2008
World Ballet Festival.
XVI Benois de la Danse
Ceremony
Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre
Jury
Juri Grigorovich
Loipa Araujo
Julio Bocca
Asami Maki
William Whitener
Alessandra Ferri
Boris Eifman
Laureates
Fernando Alonso
LIFE ACHIEVEMENT
Jean-Christophe Maillot
CHOREOGRAPHERS
Silvia Azzoni
FEMALE DANCERS
Tamara Rojo
FEMALE DANCERS
Carlos Acosta
MALE DANCERS
Marcelo Gomes
MALE DANCERS
NOMINEESLIFE ACHIEVEMENT
Fernando Alonso
MALE DANCERS
NOMINEESFEMALE DANCERS
Eleonora Abbagnato
Albertine, Proust ou les intermettences du coeur, L.Beethoven, C. Debussy, G. Fauré, C. Franck, R. Hahn, C. Saint-Saëns, R. Wagner/ R. Petit, National Paris Opera
Silvia Azzoni
The title role in The Little Mermaid, L. Auerbach/J. Neumeier, Hamburg Ballet, Germany
Jillian Murphy
Titania in The Dream, F. Mendelssohn - J. Lanchbery/F. Ashton, American Ballet Theatre, New York
Tamara Rojo
Pas de deux from Esmeralda, C. Pugni/M. Petipa, Pas de deux from Carmen, G. Bizet/R. Petit, Naples, Italy
Cecilia Figaredo
Lucia in Adios, Hermano Cruel, L. Vitale/A. M. Stekelman, Ballet Argentino, Buenos Aires
NOMINEESMALE DANCERS
Carlos Acosta
The title role in Spartacus, A. Khachaturian/Y. Grigorovich, Bolshoi Theatre of Russia
Marcelo Gomes
The principal male part in C to C (Close to Chuck), Ph. Glass/J. Elo, American Ballet Theatre, New York; The title role in Othello, E. Goldenthal/L. Lubovich, American Ballet Theatre in Washington
Denis Matvienko
Armand Duval in La Dame aux Camélias, H. Berlioz/A. Maki, New National Theatre, Tokio
Lucas Oliva
Franko in Adios, Hermano Cruel, L. Vitale/A. M. Stekelman, Ballet Argentino, Buenos Aires
Yuri Smekalov
Trigorin, Seagull, S. Rakhmaninov/B. Eifman, Boris Eifman State Academic Ballet Theatre
CHOREOGRAPHERS
David Bintley
Cyrano, C. Davis, Birmingham Royal Ballet
Jean-Christophe Maillot
Faust, F.Liszt, B.Maillot, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Kirk Peterson
Othello, J.Goldsmith, Alberta Ballet, Canada
Ana Maria Stekelman
Adios, Hermano Cruel, L.Vitale, Ballet Argentino, Buenos Aires
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