She completed her dance training at the State School of Ballet and Choreography of Minsk² (Belarus) where she was a pupil of Vera Shvetsova (distinguished disciple of Agrippina Vaganova), who danced in the Maly Theatre of Saint Petersburg (Russia) and in the Great Theater of Opera and Ballet of Riga (Latvia).

Since 1985, is a Teacher of Ballet, giving classes in Odesa (Ukraine), Saratov and Saint Petersburg (Russia), Madrid, Valencia, Puertollano and Lugo (Spain) and Ashiya and Nishinomiya (Japan) Founder and artistic director of the Institute of Investigation and Studies of Dance (Instituto de Investigación y Estudios de Danza) in Madrid (Spain).

Stepanova has published numerous articles of criticism in newspapers and weeklies in Ukraine (Vechirnia Odesa), Russia (Glásnost, Perestroika and Dance), Spain (El Cultural of La Razón) and United States[citation needed].

As a teacher intent on purity and on the maintenance of choreographic heritage of classical ballet, Stepanova created a short version of The Sleeping Beauty (1h 20'), which best maintains the heritage of Marius Petipa in the steps that are conserved as well as in those that are added in his style.

This version premiered December seven, 2008, in the Hyogo Performing Arts Center4 (Nishinomiya, Japan), under the title of Sleeping Beauty Suite.