International Baltic Ballet Competition 2013

I INTERNATIONAL BALTIC BALLET COMPETITION 2013 RESULTS

JUNIOR GROUP

1st place winner – Edvinas Jakonis (Lithuania)
2nd place winner – Agate Zalite (Latvia)
3rd place winner – Katrina Bezdeliga (Latvia)

PRE-PROFESSIONAL GROUP

1st place winner – Marta Ozolina (Latvia)
2nd place winner – Marita Weinrank (Estonia)
3rd place winner – Veronika Ovchinnikova (Belarus)

PROFESSIONAL GROUP

1st place winner – Daria Elmakova (Russia)
2nd place winner – Annija Kopshtale (Latvia)
3rd place winner – Miles Gilliver (United Kingdom)
3rd place winner – Jolanata Lubeja (Latvia)

SPECIAL PRIZE

Jonas Laucius (Lithuania) – BALLET SUMMER COURSE BERLIN

ARTISTICS PRIZE

Luis Javier Fuentes Bermudez de Castro (South Africa) – Maruta Grozberga painting

The committee of the jury of the International Baltic ballet competition

Aivars Leimanis (main choreographer and Artistic Director of Latvian National Ballet, Riga).

Irina Chistyakova (coach of the Mariinsky Theatre, Saint-Petersburg)

Viktor Barikin (coach of Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow)

Cyril Atanassoff (a famous French dancer and repetiteur, teaches classical dance in Paris National Superior Conservatory of Paris for Music and Dance, France)

Ekaterina Shchelkanova (works as a coach at the Royal Ballet of Canada, the Grand Ballet of Canada in Montreal and other ballet companies, has been organizing the «Open World” foundation, Canada)

The muse of jury committee — Uliana Lopatkina

Photo by Jack Devant with kind permission of the IBBC, special thanks to Marina Seiko and Regina Kaupuza.