gopagris

rockville, MD

Biography

Marina Sheffer was the prize Winner of the Qualifying Regional (USSR) Tour of the "Miss Universe-92" Competition, Vice Miss of the "'Miss Marina 92" Contest (USSR), Prize Winner of the 2nd All-Union Festival of the Choreographic Collectives (USSR), Laureate of the 12th World Youth Festival in Moscow (USSR). She had a huge Work Experience as the Ice Choreographer & Ballet Coach at the Arctic Edge of Canton and the Detroit Skating Club. At the different points of her career she has been working with International Competitors in Dance, Pair & Freestyle including: 1998 Olympic Champion Tara Lipinski; 2006 Olympic Champion Shizuka Arakawa; 1998 Junior World Dance champions and 1998 Olympians Jessica Joseph and Charles Butler; 1999 Junior World and Grand Prix Dance Champions Jamie Silverstein and Justin Pekarek; 1999 National Pair Champions Danielle and Steve Hartsell and many other competitive skaters. In the beginning of 1990th Ms. Sheffer has been affiliated as a ballet coach with the Center for Creative Studies (Institute of Music and Dance) in Detroit, MI, as well as with the Russian TV Studio of Detroit (Public access of the Continental Cablevision) in West Bloomfield, MI as a Show Host (Russian Language Programs).Before immigrating to the US in 1992, Ms. Sheffer was a Program Manager/Choreographer at the Variety Theater "The Orchids" (Management of over 65 dancers) in Moscow, Russia, and had been working as a Model and Stage Director for the various companies & Photo Agencies in Moscow: VIP, RIF, Palmira (a Russian/Canadian Company) and Interlink (a Russian/American Company) and for the Concert Association "Rond" as a lead Dancer. Ms. Sheffer had also worked for the Moscow State TV as a show host assistant for the various Entertainment Shows in 1990-1992. Alexander Valtsev was born in Minsk, Capital of Belarus. He is from the musician's family, which back in 80’s, was very famous in USSR. His father was one of the top 10 lead guitar players in Russia; he was very popular back than. Alexander had all formal music training: school, college, conservatory and music academy - 15 years of music education. In 1990 he immigrated to Israel with parents, where he was performing with his original songs and had mastered sound in his own recording studio. In 1995 the family moved to the US. Since then he has been working in the construction industry in several countries. He has his own construction company, but in 2008 he finally decided to go back to his musical roots and started to compose and record his own songs again.