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“I know Aleksei as a highly professional ballet dancer who performed various parts in productions of the Mariinsky Theatre. In 1991-2002 Aleksei Fomkin was on tour with the theatre company in the USA (Cleveland, Costa Mesa, Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, Washington, New York, Miami), Canada (Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal), Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Ireland, Great Britain, Iceland, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Finland, Turkey, the Netherlands, Spain, Austria, Estonia, China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and Taiwan. Aleksei Fomkin has always been characterized by devotion to and enthusiasm for work. In 1995 he was the ballet soloist of the Universal Ballet Company (South Korea) and went on tour with the company in Asian countries.”

“Aleksei Fomkin is a unique and versatile person. His interests have always gone far beyond dancing ballet. In 2000 Aleksei Fomkin graduated with honors from the pedagogical department of the Russian Ballet Academy named after A.Ya. Vaganova qualified as a ballet teacher and researcher in problems of preserving classical dance training methods. He wrote a series of critical articles analyzing various ballet performances.”

“Aleksei Fomkin developed an unprecedented innovative program for training ballet dancers with a higher education which he introduced in the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2010. The profound study of education contents in this program is unique and, to the best of my knowledge, it has provoked great interest in the leading ballet schools in Europe and worldwide.”

“Aleksei Fomkin is a gifted and unique teacher who can combine ballet practice with theory. In 2013 under his academic supervision, I succeeded in defending my master’s thesis on the topical issues of the ballet art development in South Korea. The thesis attracted the attention of the Korean ballet community and its results were implemented in the current teaching practice.”