Barbara Fortier

Ballet/Pointe: Ms. Barbara Fortier is on her 19th year of teaching classes in ballet technique, pointe work, and variations for age appropriate 7 and up.

Her early training was Royal Academy of Dance (Grades I-IV), receiving Honours in the children‘s examinations each year. Later she studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Ballet and at the New York Conservatory of Ballet.

In 1992, Ms. Fortier received an R.A.D. teaching certificate for Grades Pre-Ballet thru VI. In 1994, she began studying the Russian school with Stanislav Issaev of Moscow Classical Ballet.

Currently, Ms. Fortier is performing with Kingsport Ballet. She is on her 10th year of private study of the Vaganova technique with Natalia Shevchenko, former prima ballerina of Moldova Theatre. Under Ms. Shevchenko's tutelage, she has been coached on many classical variations:

Sleeping Beauty: Aurora’s Birthday, Vision, Wedding Fairies I-V, Lilac Fairy, Bluebird
Don Quixote: Kitri’s Wedding
Nutcracker: Sugar Plum Fairy
Giselle: Giselle’s Act I
Swan Lake: 4-Swans
La Bayadere: 4-Girls
The Dying Swan: The Dying Swan
and from Spartacus, Paquita, Raymonda, Flames of Paris, Satanella