Kalina Bogoeva Foundation

Kalina Bogoeva Foundation has been established with the goal to stimulate and support creative and social initiative in the field of ballet and dance. The purpose of the Foundation is to organize and realize training seminars, courses, festivals, contests, conferences, meetings of artists. The major aim of the Foundation is to stimulate and help the development of talented young dancers.

 

Kalina Bogoeva

One of the best known ballerinas of Bulgaria who has created numerous roles on the stage of the National Opera and Ballet Theatre in Sofia and in many countries in Europe and America. Student of the notable Bulgarian ballet pedagogue Lili Beron, Kalina Bogoeva made her stage debut in 1954. After that she continued her education in the Academic Choreographic School in Moscow under the world-famous teacher Elizaveta Pavlovna Gerdt. Later, in 1985 Bogoeva graduated from the High Theatre Institute in Moscow as a ballet-master-producer. At the same time she passed a training course on ballet pedagogy /Jemchujina/ and another course on ballet critique and journalism /Eliach/.

Kalina Bogoeva has 20 years of stage career. She danced numerous main parts in classical and contemporary ballets. She had active concert career as well. Her creative contribution is impressive and rates her among the most prominent contributors to Bulgarian culture.

Kalina Bogoeva is renowned as an authority in the field of ballet pedagogy. She conducted seminars on ballet methodology in many countries and her work in this field still continues with great success.

In 1992 Kalina Bogoeva established Varna International Ballet Academy in cooperation with the Varna Opera House and the Municipality of Varna. Every year the Academy holds qualification theoretical and practical seminars in the field of classical dance.

In 1996 Kalina Bogoeva established Margarita Arnaudova contest for young choreographers /named after this well known Bulgarian choreographer, founder of the Arabesque ballet/.

In 1993 Kalina Bogoeva initiated and introduced the subject Ballet Pedagogy in the curriculum of Pancho Vladigerov National Music Academy in Sofia. Through 1974 to 1983 she was teacher and artistic director of the State Choreographic School in Sofia.
At present Bogoeva is director of the Ballet Pedagogy Department in the National Music Academy. Concurrently she works as methodological director of the Classical Dance Department in the State Choreographic School in Sofia.

Kalina Bogoeva is winner of numerous artistic and state awards. She is laureate of the Varna Intrenational Ballet Competition /1964/.