Our Instructors
Trevor Shular - Artistic Director & Business Manager
DANCE TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:
St. Stephen's Culture Class — 4 years
Yalenka Ukrainian Dance Ensemble — 6 years
Ballet - Susie Von Kellerman — 1 year
Tryzub Ukrainian Dance Ensemble (Awakenings Can. & Australian tour 2001-2004) — 15 years
Volya Ukrainian Dance Ensemble — 3 years
Suzirya Ukrainian Dance Theatre (founded Dec. 2004) — 4 years
INSTRUCTOR AND DANCE WORKSHOPS:
Alberta Ukrainian Dance Association (AUDA) — 1988
- Professional Dance Teacher's Program Instructed by Neil Prokop & Victor Stepovy
Altanets Instructors Workshop
- Instructed by Shirley Murray & Bohdan Zerebecky — 1989
Altanets Instructors Workshop
- Instructed by Anne K. Brown & Bohdan Zerebecky — 1990
AUDA Senior Level Regional Workshop
- Instructed by Serhij Koroliuk — 1993
AUDA Senior Level Regional Workshop
- Instructed by Petro Neborskij — 1994
Institute of Ukrainian Folk Dance - Lviv,Ukraine Instructed by State Honored Artists — 1994-1997
AUDA Instructors Workshop
- Instructed by Vasile Kanevets — 1995
Verkhovyna Ukrainian Dance Workshop - New York — 1996
- Instructed by Roma Pryma Bohachevsky — 1998-1999
AUDA Senior Level Regional Workshop — 1997
- Instructed by Bohdan & Svitlana Tkachyshyn
Tropak Ukrainian Dance Theatre Workshop
- Instructed by Serhij Makarov — 1996/1997/1998
ADJUDICATOR EXPERIENCE
Kalyna Ukrainian Dance Festival Yorkton, Saskatchewan — 2003
Barveenok Ukrainian Dance Festival, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan — 2004
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
St. Stephen's Culture Class — 7 years
Barvinok Ukrainian Dance Ensemble — 20 years
Zirka Ukrainian Dance Ensemble ( Med. Hat ) — 8 years
Troyanda Society of Ukrainian Dance (Grande Prairie) — 2 years
"Kvitka" Ukrainian Dancers (Red Deer) — 4 years
OTHER:
Tryzub Business Manager — 1988 - 1989
Tryzub Chairman of Fundraising — 1988 - 1997
Tryzub Manager of Touring — 1989 - 1992
Tryzub Chairman of Costumes — 1995
Barvinok Business Manager — 1990 - present
AUDA Director — 1993 - 1996,2006 - present
Southern Alberta Ukrainian Dance Festival Chairman — 1997 - present
Volya Youth Showcase — 1999 - 2000
Tryzub Business Manager — 2002-2005
Suzirya Business Manager — 2005 - present
Serguei Makarov - Instructor
EDUCATION:
Ukrainian State Dance Company of Pavlo Virsky, Kyiv, Ukraine — 1970-1973
- Virsky Ballet Studio Training
Kharkiv Ballet School, Kharkiv, Ukraine - Ballet (Vaganova) Training — 1962-1970
DANCE EXPERIENCE:
Hopak Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, Kyiv, Ukraine - Artistic Director & Dancer — 1909-1993
Ukrainian State Dance Company of Pavlo Virsky, Kyiv, Ukraine - Soloist — 1973-1990
TEACHING EXPERIENCE/CHOREOGRAPHY:
Tryzub Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, Calgary - Artistic Director — 2001-2004
Tropak Ukrainian Dance Theatre, Vancouver - Artistic Director — 1994-2001
Small Steps, Big Footprints - Tryzub Ukrainian Dance Ensemble - Production — 2001
Dancing the Dream, Tropak Ukrainian Dance Theatre - Full length production — 1996-2000
Hava Nagila, Shalom Jewish Dance Ensemble, Vancouver — 1999
Vaganova Ballet &Character for Arts Umbrella, Vancouver - Master class — 1996
Shumka Ukrainian Dance Ensemble - Classical Ballet(Vaganova)&Ukrainian Dance — 1996
Veselka Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, Victoria — 1994
Volya Ukrainian Dance Ensemble - Vaganova Ballet & Ukrainian Dance — 1994
Hopak Ensemble - Full length production which toured Canada & US — 1993
Royal Winnipeg Ballet - Master classes — 1993
Rusalka Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, Winnipeg - Master classes — 1993
Kyiv Ballet School in Vaganova, Kyiv, Ukraine - Master class — 1986
Ukrainian State Dance Company of Pavlo Virsky, Kyiv, Ukraine — 1984-1988
- Master classes in Vaganova Ballet
Suzirya Ukrainian Dance Theatre - Artistic Director (founded Dec. 2004) — 2005 - present
Barvinok Ukrainian Dance Society — 2004 - present
RELATED EXPERIENCES:
Volunteer Director of Tropak Ukrainian Dance Theatre performing Hopak's — 1999
- "Dancers For Life", a dance celebration for AIDS
Andrea Jasinski - Ballet Mistress
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Education University of Alberta
DANCE TRAINING:
Ballet Grade 8, Majors
Ukrainian Regional Dance Workshops — 2000
Ukrainian Dance Workshops — 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000
PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE:
Hopak in the Park Edmonton — 2000, 2002-2005
Tryzub — 2002-2004
Suzirya — 2008 - present
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Tryzub Dance Ensemble — 2 years
Barvinok Ukrainian Dance Society — 2002 - present
