The Faculty of Scarsdale Ballet Studio


ANASTASIA EDERY, formerly of the Bolshoi Ballet and The Russian State Ballet, holds a Red Teaching Diploma with honors from the Moscow Choreography Institute and is a graduate of the Vaganova Ballet Academy. Now in her sixth year at SBS, she teaches and coaches all levels of ballet and has staged works from the classical repertory for the Studio’s Concertdance performances.

MARIA POSEY, Master Teacher of Creative Ballet, was a member of the corps de ballet at Radio City Music Hall, the Kansas City Opera, and the Philadelphia Opera. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English and Education and a Master's Degree in Counseling and Development. This is her 17th year at the Studio.

KAREN BURGHART performed with the Alvin
Ailey Company, was accepted as a BFA Candidate at the
Conservatory of Dance, SUNY Purchase and was a
scholarship student at the Alvin Ailey American Dance
Theater School. She is an experienced teacher of Ballet
and Creative Ballet.

KIMBERLY GIANNELLI has danced with the Manhattan Dance Project, Gleich Dances, and Ballet Deviare. She received her training at the Scarsdale Ballet Studio and with other noted teachers such as Marilyn Miles, Ted Kivitt, and David Howard. She has extensive teaching experience in the Westchester area and holds a degree in Psychology from Manhattanville College.




VIRGINIA HONNEUS, who has been on the Studio’s faculty since 1998, studied dance and theater at Stephens College and the Yale School of Drama where her teacher was Pearl Lang. She continued her studies with numerous well-known teachers in Manhattan including Gabriella Darvash and David Howard and has performed in ensembles throughout Westchester.






SIMEON KAZANTSEV, was a member of the Boston Ballet and the Moscow Stanislavsky Ballet in Russia. He graduated from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy with a degree in Ballet and Pedagogy from Moscow Choreographic Institute and was the teaching assistant to Professor Alexander Bondarenko.





PEDRO RUIZ, a native of Cuba, was a Principal Dancer
with Ballet Hispanico in New York and is now an acclaimed
choreographer whose works have been commissioned by the
Joffrey Ballet, the Ailey School and others. He is the recipient
of the New York dance world’s highest honor, the Bessie Award.
Mr. Ruiz is a much sought-after Master Teacher of Ballet and
Contemporary Dance.

ELLEN SHEA was trained at the School of American Ballet. She performed with the Chatauqua Festival Ballet and with the Ballet Theater of Boston while studying architecture on scholarship at MIT where she earned a BSAD and an M. Arch. She has been teaching at the Scarsdale Ballet Studio for the last five years.

VIJA STAMEY danced in the contemporary ballet company, Dance Spectrum in San Francisco under the direction of Carlos Carvajal and has performed in a wide range of dance styles in several other ensembles.