{"id":1872,"date":"2020-02-10T21:29:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T21:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ksd-online.co.uk\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2020-02-24T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T21:40:00","slug":"student-success-elliot-adams-varna-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksd-online.co.uk\/ks-dance\/student-success-elliot-adams-varna-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Destinations &#8211; Elliot Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<h2><strong>Student Destinations 2020<\/strong><\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Dancers at KS Dance and Student Destinations &#8211; Elliot Adams <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s been an exciting couple of weeks pass for one of our current 3rd year male dancers; Elliot Adams. Elliott has secured and started a contract following a successful audition with \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.operavarna.com\/index.php\/en\/\">Varna State Opera Ballet Company<\/a>\u2019 Bulgaria and began learning the repertoire of Don Quixote with the company and new contemporary works already. All before the end of his final year. Congratulations Elliot!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The KS Dance Community are all absolutely thrilled for him and wish him the very best of luck in his career as a Professional Male Ballet Dancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In Elliots time with us at, Elliot had gone on to achieve reaching the Semi Finals of BBC Young Dancer 2018, <a href=\"http:\/\/ksd-online.co.uk\/ks-dance\/auditions-and-competitions\/\">Barbara Geoghegan Award <\/a>2019 Commendation and Cyril Beaumont Scholarship 2019 Commendation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>The Varna Ballet<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> was established simultaneously with the creation of the Varna Opera.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The first ballet master was Asen Manolov. Other ballet masters who have worked with the ballet dancers from 1960 to 1985, have considerably contributed to the development of the Varna Ballet and alongside their regular involvement in opera, operetta and musical spectaculars for children. Ekaterina Cheshmedzheva was the artistic manager of the ballet company for the period 1999-2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Since 2014 Svetlana Tonsheva is the artistic manager of the ballet company. The best known independent ballet productions<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>are \u201c <i>Raymonda <\/i>by A. Glazunov, <i>Romeo and Juliet<\/i> by S. Prokofiev, <i>The Nutcracker<\/i> by P. I. Tchaikovsky, <i>Spartacus<\/i> and <i>Cipollino<\/i> by A Khachaturian, \u00a0<i>Giselle<\/i> and <i>Le Corsaire <\/i>by A. Adam, <i>La fille mal gardee<\/i> by P. Hertel, \u00a0<i>Coppelia<\/i> by L. Delibes, \u00a0<i>Scheherazade<\/i> by Rimsky-Korsakov,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<i>A csodalatos mandarin<\/i> by L. Bartok, \u00a0<i>El amor brujo<\/i> by Manuel de Falla, <i>Les Sylphides<\/i> by F. Chopin, <i>Bolero<\/i> by M. Ravel, \u00a0<i>La boheme<\/i> bi G. Puccini, <i>The Wall<\/i> by R. Waters and <i>Doctor Zhivago<\/i> by K. Volkov.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Ballet dancers involved with the Varna Opera have had many famous Bulgarian ballet artists and choreographers work with them and also on tour in opera spectacles in Greece, Russia, India, Egypt, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Romania, Spain, Turkey, Finland and Abu Dhabi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We will certainly look forward to following Elliots career in this wonderful company and Student Destination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.\u201d &#8211; Albert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][image_with_animation image_url=&#8221;1873&#8243; alignment=&#8221;&#8221; animation=&#8221;Fade In&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text] Student Destinations 2020 [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text] Dancers at KS Dance and Student Destinations &#8211; Elliot Adams It\u2019s been an exciting couple of weeks pass for one of our current 3rd year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Student Destinations - Elliot Adams - KS Dance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Congratulations to Elliot Adams on securing a Professional Contract with Varna State Ballet Company. 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