Lone Star Circus
Rhythmic Gymnastics
ABOUT RHYTHMIC
Vita Kvitko Bachman is originally from Kiev, Ukraine where she trained with Natalia Kiseleva, a National Team coach at the world famous Deryugina school. After moving to the United States in 2000 for her master’s degree in business administration, Vita continued her involvement with rhythmic gymnastics as a coach and a Junior Olympic judge. In 2005 she was elected as the USA Gymnastics Rhythmic Regional Chair and served in this capacity for seven years. Before her husband’s job brought her to Dallas, Vita was the head coach and a business owner of Legacy Rhythmic Gymnastics in Nashville, Tennessee. Over the years Vita produced numerous invitational, state, regional and national champions and qualified over 20 gymnasts to the Compulsory and Optional Junior Olympics National Championships. Vita’s students have always been known for having the classical, authentic, eastern-European style training, clean execution and individually tailored choreography. She is married to Bill Bachman, a world renowned percussion instructor and they have two young children.
ABOUT THE COACH
Rhythmic Gymnastics is an Olympic sport which borders on art. It is a unique combination of the ballet body technique, various styles of dance; flexibility and strength training; and creative apparatus handling with a rope, a hoop, a ball, clubs and a ribbon.
Each movement of a rhythmic gymnastics routine involves a high degree of athletic skill. Physical abilities needed by a rhythmic gymnast include strength, power, flexibility, agility, dexterity and endurance. In the group event, athletes need to develop teamwork, sensitivity, quick adaptation and anticipation in addition to the aforementioned skills. Because each piece of apparatus is so different in its composition, the athlete must coordinate very difficult body movements with the apparatus elements.
