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Ballet Competition Vaganova-PRIX revived after ten year break

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Ballet Competition Vaganova-PRIX revived after ten year break


24.10.2016

Photo: The Vaganova Ballet Academy/Facebook
The Ballet Competition Vaganova-PRIX has been revived after a ten year break in Saint Petersburg, reports TASS. Students of over 50 Russian and foreign choreography schools, colleges and academies sent their applications for the competition. Young ballet dancers from European and Asian countries as well as from the U.S. are to show their skills at the contest.

Ballet experts from many countries will become the contest jury members which is to be chaired by a People’s Artist of the Soviet Union Irina Kolpakova, a prima ballerina of the Kirov Theatre in 1960s-1990s.

The contest started on October 23 and it is to be held in two rounds. It will end with the award ceremony scheduled for October 29.

Initially, the Ballet Competition Vaganova-PRIX was arranged as an all-Russian one but later it became an international event and was held till 2006. The major criterion to evaluate the young ballet dancers’ skills is their ability to demonstrate a good command of basic dancing techniques developed by Agrippina Vaganova.

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