Inessa came to Israel  from Russia as a new immigrant eight years before accepting me as her student,
She was one of those little girls who had been accepted to the Bolshoi during the thirties.

She taught  classical  ballet at a very tinny  studio in a basement in a central street in Tel Aviv.
She taught her advanced class at the nearby Mia Arbatova's Studio.

When I came to her she said that she need to recreate my dancing.
In order to improve  the communication between us,  she told me to read Stanislavski.

I insisted on taking beginners class with little Girls, I wanted to be treated as a dancer and not as a male dancer whose job is just to carry the Ballerina, and Inessa had many Ballerinas.
Inessa had let me doing it my way,
Working with Inessa was like working with a leading teacher in a central place like NYC.

From Inessa I have got a serious attitude towards art "Dancing is not gymnastic" when you dance you dance from finger to toe
It is very important  how you hold your fingers your head every thing should be in coordination.

Catherine Tully wrote me: "Inessa came to Chicago City Ballet School and was my teacher there for
several years. Then, she opened her own school in Skokie, IL when the
CCB folded. Inessa taught alongside Marjorie and Maria Tallchief, and
she was an amazing teacher!"