Evgenia Puchynskaya (Jenny)
Organizer, head and main choreographer of the studio since 2004.
Graduated from the Minsk State Colledge of Arts (specalization “Mass
ceremonies and festivals direction”) and Belarussian State University
of Culture and Arts (specialization “Dramatic Art”).
Does dancing for many years, specializes in irish, celtic and Renaissance dancing. In staged dances she emphasises the drama and alluring appearance of the plot. Evgenia is the most experienced Irish dancing teachers of Belarus and one of the best specialists of ths area, that is prooved by the numerous triumphs of the students of the studio in different competitions. She participated in numerous master-classes, festivals and competitions in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany. Evgenia is Eastern European Champion 2011, Germany Champion 2012. She succesfully passed the exams of the World Irish Dancing Association (WIDA) and nowadays is the only TCRG (certificated solo dancing teacher) and TMRF (certificated team dancing teacher) in the Republic. She is the director of the first Belarussian Irish dancing Championship “Minsk Open Feis”, solo and combined concerts of the studio based in Belarussian State Philarmony, various medieval dancing festivals. Constantly holds master-classes for dancing schools of Belarus, Russia, Estonia and others.
Palina Maskaliova (Chipa)
A member of the studio since 2007. She is a prize-winner of numerous
championships, an Intermediate-open category dancer. Palina is a
brilliant photographer - the best photoes of the studio members are
done by her. The teaching experience showed, that Palina perfectly
gets on with children and adults of any ages alike, puts lots of
effort into teaching and can clearly explain the material to even the
most slow-witted students.
Along with other dancers of the studio constantly participates in master-classes of famous teachers and masters the dancing skills.