Enjoying the dance: Pacific Grove's Madame Kira Ivanovsky pirouettes toward 100

After nearly 40 years of professional dance throughout Europe, Madame Kira Ivanovsky founded the Ivanovsky School of Ballet in Pacific Grove in the early 1960s.

[Anna]

As a student, I can say it's really a marvel to have worked with Ballet Fantasque over the years. We love our teachers and respect them very much. They provide a positive and productive environment for us. We learn so much, and we enjoy it all.
Thank you for this article.

[Dorman Nelson]

In the late 70s I received a ballet scholarship from her, as I was taking ballet at MPC. (It started out as rehab for a football knee injury. I will never forget the kindness and, the HARD work. It was more than worth it. Thank you Kira.....

[Belle Stahrsi]

I love them all. My last teacher Ana Halpin explains how she got all the out-of-work russian teachers together and gave them the impetus to try to teach ballet even after she had moved on to post modern slurryism. This means oh so much to us all.