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Meet Our Modern Faculty
London Mills
London Mills, a 2020 KBB graduate, is a professional dancer and choreographer with Nsquared Contemporary Dance Company.
London studied with Alexandra Koltun and Alex Lapshin at Koltun Ballet Boston after extensive training at New England School of Dance. London has garnered many awards in dance competitions, including Youth America Grand Prix Second Place/Senior Classical Division 2019 (Giselle) and Second Place/Senior Contemporary Division 2018. In 2019, she was the first American to place in the Finals at the Gênée international Ballet Competition in Toronto, Canada.
London has spent 18 years studying classical ballet and 15 years studying modern dance. Additionally, London is proficient in contemporary and jazz dance. London is excited to join our faculty and have the opportunity to pass on her knowledge to the next generation of dancers.
Guest Instructors
Anne Jung
Born in Germany, Anne initially trained intensively in rhythmic gymnastics. At the age of 14, she started classical dance classes, while participating in the Atlanta Olympic Games and in many international competitions as a gymnast. It was then time to choose. Turning towards dance, Anne continued her training at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Köln, from which she graduated in classical and contemporary dance in 2008.
She then took a year off to take part in various artistic projects, notably at the Wuppertal Festival, in Bonn, in Dortmund, in Aix and in Köln. In 2009, she received a scholarship from the Kunststiftung NRW and joined the Ballet Theatre of Mainz in Germany, under the artistic direction of Pascal Touzeau.
In 2014, Anne joined Nederlands Dans Theater I, before becoming a member of the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company in 2017, under the artistic direction of Jacopo Godani.
Drawn to choreography, she created “#onewithtwo” for NDT Switch in 2016, followed by “#twowiththree” and “#threewithfour” for the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company.
Winner of the 2021 Dysart Prize, an award to support promising choreographers, she was commissioned by the Louisville Ballet to create “#fourwithsix”. Anne Jung has also been nominated for the “Benois de la Danse” for Best Dancer in 2021 for “Carnegie Solo” by Samuel You-Wright.
LESLEY TELFORD
Lesley Telford is a choreographer and the Artistic Director of Inverso Productions based in Vancouver, Canada. Through Lesley’s choreographic work she explores the physicality and spatial structures of emotional states at the intersection of dance, the visual arts, text and film. Her work has been described as having “a profound way of tapping into very deep recesses of our emotional and intellectual landscapes”.
Lesley finished her studies in Montreal at L´École Supérieur de Danse du Québec before joining the company Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. She went on to dance with Nacho Duato´s Compañia Nacional de Danza in Madrid, Spain. Most recently she danced with Netherlands Dans Theater 1 where she worked with choreographers such as Jiri Kylian, Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Johan Inger, Crystal Pite and others and performed in major theatres worldwide. She has set and staged the work of Jiri Kylian as well as Lightfoot/Leon.
As a choreographer, she has created several works for Ballet BC as well as with commissions from Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Netherlands Dans Theater 1, Hubbard Street Dance Company 2 (US), Compañia Nacional de Danza (Spain), Ballet Vorpommern (Germany), International Project for Dance in Rome- DAF (Italy), Butler Ballet (US), University of Utah (US) and Arts Umbrella Dance Company, among others. She won the Pretty Creatives choreographic competition at Northwest Dance Project in 2014. Her work has been presented in the CaDance Festival and Korzo Theatre in the Netherlands, International Festival Madrid en Danza and the Reina Sophia Museum in Spain, Chutzpah Festival, the Banff Festival of the Arts, The Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival and the Schmiede Festival. She is the founder of Inverso Productions, a platform for interdisciplinary performance, through which she produced and choreographed 2 full-length works: Brittle Failure which has been a part of tours and festivals in Spain, the Netherlands and Canada and Spooky Action which premiered to enthusiastic reviews.
As a teacher, she has given workshops and classes internationally in many companies and schools such as Ballet BC, Spring Seminar Vancouver, Prague International Contemporary Dance Intensive, Brussels International Ballet School, Antwerp Conservatory, Danscentrum Gothenburg, Madrid Conservatory of Dance, PIES Seminar Argentina, NDT Summer Intensive and NDT educational projects. She teaches classes of repertoire, ballet, contemporary, movement exploration and improvisation/composition. As an educator and mentor, she has a long-standing commitment in support of emerging dance artists and has developed outreach and professional platforms to provide valuable opportunities and experience.
Interested in furthering her artistic research and exploration into the field, she has a Master of Arts in Cultural Production from the joint program of the University of Salzburg and the Mozarteum. Her thesis examined the use of the museum as a performance space for dance. She was also a fellow in a joint research project with the Zurich University of the Arts in 2013. She was selected by Crystal Pite for the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award 2015 as emerging artist in dance.
She is grateful to live and work on the unceded and ancestral territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and
Tsleil-Waututh people.
Fernando Hernando Magadan
Fernando Hernando Magadan is a Spanish dancer and choreographer who originally trained as a professional gymnast becoming a National Champion. He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Dance in Madrid and the London Studio Centre before enrolling at the Central School of Ballet. After dancing for one year in Santamaria Compañia de Danza, he joined the Nederlands Dans Theater ll in 2001, and was later nominated for ‘Outstanding Male Artist’ in the Modern Dance category at the Critic’s Circle National Dance Awards 2003. Fernando was invited to join the Nederlands Dans Theater l in 2004, where he worked with and performed works by renowned choreographers such as Jiri Kylian, Paul Lightfoot, Sol Leon, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Johan Inger and Crystal Pite, among others.
As a choreographer, Fernando has created several works, including pieces for NDT 1 and 2, the Curve Foundation Dance Company (Scotland), Luna Negra Dance Theater (Chicago), Cross Connection Ballet Company (Copenhagen), Ballet Mainz (Germany), Donlon Dance Company (Saarbruecken), Arts Umbrella Dance Company and Ballet BC (Vancouver), Korzo Theater (The Hague). He choreographed Nierka, a multidisciplinary show by visual designer Tupac Martir, which premiered in London in 2012. He has also been invited to present his choreography The Time is a House for the Russian Cultural TV.
Fernando collaborates with the NDT Education Department, and has coordinated the NDT choreographic workshop Switch for several years. He has been invited to teach at the Dance Art Faculty of Rome, Architanz International Centre for Dance in Tokyo, The University of North Carolina, The Incolballet Ballet Institute of Colombia, the Hollins University in New York and the High School for Performing and Visual Arts in Houston. He performed his solo piece Rouse with the Etoiles from the Hamburg Ballet, and has presented it at the Dance Salad Festival 2013 in Houston. His piece Royal Road was performed together with Grammy Award Winners ‘Turtle Island Quartet‘ by the Luna Negra Dance Theater in Chicago. He’s been invited to perform at the Benois de la Danse Gala Performance 2013 at the Bolshoi.
Maggie Foster
Maggie Foster is a contemporary choreographer and dance educator currently located in Boulder, CO. She is originally from Westchester, NY, where she trained and performed with the Westchester Ballet Company. She completed additional pre-professional training and performance opportunities with Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Spellbound Ballet (IT), Movement Invention Project, Karole Armitage Gone! Dance, Alvin Ailey, Colorado Ballet, Boston Ballet, and Ellison Ballet. Maggie received a BFA in contemporary dance performance at The Boston Conservatory of Berklee in Boston, MA, where she developed an interest in choreography. Her contemporary performance and teaching career in Boston led her to Koltun Ballet Boston to join the modern faculty in 2020. Together with Koltun Ballet Boston, Maggie’s commissioned piece “Refugee” came in third place at YAGP Boston regional semi-finals in 2022. Her personal projects have been showcased by The Boston Conservatory at Berklee (Boston) and Avante Garde (Denver), and her choreography has continued to place competitively, including NYCDA in 2023. She is currently a competitive dance judge for the Inferno Dance national tour and is an educator and choreographer in Colorado.
Roman Rykine
Roman Rykine began his training under the direction of Shamil Teregulov at the Rudolph Nureyev State Ballet Academy in his hometown of Ufa, Russia. From early on, Roman was recognized as an exceptionally gifted dancer. While still a student, Roman was given the opportunity to perform the roles of Prince Siegfried in “Swan Lake”, Albrecht in “Giselle”. Mr. Rykine graduated in 1993 and was immediately invited to join the Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theatre as a principal dancer. That same year, he was awarded the Gold Medal and First prize at the International Ballet Competition in Lausanne, Switzerland and a Bronze medal at the Rudolph Nureyev International Ballet Competition in Budapest, Hungary. Mr. Rykine was also awarded the honorary title of “Artist of Merit of the Republic” from the Government of Ufa, Russia in 1993. In 1994, Mr. Rykine received the Bronze Medal at the International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi and was invited to join the English National Ballet as a principal dancer. With the English National Ballet, he starred in a wide range of full-length classical ballets including Rudolph Nureyev’s “Romeo and Juliet”.
Mr. Rykine joined the San Francisco Ballet as a principal dancer in 1996. In his six years with the company, he toured extensively throughout Europe, Japan, China, Korea, Russia and the United States. He danced numerous leading roles in the company’s classical repertoire including Rudolph Nureyev’s “Raymonda” – Act III. Mr. Rykine also excelled in the contemporary and neoclassical repertoire.
Mr. Rykine retired from the stage in 2010 and turned his focus to teaching. He became a guest faculty member at the Boston Ballet School and in 2012 joined the artistic faculty of the Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, Professional Division. During his time with the school Mr. Rykine taught ballet, pas de deux and variation classes to the senior students at the school and prepared them for performances. In 2016, Mr. Rykine joined the Atlanta Ballet as a Ballet Master. As part of the company artistic staff, he also staged Ballets that include Marius Petipa’s “Paquita”“Giselle” and Act III “Swan Lake”, Yuri Possokhov’s Firebird, Liam Scarlett’s “Vespertine”. He also made a significant contribution to the creation of Yuri Possokhov’s “The Nutcracker” for the company.
Currently, he is a guest Ballet Master with The Sarasota Ballet Company as well as freelancer teacher/stager.
Fabrice Herrault
Trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School and a graduate of the Paris Conservatory, Fabrice Herrault went on to dance with renowned ballet companies around the world, including the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Ballets de Marseille Roland Petit, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Hamburg Ballet, and Twyla Tharp Dance.
Fabrice has been a much sought-after ballet master and coach for the past 30 years. In 2007, he opened a studio for private training of professional dancers in NYC. Today his students grace theaters throughout the world, joining companies such as American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Boston Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, and The Royal Ballet.
Fabrice has been on the faculty of American Ballet Theatre’s JKO School, The Ailey School (Professional Division), and Juilliard. He has also served as guest teacher with many dance companies, including Finnish National Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and Alvin Ailey, as well as with schools in Japan.
For over 20 years, Fabrice has taught a popular open class at STEPS on Broadway, attracting such stars as Misty Copeland, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Allegra Kent, Eva Evdokimova, Diana Vishneva, and Danil Simkin.
In 2019, Fabrice served as dance coach for Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o for Jordan Peele’s film “Us.”
Fabrice is also an acclaimed filmmaker and photographer and has, over the years, accumulated one of the largest private collections of rare dance artifacts in the US.