Judges - 2023

SARA-NORA KRYSTEVA

Jury Chairman

Graduated from the National Dance School in 1996 in the class of Kalina Bogoeva. While she was still a student, she had successful ballet performances in 1995 as follows...

Maria E. Volodina

Judge

Director of the Russian Art School GRAND BALLET – Maria E. Volodina.Honored Artist of Russia. Soloist of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of Russia.

GREGOR HATALA

Judge

Born in Vienna, Gregor Hatala grew up in the world of ballet.His father, Milan Hatala, himself a soloist dancer with various companies and ballet...

FREDY FRANZUTTI

Judge

Italian choreographer among the best known and appreciated in Italy and abroad, guest of various companies of international prestige, in 1995...

KONSTANTIN KOSTYUKOV

Judge

Kostyukov was an assistant choreographer in ballet productions Wolves by Dietmar Seyffert and Romeo and Juliet by Anatoly Sekera...

NIKOLA HRISTOV HADJITANEV

Judge

Was born on 11.12. 1987 in the city of Sofia. He graduated from the National School of Dance Art, majoring in “Classical Dance” in the class of Petar Koldamov in 2006...

KAIE KÕRB

Judge

Graduated from the Tallinn Ballet School and improved herself at the Vaganova Ballet Academy in Saint Petersburg. She was a principal of the Estonian...

Prof. Dr. Maria / Masha Ilieva

Judge

She graduated from the prestigious Vaganova Academy – St. Petersburg, after which she started working at the Sofia Opera. She has been a prima ballerina for 20 years...

MARTA PETKOVA

Judge

Was born on January 14th 1986 in Sofia, Bulgaria. She graduated in the same city at the National School of Dance in the class of Rumiana Atanasova in 2004...

ANA PAVLOVIC

Judge

Born on November 12, 1973 in Belgrade. She graduated from “Lujo Davičo” Ballet High School in Belgrade in 1991. As a student, in the she played the main role...

ANNA PAMPOULOVA

Judge

In 1993 graduated from the State Choreographic School school with “classical ballet” and parallel Experimental theater class 4xC to the 22nd...

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