage. As a ballet artist, I appeared in more than 300 performances and performed internationally across Europe, the United States, and Latin America, including France, Norway, Sweden, and Belgium. Later in my performing career, I also had the opportunity to take on solo roles.
Teaching has been a constant part of my professional life for more than eight years. I have worked with children, young dancers, and adults internationally, leading classical ballet classes, workshops, and intensives. In the United States, my teaching expanded to approximately 150 students, alongside creating choreography for young dancers.
Today, private coaching brings these experiences together. I work with dancers preparing for auditions, ballet school admissions, competitions, and performances, as well as students seeking to deepen their classical training. I also welcome adults returning to ballet, reconnecting with previous training, or looking for a more focused way to continue their practice.
A THOUGHTFUL APPROACH TO CLASSICAL BALLET
Classical ballet is built over years. There are no shortcuts to true technique — it develops through consistency, discipline, intelligent training, and an understanding of how the body moves.
My approach is rooted in the Vaganova tradition while also drawing from years of professional performance, teaching, rhythmic gymnastics, and working closely with individual dancers. Rather than applying the same exercises to every student, I build the coaching process around the person in front of me — their training history, anatomy, strengths, limitations, goals, movement patterns, and previous injuries.
Technique, flexibility, strength, and mobility should develop together. I pay close attention to alignment, coordination, core stability, active flexibility, control, and the strength required to support a greater range of motion safely. The goal is not simply to achieve a position, but to help the dancer understand how that position functions in movement and how to use it with control.
I also believe that technical progress should never come at the expense of artistry. Classical ballet demands precision, but it is not mechanical. Musicality, expression, presence, and the ability to connect movement with emotion are what allow technique to become dance rather than a sequence of positions.
Beyond technique, I believe ballet remains profoundly human. In a world where more and more can be created artificially, movement still comes from a real body, a real experience, and a real emotion. Technique gives a dancer the vocabulary — but artistry is what allows them to say something with it.
Whether I am preparing a young dancer for an audition, competition, ballet school admission, or professional training program, or working with an adult returning to ballet after time away, my purpose remains the same: to create thoughtful training that helps each dancer become stronger, more technically confident, more aware of their body, and more expressive in their movement.
READY TO WORK TOGETHER?
If you’re ready to take the next step in your training, explore private coaching options and choose the format that best supports your goals.