Pre Professional 2

Mia
Mia began dancing at age 6 and has trained at Odasz Dance Theatre since age 14. She has also trained at intensives including Ballet Jazz Montreal, The Rock School for Dance Education and Colorado Ballet. She has also attended the Complexions Winter Intensive.
Her performance credits include roles in the State Ballet of Ukraine's productions of Swan Lake, Cinderella & The Nutcracker, as well as Rochester City Ballet's productions of Cinderella and The Nutcracker. She was also a featured dancer in the original production The Painter at the Rochester Fringe Festival for multiple years.
In addtion she performed in Cinderella, presented by both the Misty Copeland Foundation and the Open World Dance Foundation.
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Her competition highlights include YAGP Semi-Finals Top 24 in Classical and Top 12 in Contemporary, NYCDA Outstanding Dancer Runner-Up and Top 10 Platinum solo.
Her favorite dance move is pirouettes.

Gabija
Gabija began dancing at age 5 and has trained at Odasz Dance Theatre since age 12.
Her performance credits include roles in the State Ballet of Ukraine’s productions of Swan Lake, Cinderella & Nutcracker. She also participated in the YAGP Grand Defilé during the Youth America Grand Prix 25th Anniversary Gala at Lincoln Center.
Her competition highlights include YAGP Semi-Finals Top 12 Classical Junior and 2nd Place Contemporary Junior, Top 12 Classical Senior and 1st Place Contemporary Senior.
Her favorite dance move is a renversé.

Victoria
Victoria began dancing at age 4 and has trained at Odasz Dance Theatre since age 14.
Her performance credits include roles in the State Ballet of Ukraine’s productions of Swan Lake & Nutcracker. Along with theatre productions of Chicago and Footloose.
Her favorite dance move is tour en l’air, but as a tapper she also loves flying shuffles.

Arabella Y
Arabella Y began dancing at age 3 and has trained at Odasz Dance Theatre since age 11.
Her performance credits include roles in the State Ballet of Ukraine’s productions of Swan Lake, Cinderella & Nutcracker.
Her competition highlights include YAGP Semi-Finals 3rd Place Contemporary Junior. Additional achievements include Empire Dance Challenge Elite Platinum Junior Contemporary and Platinum Junior Classical with 5th Place Overall Junior Division, Rising Star Classical 1st Place & Contemporary 1st Place with Top 3 Overall.
Her favorite dance move is floor work.

Winnie
Winnie began dancing at age 2 and has trained at Odasz Dance Theatre since age 4.
Her performance credits include roles in the State Ballet of Ukraine's productions of Swan Lake, Cinderella & The Nutcracker, as well as Rochester City Ballet's The Nutcracker.
Her competition highlights include YAGP Semi-Finals Top 24 & Top 12 Contemporary Pre-Competitive, YAGP Finals with both classical and contemporary ensembles from Odasz. Additional achievements include Empire Dance Challenge Elite Platinum Junior Contemporary and Platinum Junior Classical with 7th Place Overall Junior Division, Rising Star Level Three Junior Solo 2nd Place.
Her favorite dance move are extensions and tilts.


Katherine
Katherine began dancing at age 4 and has trained at Odasz Dance Theatre since age 15. She has also trained at intensives including Joffrey Ballet School, NYC and Conservatório Internacional de Ballet e Dança Annarella Sanchez, Leiria, Portugal. She is also a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (IC:EX) Gen 4 and has attended their Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 Intensives. She will perform with IC:EX in Summer 2026 at the Ravenna Festival in Italy.
Her performance credits include roles in the State Ballet of Ukraine's productions of Swan Lake, as well as Rochester City Ballet's production of The Nutcracker.
Her competition highlights include YAGP Semi-finals for her solos and finals with both classical and contemporary ensembles from Odasz.
Her favorite dance move is pirouette.

Dakota
Dakota began dancing at age 7 and has trained at Odasz Dance Theatre since age 14. She has also trained at intensives including Joffrey Ballet School, Chicago.
Her performance credits include roles in the State Ballet of Ukraine’s productions of Swan Lake & Nutcracker.
Her competition highlights include YAGP Semi-finals for her solos and finals with both classical and contemporary ensembles from Odasz. Additional achievements include Empire Dance Challenge Platinum Tap, Jazz & HipHop, in10sity Platinum HipHop 4th Overall, Fly Dance Competition HipHop Platinum with 1st, Hall of Fame Platinum Tap and Nationals Platinum Tap.
Her favorite dance move is an arabesque.

Arabella M
Arabella M began dancing at age 3 and has trained at Odasz Dance Theatre since age 11. She has also trained at intensives including Paris Opera Ballet School, Royal Ballet School, Bolshoi Ballet Academy (US) and John Cranko School (US). She has also attended DUCON & YGP Dance Lab Barcelona.
Her performance credits include roles in the State Ballet of Ukraine’s productions of Swan Lake, Cinderella & Nutcracker, as well as Rochester City Ballet’s productions of Anastasia & Nutcracker. She also took participated in the YAGP Grand Defilé during YAGP's 25th Anniversary Gala at the Lincoln Center, NYC.
Her competition highlights include YAGP Semi-Finals Top 24 & Top 12 Classical Junior and Top 24 Contemporary Junior, Top 12 Classical Pre-Competitive, ADC/IBC 11th Classical Junior & 7th Contemporary Junior, ICONS Dance Awards Top 3 & Gala Performance Invitee, NYCDA Outstanding Dancer Runner Up & Platinum Solo, 24 Seven Stop the Clock Junior Top 5.
Her favorite dance move are hops en pointe.

Emmie
Emmie began dancing at age 4 and has trained at Odasz Dance Theatre since age 10. She has also trained at intensives including Ballet Jazz Montreal, Ballet Hispanico and Nervi Ballet Festival. She has also attended the Complexions Winter Intensive and Steps on Broadway Elite Dance Intensive.
Her performance credits include roles in the State Ballet of Ukraine productions of Swan Lake, Cinderella, and The Nutcracker, as well as performances with Rochester City Ballet, where she appeared as Clara in The Nutcracker, Young Anastasia in Anastasia, and in Cinderella.
She also performed in MOSAIC, choreographed by Mimmo Miccolis for the ADCIBC 20th Gala, and in Maestro by Maria Konrad at the Nervi International Ballet Festival. Emmie was also a featured dancer in the original production The Painter at the Rochester Fringe Festival for multiple years.
Her competition highlights include ADCIBC Top 5 in both Classical and Contemporary, YAGP Top 12 in Contemporary, NYCDA Outstanding Dancer Runner-Up and Top 10 Platinum solo.
Her favorite dance move are hops en pointe.

K'lynn
K'lynnn began dancing at age 5 and has trained at Odasz Dance Theatre since age 8.
Her performance credits include roles in the State Ballet of Ukraine’s productions of Swan Lake, Cinderella & Nutcracker. Along with dance performances in her school productions of the Wizard of Oz and Elf.
Her competition highlights include YAGP Semi-finals for her solos and finals with both classical and contemporary ensembles from Odasz.
Her favorite dance move is an arabesque.

