05/06/2026
✨ Ballet faculty
Pamela Kozadayev received her initial dance training at Mohawk Valley Ballet under the direction of Delia Foley in Utica, New York. She continued her training on full scholarship at the School of American Ballet in New York City for four years. At the age of 15, Mrs. Kozadayev spent one summer studying at the Summer Dance Experience in Columbia, South Carolina. While there, Columbia City Ballet Artistic Director William Starrett asked her to join the company. As a principal/soloist with Columbia City Ballet for six years, Mrs. Kozadayev was featured in many full- length and one-act ballets. In 2001, Mrs. Kozadayev joined Columbia Classical Ballet as a principal dancer under the direction of Radenko Pavlovich. She was named ‘best female dancer in Columbia’ by the Free Times. Mrs. Kozadayev joined Houston Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in July of 2003 and held the position until her retirement in 2010. During her tenure with the Houston Ballet Mrs. Kozadayev performed works by such choreographers as George Balanchine, Ben Stevenson, Stanton Welch, Jiri Kylian, Serge Lifar, Fredrick Ashton, Kenneth McMillan, John Cranko, August Bournonville, Christopher Wheeldon, James Kudelka, Antony Tudor, Lila York and many others.
Mrs. Kozadayev was a ballet instructor and Youth Ballet company director for The Timmerman School in South Carolina, and was a ballet teacher for Uptown Dance Houston, Premiere Dance in Oklahoma, Columbia Conservatory of Dance, University of Oklahoma Summer Youth Ballet program, as well as multiple regional companies in upstate New York and Massachusetts.
Currently Mrs. Kozadayev serves as an adjunct ballet instructor at UNCSA, and also teaches in their Preparatory School. She is an ABT certified ballet teacher and recently became certified in Progressing Ballet Technique as well.
