Ella is from the City of Izhevsk in the middle of the Russian Federation where she began her dance education in the Izhevsk Ballet Academy at the age of five and graduated from in 1999 with honors.

Ella has won several Russian and international competitions, including ballet competitions in Paris in 1997 and Junior Festival in Germany in 1998, a second prize on the International competition "The World of The Youth" in Budapest, Hungary in 2001 (in the classic dance style with her own choreography).

She taught ballet and character classes for the Children Ballet Theatre “Rainbow” from to 2002 to 2004 in Russia.  Additionally she completed the first year of a Teacher Training Program at The Quinte Ballet School of Canada. (Cecchetti ballet method) where she received an honors award for classical Cecchetti ballet method in the elementary syllabus in May 2005.  She has also taught Pre-Ballet, Beginner ballet, Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced levels, character classes at American Academy of Ballet in Buffalo, NY.

Ella is 2004 graduate of the University of Art and Culture of the City of Perm with a major in Vaganova Technique.

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