Faculty & Staff

Born in Hong Kong, Fiona moved to Melbourne, Australia, where she trained at the Australian Ballet School with Irina and Sergei Konstantinov, Ai-Gul Gaisina, Margaret Wilson, Slava Zalomski, Xiuyun Tang, Jiahong Wang, Lisa Pavane, Leigh Rowles and Marilyn Rowe. She then completed her education with private training under the watchful eyes of ex-Bolshoi Ballet soloist dancers Yulia and Maxim Vasilyev.

Fiona then moved to Europe and danced professionally for the Romanian National Ballet and the New English Ballet Theater, dancing in numerous classical, neoclassical, and contemporary works.

In her career, she danced a variety of soloist roles in ballet such as Le Corsaire by Vasili Medvedev, Classical Symphony by Yuri Possokhov, DSCH by Alexei Ratmansky, La Sylphide by Johan Kobborg, Manon by Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Themes and Variations by George Balanchine, Petit Mort by Jiri Kylian, and In the Middle Somewhat Elevated by William Forsythe. She also danced corps de ballet roles in almost all of the ballet classics.

Fiona launched her teaching career at Southold Dance Theater in 2016 and was promoted to Assistant Artistic Director and Children’s Coordinator in 2020. In her time at Southold Dance Theater, Fiona has carefully curated the curriculum to cover all levels, from Creative Dance through to the Pre-Professional Company. Her curriculum is based on the Russian Vaganova system, the syllabus she was taught in her training.

Fiona has been a guest teacher at the Interlochen Center for the Arts (Michigan), Indiana Ballet Theater (Indiana), River Raisin Ballet (Michigan), and The Arts of the Dance Center (New Jersey). She is also a regular master teacher at the Caledonia Dance & Music Center (Michigan). In 2018, Fiona was a judge and master teacher at the Dance Masters of Michigan and in 2024, Fiona was a judge for the Cecchetti International Ballet Competition in Detroit, Michigan.

Today, Fiona wishes to nurture her students and teach them the beauty of ballet while providing the same elite classical training she received when she was a student.