2012
World Ballet Festival.
XX Benois de la Danse
Ceremony

Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre

Jury

Juri Grigorovich

President of the jury

John Neumeier

Altynai Azylmuratova

Laurent Hilaire

Kim Joo-Won

Manuel Legris

Alessandra Ferri

Jorma Elo

Laureates

Lar Lubovitch

CHOREOGRAPHERS

Alina Cojocaru

FEMALE DANCERS

Mathias Heymann

MALE DANCERS

Carsten Jung

MALE DANCERS

Michel Legrand

COMPOSERS

NOMINEESLIFE ACHIEVEMENT

Pierre Lacotte

CHOREOGRAPHER

Patrik de Bana

Marie Antoinette, G. Ph. Telemann, A. Vivaldi, L. M. Cobo, Chevalier de Saint-George, W. A. Mozart, I. Ch. Bach, J. -Ph. Rameau. Version of 2011. Vienna State Ballet.

Jean-Guillaume Bart

La Source, L. Minkus, L. Délibes. National Paris Opera.

Lar Lubovitch

Crisis Variations, E. Sharlat. Lubovitch Dance Company of New York, NY.

Chung Eui-Sook, Daniel H. Byun

Interview with Isang Yun, I. Yun(arrangement by Kim Tae-hoon). Arzid Modern Dance Company of Seoul.

Boris Eifman

Rodin, M. Ravel, K, Saint-Saȅns, G. Massenet, C. Debussy, E. Satie. State Academic St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre of Boris Eifman (Russia).

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT

Marina Kondratieva

FEMALE DANCERS

Kathleen Breen Combes

Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, S. Prokofiev/J. Cranko;
Titania in A Summer Night's Dream, F. Mendelssohn/G. Balanchine. Boston Ballet (USA).

Olga Esina

The title role in Marie Antoinette, G. Ph. Telemann, A. Vivaldi, L. M. Cobo, Chevalier de Saint-George, W. A. Mozart, I. Ch. Bach, J. -Ph. Rameau./P. de Bana. Version of 2011, Vienna State Ballet.

Ji-Young Kim

The title role in Giselle, A. Adam/P. Bart;
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, S. Prokofiev/J. -Ch. Maillot. Korea National Ballet.

Alina Cojocaru

Julie in Liliom. M. Legrand/J. Neumeier. Hamburg Ballet (Germany).

Sara Mearns

Honorata in Ocean's Kingdom, P. McCartney/P. Martins. New York City Ballet.

Euguenia Obraztsova

Kitri in Don Quixote, L. Minkus/A. Fadeechev (after A. Gorsky and M. Petipa). Bolshoi Theatre of Russia.

Laёtitia Pujol

The title role in Cinderella, S. Prokofiev/R. Nureev. National Paris Opera.

MALE DANCERS

Matthew Golding

Prince in Nutcracker and the Mouse King, P. Chaikovski/W. Eagling, T. van Schajk. Het National Ballet of Amsterdam.

Vladislav Lantratov

Basil in Don Quixote, L. Minkus/A. Fadeechev (after A. Gorsky and M. Petipa). Bolshoi Theatre of Russia.

Lee Dong-Hoon

Albert in Giselle, A. Adam/P. Bart;
Romeo in Romeo and Julet S. Prokofiev/J. -Ch. Maillot;
Prince in Nutcracker, P. Chaikovski/Y. Grigorovitch. Korea National Ballet.