She/Her Abigail’s dance career started when she was just four years old with the Avrora Ukrainian Dancers in Fort McMurray. Following her family to Edmonton, Abigail joined the Shumka  School of Dance where her love for the Shumka family grew. In 2022, she successfully auditioned for Studia Shumka where she could have training to guide her towards her goal of Shumka.…

She/Her Ukrainian dance has been a part of Malia’s life for as long as she can remember. She began dancing at the age of 3, and later started ballet training when she was 11, along with other dance disciplines such as jazz and contemporary. Then in 2020 she joined Studia Shumka and was able to dance and train with them…

She/Her Kieran Waller began her dance training at the age of three. She started to train competitively at the age of six in ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, lyrical and acro. Throughout her years of competitive dance,she received multiple scholarships to expand hertraining via intensive programs in New York, Las Vegas, Hawaii, LA, Greece and locally throughout Alberta and BC. Kieran was first introduced to Ukrainian dance at the age of seven and quickly fell…

He/Him Joseph Ewaskiw began dancing at four years of age with Dance Unlimited’s Ukrainian program.  In 2018 he joined Shumka School of Dance where he was taught by company members who quickly inspired his dreams of one day dancing with Shumka. At age thirteen, Joseph’s dancing hobby quickly turned into his passion and that passion has only grown since. Joseph’s parents…