We're warming up
We're taking a short pause while Ballet With Isabella steps into something new. Same world-class training. A bigger mission behind it. This next chapter is about more than ballet. It's about how you train, and how you show up – in and out of the studio.
We'll be back soon. In the meantime... keep it moving
- 32 calf rises each leg! – keep it slow and controlled
- 30 glute bridges – lengthen through the floor
- 1 minute plank - embrace the shakes!
- 4 x 30 second balances in retiré each side – if you fall, we start from the top!
- Practice your pirouettes from 5th and 4th each side. Try each turn until you feel 1 percent progress
- An arabesque each side – master it, and make it clean
- 1 minute butterfly stretch – breathe, don’t force, keep your back long and actively push the knees out
Our Team
Meet the people behind your progress
High-level experience. Hands-on guidance. Our teachers bring together diverse skills with one goal: helping you move better, think clearer and train smarter.
Expertise
Built on experience. Driven by belief.
Our teachers have danced lead roles on world stages and they know what it takes to get you there. But what sets them apart is their ability to meet you where you are, and coach you forward. Precision, patience and powerful insight. All in your corner.
Culture
Turned out and tuned in
We don’t do ego. We do encouragement. This is a team that trains seriously and supports generously, because we know that real progress starts with how you feel in the room. When lift each other, we all leap higher.
At fifteen, Isabella moved to St. Petersburg to train at the Vaganova Academy. Today, shaped by top level performance, she teaches with the belief that ambition thrives on discipline, real support and above all belief.
Our Teaching Team
India Rose
India trained at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington DC and later with Gelsey Kirkland in New York, where she became a founding member of Gelsey Kirkland Ballet performing soloist and principal roles in productions like Sleeping Beauty and Don Quixote. She later moved to Paris to study Kniaseff barre au sol and now performs with Karl Paquette in his productions of Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, alongside teaching floor barre classes internationally.
Eleanora Adeeva
Eleonora graduated from the Rudolf Nureyev Choreographic School, performing works by Yuri Grigorovich during her training. She became a soloist with the St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre under K. Tachkin, dancing leading roles including Odette Odile, Nikiya, Paquita, the Sleeping Beauty Fairy and the Snow Queen. A laureate of international competitions, she later qualified as a teacher of classical dance and now leads masterclasses worldwide, with students achieving top international awards.
Valeria Chaykina
Valeria began training at the Vaganova Ballet Academy at age seven, performing at the Mariinsky Theatre and dancing Marie in The Nutcracker. After graduating, she danced with leading Russian companies before moving to the U.S. on full scholarship to Miami City Ballet School. She spent ten seasons with The Joffrey Ballet and is now a lead dancer with Atlanta Ballet. Valeria brings her strong Vaganova foundation and stage experience into every class.
Marta Teghini
Marta trained in Catania, Sicily under Davide Montagna before completing a degree in contemporary dance and performative arts, studying anatomy, yoga and Pilates. She is currently performing with a ballet company in Sicily. At Ballet with Isabella, she teaches Barre, Mat Madness and Stretch, focusing on strength, conditioning and flexibility. Her approach centres on muscle awareness, alignment and injury prevention, creating a supportive space where dancers build strength safely and intelligently.
Claire Voss
Claire trained at the Paris Conservatoire, the Rosella Hightower School and Ballet Central London. She performed internationally with Dortmund Ballet, Zurich Ballet, Finnish National Ballet and West Australian Ballet, dancing leading classical roles and working with renowned choreographers. Now a Lecturer at WAAPA in Perth, she specialises in ballet conditioning informed by her Pilates Movement Therapy qualification. Her work focuses on biomechanics, injury prevention and preparing dancers safely for professional demands.
Elaine Puren
Elaine trained at Arts Educational School, Tring and Central School of Ballet before dancing with Northern Ballet Theatre and later as a soloist with NAPAC Dance Company in South Africa. She began training in the Gyrotonic method in 1999 and studied extensively with its creator, Juliu Horvath. Elaine has run studios in London and Buckinghamshire for over twenty five years and now teaches Gyrokinesis to support strength, mobility and coordination.
Colleen Grace
Colleen trained at the Australian Conservatoire of Ballet and has performed internationally in Paris, Beijing, London and Berlin. Alongside her dance career, she incorporated yoga and Pilates into her cross training and later qualified to teach both. Her Pilates classes focus on control, strength and alignment, helping dancers build stability and body awareness that translates directly into their ballet training.
Elena Kunikova
Elena is a graduate of the Vaganova Ballet Academy and performed with the Mikhailovsky Theatre Ballet in St. Petersburg. Since moving to the United States, she has staged classical ballets and her own choreography for professional companies worldwide while teaching at leading schools. Her students now dance with major companies internationally. Elena is known for her structured method and personalised approach to developing both technical precision and artistry.
Roseanna Leney
Roseanna trained at The Royal Ballet School before joining Polish National Ballet and later Scottish Ballet, where she was promoted to Principal in 2022. She qualified as a personal trainer in 2021 and a yoga instructor in 2023, driven by her passion for health and wellbeing. Her yoga classes support mobility, strength and recovery, offering dancers a balanced and compassionate complement to their ballet training.
