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 - Ballet Master
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
Taras Vanouvskyy
EDUCATION:
Lviv University, Lviv, Ukraine — 1994 - 1998
- Faculty of Law - graduated with Law Diploma
DANCE TRAINING:
Ukrainian Institute of Culture (Kiev) — 1989 - 1994
- Faculty of Choreography - graduated with Diploma of Choregraphy
Unist School of Dance — 1980 - 1985
PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE:
Shumka ( Edmonton) - Soloist — 2000 - 2002
Unist (Liviv) - ongoing positions — 1987 - 1999
Virsky Ensemble (Kiev) — 1992 - 1993
Lviv Opera and Ballet Theatre - soloist — 1993 - 1997
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Iskra School of Dance - Edmonton — 2001 - 2002
Sopilka School of Dance - Vegreville — 2001 - 2002
Shumka School of Dance - Edmonton — 2001 - 2002
Viter Dancers - Edmonton - instructor — 2001 - 2002
Wasketenau Pryvit Dancers - Wasketenau — 2001 - 2002
Vilna Vaselka Dancers - Vilna — 2001 - 2002
Dunai Dancers - Edmonton — 2001 - 2002
Barvinok Ukrainian Dance Society - Calgary - workshop — 2002
Trembita Ensemble & School - Artistic Director — 1999 - 2000
Unist Ensemble & Unist School of Dance — 1994 - 1999
Avramenko Ukrainian Dance Institute - Lviv — 1994 - 1999
Yevshan Dance Ensemble - Saskatoon — 1993
Barvinok Ukrainian Dance Society — 2002 - present
Corey Jasinski - Assistant
DANCE TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:
Barvinok Ukrainian Dance Society — 13 years
Ukrainian Regional Dance Workshops - Lviv, Kiev, Uzhorod,Ukraine — 2000
Ukrainian Dance Workshop — 1999
AUDA Summer Workshops — 3 years
Suzirya Ukrainian Dance Theatre (founded Dec. 2004) — 3.5 years
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Barvinok Ukrainian Dance Society - Instructors Assistant — 2006-present
DANCE PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE:
Ukrainian Dance Competitions — 13 years
Chinese Businessman's Association Mayor's Dinner — 1998
Hopak in The Park - Edmonton — 1997 & 2004
Grandstand - Calgary Stampede — 2005
Globalfest — 2004 & 2005
Alberta Centennial Royal Visit — 2005
Kimberly International Folk Festival — 2005 & 2006
Dauphin Ukrainian Dance Festival — 2006
"Kateryna" tour (Edmonton and Calgary) — 2007
San Diego Festival — 2007
