We are so excited to present our inaugural Nutcracker production this year at the Hayes Christensen Theatre in the Marriott Center for Dance on the University of Utah campus on December 10 at 7:30. Come see our performance!
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International
Ballet
Conservatory
Victoria Stocki-Kim
Artistic Director
victoriastocki@internationalballetconservatory.com (801) 704-7555
Year 2024-2025
Sept 3-May 31, 2025
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IBC is a high caliber unrivaled pre-professional ballet training niche in the greater Salt Lake City, Utah region. It provides the highest international standard of classical ballet education with a curriculum founded in the Vaganova methodology to dancers ages 2 and up in small classroom settings with classes designed to develop the individual dancer. IBC is ideal for those who love ballet or aspire towards professional careers in ballet.
We are honored to pass down to the next generation of dancers the inherited legacy our masters bestowed us throughout our combined 59 years of international experience across 14 countries on the major stages of the world while serving as professional dancers, ballet masters, répétiteurs, directors, and professors.
Victoria is an ABT® National Training Curriculum Certified Teacher in the full program Pre-Primary through Level 7 and Partnering, completed all three certification programs simultaneously, earned a 99% examination score, and is an American Ballet Theatre Project Plié Partner Teacher.
Originally from Michigan, as a teenager Victoria was honored to perform the Sugar Plum Fairy in the Nutcracker in Detroit alongside the ballerinas of Cynthia Harvey, Evelyn Cisneros, and Kyra Nichols. Inspiring her on to a professional career in ballet she graduated on full scholarship with honors from the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington D.C. training under Alla Sizova, Ludmila Sakharova, and Nikolai Morozov, and was honored to perform with the Kirov Ballet the lead role of Masha in the Nutcracker on their North American tour. She earned her diploma and graduated with honors on full scholarship from the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan and received additional training from the School of American Ballet in New York, Pennsylvania Ballet (now The Rock School), Chicago City Ballet (now Ballet Chicago), and Briansky Ballet in New York.
Her professional career includes dancing as a Soloist for a span of 14 years with Universal Ballet Company of Seoul, Korea, under the direction of Oleg Vinogradov, Bruce Steivel, Roy Tobias, and Julia Moon, across 14 countries on the major stages of the world throughout America, Austria, Canada, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Spain, and Switzerland. In the states, she danced with Tulsa Ballet Theatre under the direction of Marcello Angelini and Roman Jasinski, and Dayton Ballet Theatre under the direction of Dermot Burke. She enjoyed performing leading roles in a repertoire of over 70 ballets including 19 full lengths, 27 ballets, 15 contemporary ballets, and 10 Balanchine ballets.
Upon retirement from the stage, she served as the Academy Director of Nevada Ballet Theatre where she led 600 students and a faculty of 16, established and directed the Nevada Ballet Theatre Youth Company of 90 dancers who participated in 42 community performances, worked with Nevada Ballet Theatre trainees, created a Vaganova pre-professional ballet program levels 1 to 8, a recreational ballet training program levels 1-8, and formed comprehensive Dance, Children, Adult, and Boy programs with great success. She served as Ballet Faculty at the Kirov Academy of Ballet (formerly Universal Ballet Academy) in Korea and Washington D.C., and served as Ballet Director of the Art Ballet Center in Korea, Metropolitan Ballet Academy and Theatre in Michigan, and the Rock Center for Dance in Nevada.
In Utah, she served as Ballet Faculty and Répétiteur at former Mariinsky Theatre of Russia Artistic Director Oleg Vinogradov’s 6th and 7th 'Vivat Ballet!' International Ballet Festivals, served as Répétiteur, Assistant Professor Lecturer, and Associate Director of Utah Ballet in the Department of Ballet at the University of Utah, served as Ballet Director at Park City Performing Arts Academy (now Ballet West Academy), and ballet faculty at Salt Lake City Ballet, Barlow Arts Conservatory, Creative Arts Academy, and Utah Dance Festival.
Victoria is an ABT® National Training Curriculum Certified Teacher of the full program Pre-Primary through Level 7 and Partnering and is an American Ballet Theatre Project Plié Partner Teacher. She is also a Certified Yoga Instructor who has completed comprehensive training in Yoga asana, pranayama, philosophy and the art of teaching at the White Lotus Yoga Foundation in Santa Barbara, California, and has completed the Isha Foundation Inner Engineering, Angamardana, and Surya Kriya programs.
Professor Kim is originally from South Korea and is an Associate Professor with tenure in the School of Dance at the University of Utah. He earned his MFA from the University of Utah, his BFA from the Sejong University, and is an ABT® National Training Curriculum Certified Teacher in Pre-Primary through Level 3.
He received his fundamental training on full scholarship from the Kirov Academy of Ballet training under Alla Sizova, Roudolf Kharatian, and Vladimir Djouloukhadze, and in Korea on full scholarship from the Dance Arts Institute, Chang-Mu Dance Conservatory, and Kwang-Ju Arts High School.
In his professional career he was awarded 9 grand prix and gold medals in international competitions in Ballet, Contemporary, Modern, and Korean Traditional Dance categories. He danced as a Principal and Soloist with Universal Ballet Company across 13 countries on the major stages of the world under the direction of Oleg Vinogradov, Bruce Steivel, and Julia Moon, Korean National Ballet under the direction of Yuri Grigorovich, Korean Ballet Theatre under the direction of Cha-Young Suh, and Dayton Ballet Theatre under the direction of Dermot Burke.
He is the founder and Artistic Director of the International Ballet Summer Intensive on the University of Utah Asia Campus in Incheon, Korea that hosts ballet students from America and Korea on the English immersion Incheon Global Campus that houses the worlds’ top universities.
His original choreographic works have been performed internationally in Spain, Korea, and Costa Rica and nationally in Michigan, Nevada, Texas, and Utah. His works include a classical full-length Cinderella production, Sentience, Metamorphosis, Reciprocity, Remembrance, Enraptured, Binari, Etudes, The Human Experience, and Elegy that have been performed by Seoul Ballet Theatre, Kwangju City Ballet, Korean Ballet Theatre, Ballet Frontier of Texas, Utah Ballet, Utah Lyric Opera Ensemble, Utah Metropolitan Ballet Company, Utah Regional Ballet, have been presented at Youth America Grand Prix competitions, LINK Dance Festival, and awarded as a finalist in the Utah Regional Ballet Choreography Design Competition and the Utah Metropolitan Ballet Director’s Choice Choreography Design competition.
He has served as master teacher with the Korea International Ballet Competition, World Ballet Grand Prix Singapore and New York, Seoul Ballet Theatre, Kwangju City Ballet, Korean Ballet Theatre, Kirov Academy of Ballet, Academy of Nevada Ballet Theatre, Mercyhurst University, Oakland University, Sejong University, Brigham Young University, Centro de Danza Company, Folklore Festival day of Europe, Great Lakes Dance Festival, Ballet Center of Fort Worth, LINK Choreography Festival, Salt Contemporary Dance, Salt Lake City Ballet, Jacqueline’s School of Ballet, Metropolitan Ballet Academy and Theatre, and Art Ballet Center of Seoul.
He is an ABT® Project Plie Partner Teacher, serves as a partner for Kirov Academy of Ballet, has presented at and serves on the Membership and Outreach Committee of CORPS de Ballet International, has published in the Dance Research Journal of Korea, is a Steering Committee member for the Korea International Ballet Competition, and is a member of the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science.
IBC enjoys stunning mountain and lake views nestled along the Wasatch Mountains east bench conveniently located 16 minutes north of Salt Lake City and 6 minutes off I-15 exit 319 in Centerville/Farmington, Utah.
IBC's welcoming reception area features an open air studio designed for convenient pre-class warm-ups among the lake and mountain views. IBC studios feature elegant chandeliers, columns, sconces, romanesque ceiling tiles, sprung Harlequin floors, double barres, and 8 ft. mirrors.
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