Melbourne Institute of Dance

Elena is originally from Russia where she started to do character dancing and performed with various groups since 1992. In 2006 when she joined folk dancing theater “Lege-Artis” in Moscow and after 5 years of performances with the theater in Russia and Europe she moved to Australia, where she joined various Character dancing and Irish dancing groups. Being in love with character dancing, Elena has been teaching this discipline in Australian Academy of Dance, Independent Dance Studios, Lehenda Ukrainian Dance Company, “Morava” Serbian Dance Ensemble etc since 2013.