Sarena Fishman Jimenez is an actor (Topo Swope Talent), writer, and director from Boston, Massachusetts, currently based in St. Petersburg, Russia. She is fluent in Spanish and Russian.

She is the 2021 recipient of the “Rossotrudnichestvo” (Russian Agency of International Humanitarian Cooperation) award to study on full-scholarship for her master’s degree at the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia.

FILM

She is the co-founder of production company Cinagogue LLC, and co-founder and producer of Anthroposophy Today.

Her latest film — “Gilda, Are You Decent?” — stars Kathryn Morgan, former soloist with the New York City Ballet and Miami City Ballet, and premiered on 7/13/2021.

BALLET

She has a B.A. in the Art of the Ballet Master (Ballet Repetiteur/Pedagogy focus) from the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory, in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she studied Vaganova ballet technique and performed classical, neo-classical, Soviet, and contemporary repertoire for five years, coached by principal dancers of the Mariinsky Ballet, Igor Kolb, Sofia Gumerova-Lazutkina, and Daria Pavlenko.

Sarena has worked as assistant to the choreographer for Seattle-based choreographer Eva Stone during the creation of her piece “F O I L” for the Pacific Northwest Ballet, which premiered on November 8th, 2019. She has also worked as a repetiteur for Pacific Northwest Ballet soloist Margaret Mullin, who created the new work “SACCADE” for PNB’s Professional Division students for the 2019 School Performance.

Sarena has taught Character Dance Technique and Repertoire at the Olympic Ballet School and worked as a private coach with dancers in the United States and Russia, rehearsing and staging classical, neoclassical, and Soviet ballet repertoire for both public performances and competitions.

You can find her latest writing on Russia and ballet, as well as updates about current projects, on her Substack, Sarena’s Notebook.