Violeta Alexandrova Angelova

Ballerina, Artist

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Vio's artistic ways began in her native Bulgaria. She attended at her mother’s dance school, some sports and actively performed before graduating with high honors from the National School of Dance Art-Bulgaria and the Vienna State Opera Ballet School in Austria, where she was a scholarship student. Vio has been invited to represent Bulgaria at the Royal Festival of Arts in Jordan among a number of international ballet events. She has extensively toured the United States, dancing as a guest artist or with a company and was invited to dance at the International Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland and the Opera and Ballet Festival in St.Petersburg, Russia. The companies she has performed with include The Vienna State Opera Ballet, Volksoper-Vienna, Ballet Internationale, The New Jersey Ballet, The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, as guest with the Eglevsky Ballet, Ballet Austin, Cincinnati Ballet, Ballet Metropolitan and others. Her varied repertoire, over sixty ballets, includes title roles and leading roles in storytelling classics - "The Sleeping Beauty", "Giselle", "The Nutcracker", "Don Quixote", "Swan Lake", "La Bayadere", "Coppelia", "Esmeralda"..; one act and miniature ballets, such as "The Dying Swan" by Fokine; the leads in "Valse Fantasie", "Agon", "Stars and Stripes" and other Balanchine ballets; as well as classical and modern works by contemporary choreographers in Europe and the United States. Violeta is also dance teacher, multi-faceted artist and the only bulgarian ballerina in America. She is currently in the proccess of certifying her master's degree in dance.