Oksana Chernyuk 
Owner/ Founder
​ Artistic Director, Choreographer,
​Costumes designer.

Oksana Chernyuk is founder of Sunrise International Dance Company. She is a professional  folk dancer and artist with over 35 years of dancing experiences all over the world. Beginning her career at the age of 4 she became a feature dancer in the professional folk dance company "Black Sea" at the age of 14, touring all over Europe, Ukraine and Northern Africa.    
Her repertoire includes Folk, Ballet, Jazz, Flamenco, Tap, Contemporary, Gymnastics and Ballroom Dances.
She started her own dance Studio  in 2008 after over 30 years of professional dance performance. Since then Ms.Oksana has been Artistic Director of Sunrise International Dance Company.
Ms.Oksana Chernyuk is main choreographer, producer, costume designer.
Awards: Two Times Champion at the Ukrainian Tap Dance Competition.
Top Solo Performance, TDC winner of 1st Place at
​ Texas Open Dance sport Classic 2022
Winner of Gold medal at  the World Dance Championship in Hollywood.

Yuriy Kutsmida 
Folk dance Instructor/Coach
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Mr.Yuriy is a professional folk dancer with over 30 years of experience. For the past  15 years he has been working with Kids & Teenagers  of all ages and  levels of preparation at Sunrise International Dance Company.
Mr. Yuriy has been preparing numerous spectacular shows of  SIDC together with 
Ms.Oksana Chernyuk. 
Mr. Yuriy is a specialist in stunts and unique dance
​ acro tricks, especially Russian & Ukrainian kicks and juggling with the swords.

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                  Sergii Ostapenko
Executive Director & Head of SIDC's Tap department.
  
Three times world champion, two times European champion in Tap dance.
PhD in the history of literature.
​While working as an international teacher for more than ten years, working as a university lecturer for three years, gained excellent communication skills and led dozens of students to the successful results (including 3 world champions, 4 prize-winners of the world championship, 12 prize-winners of the European championship and 8 winners of Dance world cup in tap dance).
​Chief of tap dance department at Sunrise International Dance Company.
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Helen Pozhydaeva.
Coach and manager  of Sunrise International Dance Company.

Graduated from Odesa College of Art named after K.F Dankevych and Odesa school of performing arts. Ballet, modern and folk dancer. Winner of Ukrainian and International competitions in the nomination solo and group.
Ballet and Contemporary dance teacher with over 5 years experience.
Coach and manager  at Sunrise International Dance Company.

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