Founding Director Vladimir Angelov graduated in 1986 from the National Ballet School in Sofia, in his native Bulgaria. Parallel with his dancing career, he was also a Philosophy major at the University of Sofia. After immigrating to the United States, he completed his master's in dance and choreography in 1996 at the American University in Washington, D.C.Mr. Angelov's early choreographies were shown at the New Choreographers on Pointe in New York City, Vienna TanzFest in Austria, Paris International Dance Festival, Japan Fall Festival in Kyoto, All Latin American Dance Festival in Puerto Ricco, among many others.

As a choreographer, Mr. Angelov has created original contemporary ballets for companies such as Atlanta Ballet, Arizona Ballet, Indianapolis Ballet, Richmond Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Washington Ballet, as well as Alberta Ballet in Canada, Ballet Manila in the Philippines, Tokyo City Ballet, and Nagoya Ballet Theater in Japan, the National Ballet of Mexico, and the legendary Mariinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia. Mr. Angelov has created dances for over a dozen opera productions directed by Placido Domingo with the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center and has also choreographed for diverse musical, theater, film, and television productions. For an online portfolio, please visit www.dancingangel.net.

As an author, Mr. Angelov has written more than 30 articles, features, reports, performance reviews, and philosophical essays about dance and has published in several European dance magazines including Ballet Journal (Munich, Germany), Ballet/Tanz (Berlin, Germany), and TanzAffiche (Vienna, Austria). His current writings and lectures on choreographic practices feature an innovative approach to teaching choreography by integrating it with other disciplines such as history, anthropology, psychology, cognitive neurosciences, creative thinking, and global interaction.

As an educator, Mr. Angelov's teaching credits as a visiting professor, guest lecturer, and choreographer nationally include the Kennedy Center, American University, George Washington University, Dance Place, and CityDance Conservatory in Washington, DC. Internationally, he has taught at numerous universities and dance companies in Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, France, Finland, Germany, Mexico, Italy, Russia, and Japan.

Currently, Mr. Angelov serves as the Founding, Artistic, and Executive Director of the International Consortium for Advancement in Choreography. Inc., also known as the International Choreography Organization and Networking Services –  Dance ICONS, Inc.  –  a global network for choreographers. 

Mr. Angelov is considered by many of his colleagues a key international expert in choreography, especially in philosophy and theory of choreography, as well as traditional and experimental approaches to creative practices. He recently published a seminal book on choreography entitled YOU, THE CHOREOGRAPHER, Creating the Crafting Dance, Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, London in New York, copyright 2023-24. The book is available for viewing and purchase on various websites, including Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, Amazon Books, Barnes & Noble, and in many regional bookstores, arts institutions, and libraries. The book's brief description and features are visualized in a short infomercial on YouTube here. 

To contact directly Mr. Angelov, please write to vlad(at)danceicons.org