His mother was a master teacher at St. Petersburg University of the Humanities and Social Sciences, principal dancer at Mikhailovsky Theater, and an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation so he literally grew up in the ballet world. Trained exclusively at the world-renowned Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St. Petersburg Russia, Slava began an extensive career that has now culminated as a g
ifted teacher, coach, director and expert on the Vaganova Method of Classical Ballet. He has over 30 years experience as a dance professional. Career highlights include dancing professionally with Kirov Ballet of the Mariinsky Theater, Hartford Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. Fadeyev’s teaching and coaching highlights include Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet, Sawnee School of Ballet, Eglevsky Ballet, Dany Holdstein Two Worlds and American Theater Dance Workshop. Fadeyev is leveraging his vast international network to develop Fadeyev Ballet as Long Island’s premier dance organization. In 1987, Mr. Fadeyev was selected as one of only seven students, and the only professional dancer, from the Soviet Union to participate in the Peace Child exchange program here in the United States and in the Soviet Union. During Perestroika, Peace Child represented one of the initial programs that brought these two countries together through the arts and was one of the first times that children from Russia were permitted to travel to the U.S. This experience gave Slava his first inspiration of how transformative dance can be. In 2008, Mr. Fadeyev founded Russia Ballet Travel (RussiaBalletTravel.com) to provide exclusive travel and dance experiences in St. Petersburg & Moscow and now he is thrilled to to bring his rich professional experience to Long Island to train the world's future dancers through his company Fadeyev Ballet.
