dancers the audiences had ever seen in a live performance. Partners Some of the professional ballerinas Jelko Yuresha partnered with: Sir Anton Dolin Mentorship One of the most significant influences on the careers of both Jelko Yuresha and Belinda Wright was the English dancer and choreographer Sir Anton Dolin (1904-1983). Wright was just five years old when she met Dolin at a school performance. Yuresha and Dolin were introduced in 1956 when Dolin travelled to Croatia to stage Giselle with the Split Ballet. Dolin established London Festival Ballet (today English National Ballet) in 1950 with ballerina Alicia Markova and impresario Julian Braunsweg. Yuresha joined the company in 1959 and became a principal dancer. Upon Dolin’s death, the couple inherited the rights to his choreography of Giselle, Pas de Quatre, and his acclaimed original ballet, Variations for Four. Yuresha and Wright danced—and later staged—productions of these ballets with dance companies around the world, designing original costumes and sets for those performances. Yuresha restaged Variations for Four in 1999 for American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. He has since staged it at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the Tetsuya Kumakawa Ballet in Japan, and at schools in Europe and the United States. In October 2016 he choreographed the piece in Moscow at the Grand Kremlin Palace gala for the “Stars of Ballet in the 21st Century.” Teaching and choreography Yuresha began teaching in 1977 as a guest teacher at master classes in London. He has taught ballet at Dance Works, Dance Centre London, at the London Studio Centre, and has been a guest teacher at ballet schools in Kuala Lumpur, Milan, and Zurich. Yuresha has also been a judge in scholarship competitions at the Legat School and the Royal Academy of Dance. He continued part-time choreography work in 1984 with Cinderella to Prokofiev’s music for the Icelandic National Ballet. His choreography career has taken him to Austria, China, and New Zealand where he has staged Pas de Sylph, La Peri, and Giselle. In 1994 Yuresha began work with National Ballet of Panama and makes frequent trips to Panama City. In 2013 he staged La Peri and worked on a production of Vasily Medvedev’s Coppelia, as well as other works. He served as a judge and advisor at the Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition (VKIBC). Competitions that Yuresha participated were held in Brussels, New York, and New