21 May 2019 (Tue), 19:00 World famous Bolshoi Ballet and Opera theatre (established 1776) - Marvellous Main (Historic) Stage - Classical Ballet "Benois de la Danse" Awarding Ceremony and Prize Winners Ballet Gala Tickets available only at OperaAndBallet.com
The performance has 1 intermission
Schedule for "Benois de la Danse" Awarding Ceremony and Prize Winners Ballet Gala 2020
Ballet company: Bolshoi Ballet Orchestra: Bolshoi Theatre Symphony Orchestra
The Benois de la Danse is a major international dance prize for ballet professionals produced in cooperation with the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, each year the nominees include dancers from around the world.
On June 2020 and 3 June 2020 on the Historic stage of the Bolshoi Theatre will take place Festival Benois de la Danse — 2020 under the artistic leadership of Yuri Grigorovich. The participants of the galas are nominees to the Prize —2020 and laureates of different years.
“The ballet theatre is unique. Different periods of the history of the dancing art live together in harmony on its stage. The staging, the librettos and the scores never reach a forgotten old age. Of all the theater arts, this timeless harmony is possible only in ballet. The task of Benois De La Danse is to honour the extraordinary events in the colorful world of dance, merging classical ballet with contemporary and modern productions.”
Yury Grigorovich President of the International Dance Union, Chairman of the Jury of BENOIS DE LA DANSE, Choreographer of Bolshoi Theatre of Russia,
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Among this year nominees are dancers from 12 of the best classical and contemporary companies in the world. Preceding the concert, the Jury, under the leadership of Yuri Grigorovich, will announce the names of Benois-2020 laureates.
Besides this year nominees and laureates, the brilliant star of the American Ballet Theatre Herman Cornejo will participate in the Gala. He will receive the Prize awarded to him in 2014 and will dance with his sister, prima-ballerina Erica Cornejo, Tango choreographed for them by Benois nominee Anna-Maria Stekelman.
List of the Jury 2020:
YURI GRIGOROVICH – President
SVETLANA ZAKHAROVA – Co- President, international star, prima-ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia and La-Scala Theatre
JACOPO GODANI – Choreographer, artistic director of Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company
JOAQUIN DE LUZ – Artistic director of the Spanish National Dance Company
ELISABETH PLATEL –Director of Paris Opera Ballet School
EDWARD WATSON – Star of the Royal Ballet London
ASHLEY WHEATER – Artistic director of Joffrey Ballet
LILI XIN – Artistic director of Shanghai Ballet
The detailed programme is kept in secret and will be know just several days before the performance, as it is a surprise for the ballet lovers from the Bolshoi Theatre. Below you can see programme of the previous Awarding Ceremony and Prize Winners Ballet Gala.
BENOIS DE LA DANSE-2019 LAUREATES:
The Russian-Italian Prize Benois-Massine
Anna Laudere
CHOREOGRAPHERS
Fredrik Benke Rydman
Christian Spuck
FEMALE DANCERS
Ashley Bouder
Elisa Carrillo Cabrera
MALE DANCERS
Vadim Muntagirov
DESIGNERS
John Macfarlane
LIFE ACHIEVEMENT
Jiri Kylian
Jury Benois de la Danse-2019:
Juri Grigorovich - President of the jury; Svetlana Zakharova - Bolshoi Theatre Prima ballerina, the Co-Chairman; Dirk Badenhorst - CEO of the South African International Ballet Competition, founder of the South African Mzansi Ballet and CuDanSA school; Ted Brandsen - Director of Dutch National Ballet; Ana Laguna - international star, ballet master and coach; Agnès Letestu - Paris Opera Ballet etoile (1997 – 2013), now guest star, costume designer; Vladimir Malakhov - international star, choreographe, r coach; Rachel Moore - President and CEO of the Los Angeles Music Center.
Program of the last year:
PART I
MATTHEW PIERCE – Benois-2019 nominee Excerpt from THE WIZARD OF OZ Choreography by SEPTIME WEBRE – Benois-2019 nominee The Kansas City Ballet soloists
LILIANA HAGERMAN JEREMY HANSON LAMIN DOS SANTOS Colorado Ballet soloist CHRISTOPHOR MOULTON Royal Winnipeg Ballet soloist STEPHAN AZULAY Russian premiere
KATE WHITLEY – Benois -2019 nominee. Excerpt from IGNITE Choreography by JUANJO ARQUÉS– Benois-2019 nominee soloists of Dutch National Ballet ANNA TSYGANKOVA YOUNG GUY CHOI Piano – KATE WHITLEY Russian premiere
THE TREATMENT (NUTCRACKER - RELOADING) to music by P. Tchaikovsky Choreography by FREDRIK BENKE RYDMAN – Benois-2019 nominee House of Shapes soloists ELLEN LINDBLAD DANIEL KOIVUNEN Russian premiere
Excerpt from WINTERREISE to music by F. Schubert/ H. Zender Choreography by CHRISTIAN SPUCK – Benois-2019 nominee Ballet Zurich soloists ELENA VOSTROTINA COHEN AITCHISON-DUGAS DOMINIK SLAVKOVSKY Moscow premiere
Excerpt from ARTIFACT-SUITE to music by I.S. Bach Choreography by W. FORSYTHE – Benois de la Danse laureate Royal Swedish Ballet soloists KAHO YANAGISAWA – Benois-2019 nominee JONATAN DAVIDSSON
L. Delibes Excerpts from SYLVIA Choreography by MANUEL LEGRIS – Benois de la danse laureate, Benois-2019 nominee Based on the ballet by LUIS MÉRANTE Vienna State Ballet soloists NIKISHA FOGO DENIS CHEREVICHKO – nominee of Benois de la Danse
Duet from act II of LADY OF THE CAMELLIAS to music by F. Chopin Choreography by J. NEUMEIER – Benois de la Danse laureate Dutch National Ballet soloists MAIA MAKHATELI– Benois-2019 nominee JAMES STOUT
ADAGIETTO from FIFTH SYMPHONY music by G. Mahler Choreography by J.NEUMEIER – Benois de la Danse laureate Hamburg Ballet soloists ANNA LAUDERE – Benois–Massine Prize laureate EDVIN REVAZOV
PART II
S. Prokofiev Duet from ROMEO AND JULIET Choreography by N. DUATO – Benois de la Danse laureate, State Ballet Berlin soloist ELISA CARRILLO CABRERA – Benois- 2019 nominee Mikhailovsky Theatre soloist IVAN ZAYTSEV
I. Demutsky – Benois de la Danse laureate A LETTER TO RUDI. THE PUPIL scene from NUREYEV Choreography by Y.POSSOKHOV – Benois de la Danse laureate Bolshoi Theatre of Russia soloist VIATCHESLAV LOPATIN – Benois-2019 nominee
CARRING MY OWN STAGE to music by E. Satie Choreography by A. ROJO soloist of Malpaso Company ABEL ROJO - Benois-2019 nominee Piano – VALERIA KACHUROVSKAYA Russian premiere H.S. Løvenskiold
Pas de deux from LA SYLPHIDE Choreography by A.BOURNONVILLE The Washington Ballet soloists MAKI ONUKI ANDILE NDLOVU – Benois-2019 nominee
Duet from the act III of LADY OF THE CAMELLIAS to music by F. Chopin Choreography by J.NEUMEIER – Benois de la Danse laureate Paris Opera Ballet soloist AMANDINE ALBISSON – Benois-2019 nominee Hamburg Ballet soloist EDVIN REVAZOV
THE OTHER YOU to music by L. van Beethoven Choreography by C. PITE – Benois de ls Danse laureate Hubbard Street Dance Chicago soloists MICHAEL GROSS ANDREW MURDOCK Russian premiere
L.Delibes Pas de deux from COPPÉLIA Choreography by G. BALANCHINE and A. DANILOVA after M. PETIPA ©The George Balanchine Trust New York City Ballet soloist ASHLEY BOUDER Passific North-West Ballet soloist SETH ORZA
K. Henson TAKE A DEEP BREATH Choreography by CH. WHEELDON San Francisco Ballet soloists YUAN YUAN TAN – Benois-2019 nominee CARLO DI LANNO Moscow premiere
L.Minkus Pas de deux from DON QUIXOTE Choreography by A. GORSKY Stuttgart State Ballet soloist ELISA BADENES DANIEL CAMARGO – Benois -2019 nominee
About project
International ballet prize by "Benoits de la of dans" ("Benois de la danse") is awarded yearly for the most salient works in the region of choreography in last year. This only in its kind ballet reward of press from the very beginning was named "ballet Oscar".
Prize is founded in Moscow by the international association of the workers of choreography, the now international union of the workers of choreography, and it is represented for the first time in 1991 on the scene of the Bolshoi theater.
Organizer of project - Public Noncommercial Organization "Center of Benoits". The President of union, salient choreographer Yuri Grigorovich, are the artistic leader of project and, on the post, by the chairman of judges.
The yearly changed international judges, which consists of the most authoritative workers of world choreography - leaders of the largest ballet companies, salient choreographers, well-known teachers, the stars of world ballet, advances nominantov and, working for a period of year, as a result are determined best.
Author of the statuette of prize - well-known Parisian sculptor Igor Ustinov, the representative of the renowned family of the Benoits.
The presentation of prize is devoted to the international Day of Dance - on 29 April - Declared UNESCO. The conquerors of prize on all nominations declare during the yearly charitable "Benois de la danse - Gala" the stars of ballet - laureates and degree students of prize.
In 1992 the prize by "Benoits de la of dans" is accepted under patronazh OF UNESCO, in 1996 it is included in the program OF UNESCO "world decade of culture". In 2002 the ministry of culture of the Russian Federation included project into the federal program the "cultural heritage of Russia". Federal agency on culture and cinematography lends financial and organizational support project.
Since 2003 the project was enlarged to the framework of the festival, in program of which in 2004, besides the traditional evening of the presentation of prize and charitable Gala-concert of those rewarded, on 23 February in the London theater of sedlers Wales even on 28 April in the Bolshoi theater in Moscow took place the Gala-concerts the "Stars OF BENOITS DE LA dans - laureates of different years".
From the history of prize
First four years the presentation of prize "BENOITS DE LA DANS" passed to the Bolshoi theater of Russia. The five-year anniversary of prize was noted solemn gala in the palace OF UNESCO in Paris (1996). Then the scene of national theater in Warsaw (1997) assumed prize, State Kremlin palace (1998), Berlin Shtatsopera (1999), Shtatsteatr in Stuttgart (2000).
The tenth anniversary, eleventh and twelfth presentations of prize and BENOIT DE LA DANS - Gala of laureates (2002, 2003, 2004) they again passed in Moscow on the scene of the Bolshoi theater.
In 2005 - on 26 April on the scene of the Bolshoi theater of Russia take place the sequential thirteenth presentation of prize and the charitable Gala-concert of those rewarded; - on 27 April there - the Gala-concert of ballet the "Stars OF BENOITS DE LA dans - the laureates of different years".
Schedule for "Benois de la Danse" Awarding Ceremony and Prize Winners Ballet Gala 2020

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