JIRI SEBASTIAN VOBORSKY Ballet Magnificat! Omega Artistic Director Ballet Magnificat! Resident Choreographer Trainee Program Co-Director Trainee Program Faculty - Ballet Technique, Allegro, Conditioning A native of the Czech Republic, Jiri graduated with honors from the Liberec State Ballet School, where he studied under Professors Gabajova and Rucky. During his academy years, Jiri danced with the ballet company of the F. X. Salda State Theatre in the Czech Republic and Eternia Dance Theatre in Sweden and received a contract from the Opera Ballet of the Moravian National Theatre in Brno in the Czech Republic for the 1993 – 1994 season. Jiri came to the United States in July of 1993 and began touring with Ballet Magnificat! in January 1994. Besides dancing, Jiri was the lighting designer and served as one of the technical directors for Ballet Magnificat! In January 2001, he choreographed his first full-length ballet, Deliver Us. In the fall of the same year he created two pieces for Belhaven College Dance Department, and in 2003 choreographed a modern ballet work for Ad Deum Dance Company, based in Houston, TX. Jiri has been a guest instructor at ArtReach Dance Intensive and has conducted ballet technique master classes throughout the United States, Singapore, Costa Rica, as well as Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia. Jiri married company dancer Cassandra in April 2000. During Ballet Magnificat's 2003 Singapore Tour, together they modeled for German Braun Buffel Company in its worldwide advertisement promotion. In 2003, he choreographed his second full-length ballet, Journey of the Prodigal Son, in 2005 his third major work, RUTH, was introduced by the Alpha Company, and in August of 2006 the Omega Company began touring his most recent work, Hiding Place. Jiri is honored to serve the Lord with his wife as Trainee Program Directors in addition to holding the positions of Artistic Director of Ballet Magnificat! Omega and Resident Choreographer for Ballet Magnificat!