2011
World Ballet Festival.
XIX Benois de la Danse
Ceremony

Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre

Jury

Juri Grigorovich

President of the jury

Jose Antonio

Davide Bombana

Philippe Cohen

Krzysztof Pastor

Sergey Filin

Pedro Pablo Peña

Feng Ying

Laureates

Toer van Schayk

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet

CHOREOGRAPHERS

Jorma Elo

CHOREOGRAPHERS

Bernice Coppieters

FEMALE DANCERS

Zhu Yan

FEMALE DANCERS

Fernando Romero

MALE DANCERS

Rolando Sarabia

MALE DANCERS

Semyon Chudin

MALE DANCERS

NOMINEESLIFE ACHIEVEMENT

Toer van Schayk

CHOREOGRAPHER

Crystal Pite

Plot Point, B.Hermanns, Netherlands Dance Theatre

Zhenxin Zhang

Close your Eyes when it´ s Getting Dark, R.Ikeda, E.Serra, D.-E. Edwards, National Ballet of China

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet

Babel, Divers music, Eastman (Belgium)

Jorma Elo

A Midsummer Night´s Dream, F. Mendelssohn, Vienna State Ballet;
Slice to Sharp (new version), H. Biber, A.Vivaldi, Stanislavsky Ballet Company (Moscow, Russia)

FEMALE DANCERS

Ekaterina Kondaurova

The title role in Anna Karenina, R.Schedrine/A.Ratmansky, Mariinsky Theatre

Bernice Coppieters

The title role in Scheherazade, N.Rimsky-Korsakov/J.-Ch. Maillot, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo

Alexandra Liashenko

The title role in Cinderella", S.Prokofiev/F.Ashton, Polish National Ballet

Lorena Feijoo

Kitri in Don Quixote. L.Minkus/M.Petipa, A.Gorsky (version of Jorge Texeira), Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami (USA)

Zhu Yan

Тhe grown up girl in Outrenoire, J.Cage/J.Bubeniček, National Ballet of China

Maria Yakovleva

Principal party in Rubies, I.Stravinsky/G.Balanchine, Vienna State Ballet

MALE DANCERS

Cédric Ygnace

Basilio, Don Quichot, L.Minkus/ M.Petipa, A.Gorsky (version of A.Ratmansky), Het National Ballet (Netherlands)

Fernando Romero

Dante in Paseo por el Amor y la Muerte, J.Cage, T.Takemitsu, Y.Matsudaira, collage of cantaores clasicos antiguos/F.Romero, Theatre Lope de Vega (Sevilla, Spain)

Rolando Sarabia

Basilio, Don Quixote, L.Minkus/M.Petipa, A.Gorsky (version of Jorge Texeira), Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami (USA)

Hao Bin

the grown up boy in Outrenoire, J.Cage/J.Bubeniček, National Ballet of China

Semyon Chudin

Feb in Esmeralda, C.Pungi, R.Glière, S.Vasilenko/V.Burmeister;
Slice to Sharp, H. Biber, A.Vivaldi/J.Elo;
La Petite Morte, V.A.Mozart/J.Kilian, Stanislavsky Ballet Company (Moscow, Russia)