Her positions have included the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Illinois, Michigan State University, Olivet College, Albion College and a year as artist in residence in Oslo, Norway. She also taught at the Vaganova Ballet Academy in June of 2007 during a Teachers’ Seminar and the Vaganova Prix. She was honored with a certificate verifying her teaching at the Academy and received a teacher’s certificate in the Vaganova Ballet Method. She was the only non-Russian to participate in the teachers’ seminar. Mrs. Banasikowski Smith received her BFA in dance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her MA in dance from the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana. She studied ballet at the Warsaw Ballet/Opera and Polish ethnic dances at the University of Maria Curie Sklodowski in Lublin, Poland. Learn more about Mrs. Barbara Banasikowski Smith.