2014
World Ballet Festival.
XXII Benois de la Danse
Ceremony

Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre

Jury

Juri Grigorovich

President of the jury

Beverly D’Anne

Gabriela Komleva

Ana Laguna

Agnès Letestu

Madeleine Onne

Lidia Segni

Carla Fracci

Laureates

Brigitte Lefevre

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT

Alexei Ratmansky

CHOREOGRAPHERS

Mariko Kida

FEMALE DANCERS

Polina Semionova

FEMALE DANCERS

Herman Cornejo

MALE DANCERS

NOMINEESLIFE ACHIEVEMENT

Brigitte Lefevre

CHOREOGRAPHER

Patrik de Bana

Windspiel, Piotr Tchaikovsky. Vienna State Ballet.

Bo Fei

Bolero, Maurice Ravel. National Ballet of China.

Mauricio Wainrot

Song of the Earth, Gustav Mahler. Ballet Contemporaneo del Teatro San-Martin (Buenos Aires).

Alexei Ratmansky

Shostakovich Trilogy; Tempest, Jean Sibelius. American Ballet Theatre.

FEMALE DANCERS

Ashley Bouder

Western Symphony (Fourth movement), H.Kay/G.Balanchine;
Four Temperaments (Choleric), P. Hindemith/G.Balanchine;
Principal in Vespro, B. Moretti/M.Bigonzetti;
Cigarette, Namouna, E.Lalo/A.Ratmansky.NewYorkCityBallet

Yu Yao Liu

Valancienne, Merry Widow, F. Lehar/R. Hynd. The Hong Kong Ballet.

Mariko Kida

Juliet, Juliet and Romeo, P.Tchaikovsky/M.Ek. Royal Swedish Ballet.

Nadia Мuzyca

Grete, Cinderella, J.Strauss/R.Zanella. Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires).

Polina Semionova

Principal in Bach Partita,J.S.Bach/T.Tharp; Principal in Theme and Variations, P.Tchaikovsky/G.Balanchine;
Mazurka and Pas de deux, Les Sylphides, F.Chopin/M.Fokin; Symphony № 9 D. Shostakovich/A.Ratmansky. ABT.

Victoria Tereshkina

Title role, Carmen, G.Bizet- R. Schedrin/A.Alonso. Mariinsky Theatre.

Laura Hecquet

Princesse Aurore, Sleeping Beauty, P. Tchaikovsky/R.Nureyev after M.Petipa. National Paris Opera.

MALE DANCERS

Timur Askerov

Basile, Don Quichotte, L. Minkus/M. Petipa;
Prince Desire, Sleeping Beauty, P. Tchaikovsky/M. Petipa. Mariinsky Theatre.

Audric AudricBezard

Prince Desire, Sleeping Beauty, P.Tchaikovsky/R. Nureyev after M. Petipa. National Paris Opera.

Shen Jie

Pao Yu, The Dream of the Red Chamber, M. Nymen/Wang Xin Peng. The Hong Kong Ballet.

Claudio Coviello

Quasimodo, Notre-Dame de Paris, M. Jarre/R. Petit. La Scala.

Herman Cornejo

Aminta, Sylvia, L. Delibes/F. Ashton;
Kaliban, Tempest, J. Sibelius/A. Ratmansky;
Principal in Symphony № 9, D. Shostakovich/A. Ratmansky;
Title role in Cheri, C. Debussy and other composers/ M. Clarke. ABT.