Benois de la Danse 2017 – Defile of the Stars and New Laureates. Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, 30.5.2017.

Program and Cast

Part 1

• Victoria Jaiani and Joseph Walsh in Toi Moi, music by Ilya Demutsky, choreography by Yuri Possokhov. World Premiere.
• Elisa Badenes and David Moor in Salomé, music by Vladimir Martynov, choreography by Demis Volpi
• Ida Kallanvaara and Giacomo Altovino (Dortmund Ballet) in Hora, music by Ada Milea, choreography by Edward Clug
• Maria Riccetto and Gustavo Carvalho (Uruguay National Ballet) in Romeo and Juliet, music by Sergei Prokofiev, choreography by Kenneth MacMillan.
• Ayano Kimura and Brooklyn Mack (The Washington Ballet) in Diane and Acteon, music by Cesare Pugni, choreography by Agrippina Vaganova
• Seul-Ki Park and Jae-Woo Lee (Korean National Ballet) in Spartacus, music by Aram Khachaturian, choreography by Yuri Grigorovich
• Misa Kuranaga and Paolo Arrais (Boston Ballet) in Tchaikovsky pas de Deux, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, choreography by George Balanchine

Part 2

• Lauren Strongin and Joseph Walsh (San-Francisco Ballet) in Seven Sonatas, music by Domenico Scarlatti, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky
• Drew Jacoby and Matt Foley in Dido and Aenas, music by Henry Purcell, choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
• Léonore Baulac and Hugo Marchand (Paris Opera Ballet) in Romeo and Juliet, music by Sergei Prokofiev, choreography by Rudolf Nureyev
• Davide Dato (Vienna State Ballet) as Abderakhman in Raymonda, music by Alexander Glazunov, choreography by Rudolf Nureyev.
• Nina Kaptsova and Denis Rodkin in Lady of the Camellias, music by Frédéric Chopin, choreography by John Neumeier
• Mi Ji Chekal, Na Rea Han, Eun Young Joung, Hyo Hyun Kang, Ha Lim Kim, Ji He Kim, Seul Ki Park (Korean National Ballet) in Into the Pulse, music by Puri, choreography by Hyo-Hyun Kang

 

 

Jubilee Jury

under the presidency of Yuri Grigorovich

• Julio Bocca — Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Uruguay;
• Jorma Elo — Choreographer;
• Sue Jin Kang — Artistic Director of the Korean National Ballet;
• Julie Kent — Artistic Director of the Washington Ballet;
• Manuel Legris — Artistic Director of the Vienna State Ballet;
• Brigitte Lefevre — Ex-Director of the Paris Opera Ballet, Director of Danse Biennale in Cannes;
• Svetlana Zakharova — Prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia.