Veronique Kim Tran

Teaches at BalletNova Center for Dance

Veronique Kim Tran – From a very young age, Veronique has always been enamored with dance and movement. She began ballet training with The National Ballet of Canada and then studied Asian traditional dances with The Beijing Song and Dance Company in Beijing, China and at STSI Indonesian Dance Academy in Bali. She perused her passion and received her B.A. degree in Dance from The American University in Washington D.C. and is honoured to have studied with prominent dancers including Mark Morris, Mel Wong, Milton Myers of Alvin Ailey, Anne Parsons of Joffrey Ballet, Mimi Legat, and members of the Bolshoi Ballet in then Yugoslavia. She has danced professionally in numerous companies throughout the world including with Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Jan Taylor, Alexandria Ballet, Grant McDaniel in Italy David Rousseve/Reality in NYC, and Placido Domingo at The Washington Opera. Veronique is currently the Director and Founder of the non-profit, Circle of World Arts in which she also choreographs and performs for its resident dance company, Arabesque Dance Theatre, and teaches at its resident dance school, the Oriental Dance Academy.  She is also president of UNESCO’s International Council of Dance, Washington DC Section. She currently teaches, and choreographs at the Mosaique Center for Cultural Arts, The Yellow House, an arts initiative, hOMe Studios, and BalletNova.