Hungarian State Opera Ballet. He was Director of the Revived Russian Imperial Theatre of Opera and Ballet, co-Artistic Director of Russiches Kammertheater Berlin; and was awarded Professor of Choreography from the Ukrainian State Academy of Ballet in 1999, and in 2008, he received a YAGP Outstanding Choreographers Award. Shannon was trained by legends in the ballet world on scholarships from California to the School of American Ballet in New York and National Ballet School of Canada. The ...