The competition was attended by 170 young performers from 14 countries. Participants competed in three age groups: Juniors A and B, Senior group. Each group has two nominations – boys and girls, men and women.
The jury consisted of 11 people from South Korea, Russia, China, USA, Belarus, Mongolia, Poland, Great Britain and Japan. Chairman of the Jury Xin LILI – Artistic Director of the Shanghai Ballet. The competition was held in three rounds. In the first and third rounds, works from classical ballets were performed, and in the second round – contemporary choreographers. The results of all three rounds were summed up, and this amount of points was the final evaluation of the performance of the participant in the competition. Based on the results of the secret ballot, the jury distributed the prizes and awards as follows:
Juniors A (boys)
1st Prize – Jun Hyoung Yoon (South Korea)
2 prize – not awarded
3rd Prize – Do Hyon Kwon (South Korea)
Diploma – Seong Un Choo (China)
Juniors A (girls)
1st Prize – Hirata Arisu and Shoda Noa (both Japan)
2nd Prize – Na Neul Kim (South Korea) and Ye Jin Choi (China)
3rd Prize – Min Koung Kim and You Jung Jung (South Korea)
Juniors B (boys) 1st Prize – Gyeong Ho Kang (South Korea) 2nd Prize – Hyun Mo Koo (South Korea) 3rd Prize – Davi Gabriel da Silva Franco (Brazil) diploma – Ivan Matveev (Russia) Senio Group (Signora) Men 1st Prize – Stanislav Olshansky (Ukraine) and Sun U Lim (South Korea) 2nd Prize – Yuri Vybornov (Russia), Se Yong Kim, In Gym Baek (South Korea) 3rd Prize – Chang Hui Lee, Hyung Jun Ju, Ji Won Park (South Korea) Women 1 prize – not awarded 2nd Prize – Julia Moskalenko (Ukraine) 3rd Prize – Chinbat Duurenjargal (Mongolia), Yu Jeong Choi, Joo Mi Jang (South Korea)
In Berlin, from February 14 to February 18, 2019, annual TANZOLYMP FESTIVAL – COMPETITION took place, and the INTERNATIONAL DANCE CONTEST-FESTIVAL WAS HELD IN KIEV in March 11-13, 2019. The results of these competitions – members of the International Ballet Federation contests will be announced in the 4th issue of the Ballet magazine.
VII International Yury Grigorovich Competition «Young Ballet of the World» will be held in Sochi Winter Theatre from September 30 to October 06, 2019. Rules and programm of the competition.
December, 1, 2018
ALL-RUSSIAN BALLET COMPETITION AND CONTEST OF CHOREOGRAPHERS in nomination “CHOREOGRAPHERS” took place from November 5-30, 2018, in Moscow.
The Assembly was attended by representatives of 18 (of 22) of the most prestigious ballet competitions in the world. At the Assembly, Director General of the Federation Sergey Usanov highlighted the organization’s work over the past year, marking, that this year was held under the auspices of the 200th anniversary of birth of the outstanding choreographer Marius Petipa, highlighting the significance of his creative works for international competitions. The Federation, in honor of the outstanding master of classical dance, held a series of gala concerts of the winners of international competitions in Germany and France in UNESCO headquaters, with the active assistance of the editorial office of Ballet Magazine, which held and organized the international round table on the topic “Marius Petipa is the era of classical dance”. Events held under the auspices of UNESCO in Paris in honor of Marius Petipa, had a very wide resonance with the French public. On November 13, the Federation held a round table on the topic “The creative heritage of Marius Petipa and his role in the competitive repertoire”. Representatives of ballet competitions, members of the jury of the International Competition “Grand Prix of Siberia”, ballet scholars and ballet critics, as well as guests of the International Forum took part in the discussion of the declared topic. The General Assembly approved and adopted the recommendation list of the repertoire for the younger group. The Assembly accepted two more contests – the International Youth Competition in Almaty “Orleu” and the Youth Competition “Grand Prix of Kiev” as its new members. In the course of the discussions held at the Assembly, a decision was made to intensify work on popularizing new names of competition winners, recommend them to theater groups, leaders of festivals and concert programs, increasing the interest of ballet dancers in participating in competitions, and forging closer contacts with international ballet festivals.
Grand Prix: George Bolsunovsky (Russia) Men – 1 Prize Yury Vybornov (Russia) 2nd prize of Onodera Shota (Japan), Sadyrkulov Farukh (Kyrgyzstan) 3rd Prize Dubenko Vladislav (Russia) Boys – 1st Prize Smilevsky Dmitry (Russia) 2nd Prize Myeng Hong Lee (Korea), Igor Gorelkin (Russia) 3rd Prize Spilchevsky Vyacheslav (Russia), Rogov Nikita (Russia)
Women – 1st Prize Alekseeva Alisa (Russia)
2nd Prize Anna Fedosova (Russia), Garmash Galina (Russia)
3rd Prize Yu Mi Jang (Korea)
Girls – 1st Prize Elizabeth Kokoreva (Russia)
2nd Prize Correia Dracing Juliana (Germany), Yu Jin Park (Korea)
3rd Prize Anastasia Shevtsova (Russia), Sofia Maimula (Russia)
Certificate – invitation to study (budget) at the Moscow State Art Academy (Moscow)
Shevtsova Anastasia (Russia), Spilchevsky Vyacheslav (Russia)
