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Nina Petrenko

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Figure Skating Choreographer

BIO

Nina Petrenko was born and raised in Odessa, Ukraine where she trained as a dancer at the Odessa School of Ballet. Though her mother Galina Zmievskaya was an important figure skating coach, she never pursued the sport. Instead, she became a dancer with the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater before turning to choreography. In 1992, she married her mother's star pupil, Viktor Petrenko and their daughter Viktoria was born in 1997. Petrenko has choreographed figure skating programs for Ekaterina Gordeeva, Lucinda Ruh, Silvia Fontana, Scott Davis, Johnny Weir and Ksenia Makarova, among others, and she coaches at the Ice Vault in New Jersey.