Svetlana Todinova graduated from the Ufimsky Choreography School. She later had the honor of working in the Krasnodarsky troupe of the Bashkiria Theatre under the famed Jurii Grigirovich. From that point in time, she began dancing with numerous established companies, including Russian Academy of Ballet Art (GITIS).

In 2006, Svetlana was appointed as a soloist for Crown of Russia Ballet. With this group, she has toured internationally in countries such as Holland, China, Spain, Italy, England and the USA. Her repertory includes Don Quixote, Sleeping Beauty, Paganini, La Bayadere, Carmen, Swan Lake and the Nutcracker.

Today, she is an invaluable resource to Moscow Ballet. Svetlana’s professionalism and drive to succeed has led her to many leadership roles within this company, including stepping to manage the 2009 tour at the half-way point. Svetlana visited nearly 20 American cities between the months of September and November 2010, where she auditioned and trained up to 1000 children for walk-on roles in Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker. Directly following this travel schedule, Svetlana joined her colleagues for the 2010 tour!

Ivonne was born in Mexico City, where she attended the National School of Classical Dance, dependent of the National Arts Institute of Arts 1977-1986, as an intern receiving general education courses and Classical Dance instruction. 

At the end of her deep and long preparation combined with a strong discipline as a ballerina, she enjoyed performing with the National Dance Company in Mexico City.  Ivonne has had the opportunity to work with great dancers and choreographers including The Royal Ballet of London, Houston Dance Center, The Kirov Ballet and Ballet of Cuba.

Ivonne is very excited to have the opportunity to teach all that she has learned.  It is very fascinating to her to see the passion in every student to learn ballet. 


She believes that it is important to work really hard with dedication and discipline to get great technique and grace so dancers can enjoy what they are doing and be able to project to the audience how beautiful and unique the art of dancing truly is.

NATALIA MORALES is a graduate from Cal State Fullerton with a B.A in dance and a Masters in Education with an emphasis in dance from CSUN.

Natalia is well versed in Teaching, Choreographing and performing. She has created and run early education programs and taught at many professional studios such as The Athletic Garage in Pasadena, Millennium in North Hollywood.

Recently, Natalia was the first instructor in California to write the syllabus and teach a transferrable course in Hip-Hop at the College level. Natalia has performed with the New York Ballet and in various shows such as MTV 2003 Movie Awards, The Super Bowl, and the Lakers Fiesta Party.

She has choreographed for many rising rap artists here in the U.S. and pop artists from Europe. Natalia teaches Jazz, Hip-Hop, Ballet, and Dance Team Prep. Along with teaching here at IVY Dance Studio, Natalia enjoys teaching at MSJC Menifee Campus.

Lori started her dance training at age six in Riverside. Her first professional job was in Inland Empire Civic Light Opera’s “The King and I” at age ten. She went on to perform several more times with IECLO as well as with Riverside Civic Ballet and Ballet Pacifica. 

Lori later danced professionally with Pennsylvania Ballet, Ballet West, and received a full scholarship with American Ballet Theater.  She has also studied with Harkness Ballet and The Joffrey Ballet.  She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from University of California, Irvine.

For the past 15 years, Lori has taught Ballet full time in Orange County and been Ballet Mistress for The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago’s production of ‘The Nutcracker,” selecting and setting choreography on the children chosen by her in the various cities across the United States where they perform.  Lori also has choreographed and performed in the television and film industry.  She teaches our Master Classes including Pointe, Pas de deux and Variations

Mona Rose Lujano started her dance career under the tutelage of Lila Zali at Ballet Pacifica.

She danced her way through high school, college, and beyond, appearing several ballet productions, including The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. She is known for her ballet and theater costume designs, and her creations have appeared on stages worldwide, and she is frequently requested to provide commentary on International news programs.

Mona Rose currently teaches Creative Dance, Petite Ballet and Danz Fuzion and is our on staff costumer.

Patina (Tina) Rodgers has practiced yoga since 1996 and began her practice in San Diego. In 1998 she moved to Los Angeles where she was fortunate to have discovered Yoga Works in Santa Monica. It was at Yoga Works where her practice began to formally develop and where her love of yoga flourished. She completed her formal 200 hour training in 2000 with Maty Ezraty (Yoga Works founder) and Lisa Walford.

She is very grateful to Maty and Lisa for this training that combines the best knowledge of Ashtanga and Iyengar styles and which they have imparted to many of the best-known teachers today.

She has continued her education by taking workshops from some of the most respected yoga teachers such as Richard Freeman, Gabriela Giubilaro, Aadil Palkivala, Gary Kraftsow, Judith Lasater, Kofi Busia and Elise Miller. She has had the good fortune to practice regularly with Vinnie Marino, Shiva Rea, Seane Corn and Erich Schiffmann in LA and to have completed an eight-month internship with Jasmine Lieb. After her internship, Patina taught part-time in studios, taught private clients and also volunteered her teaching for two years at Metropolitan Continuation High School in downtown Los Angeles.

Patina’s teaching focuses on the classic Yoga Works vinyasa-flow style class where the breath is used to link movements and sun salutations are used to help heat the body to prepare one for the postures.

Having recently recovered from some injuries, Patina was able to utilize her yoga knowledge to overcome back pain and move toward a place of recovery. Patina holds a B.A. in Economics from U.C. Irvine and a Master of Fine Arts from U.C. Riverside.