Biography

Elena Samodanova is an international, multi-award winning artist originally from Russia. She has worked extensively throughout Asia, United Kingdom, Australia, North America and Europe as a judge, choreographer and dancer while also being a mentor to many dancers across the world. Some of her major credits include being a judge and choreographer on "Dancing With The Stars - Russia", touring North America with "Dancing Pros Live" and creatively assisting Gleb Savchenko in "Strictly Come Dancing" in the UK and "Dancing With The Stars" in Bollywood.

Elena holds the highest credentials and qualifications to teach in Russia, Hong Kong, Australia and England. She has won the 4 major dance titles down under and went on to represented Australia in the World Dance Championship, where she finished in the Top 10 world ranking in Latin American dance.
- IMDb mini biography by: Elena Samodanova

Elena Samodanova is an international multi-award winning artist originally from Russia, who has worked extensively throughout Asia, United Kingdom, Australia, North America and Europe as a judge, choreographer and dancer while also being a mentor to many dancers across the world. Some of her major credits include being featured in the Russian version of TV hit show "Dancing With The Stars" as a Judge and Choreographerin 2015, touring North America with "Dancing Pros Live"2016 and creatively assisting Gleb Savchenko in Strictly Come Dancing in the UK 2015, also in Series 7 of "Dancing With The Stars" in Bollywood aka "Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa" 2014 on the Colors TV Channel in India to great acclaim. Prior to that she has also worked on both the Australian and American versions of hit TV show "Dancing With The Stars" as well as the Australian version of "So You Think You Can Dance"2014. Elena also holds the highest credentials and qualifications to teach in Russia, Hong Kong, Australia and England. She has also won the 4 major dance titles down under and as a result she has represented Australia on the World Dance Championship reaching Top 10 world ranking in Latin American with WDC. Her international championship titles also include being the Australia Professional, Asian, Japanese, Singaporean and England Champion.
- IMDb mini biography by: Elena Samodanova

Has 2 daughters with her husband Gleb Savchenko - Olivia Savchenko (1st November 2010) and Zlata Savchenko (b. August 1, 2017).

Mother, with Gleb Savchenko, of daughters Olivia (born in 2010) and Zlata (born in 2017).

Dancer.