Judges

SARA-NORA KRYSTEVA
Jury ChairmanGraduated 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...

MARTA PETKOVA
JudgeWas 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.

NIKOLA HRISTOV HADJITANEV
JudgeWas 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.

DR. MARIA / MASHA ILIEVA
JudgeShe 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.

ANA PAVLOVIC
JudgeBorn on November 12, 1973 in Belgrade. She graduated from "Lujo Davičo" Ballet High School in Belgrade in 1991. s a student, in the she played the main role in “La Bayadère”

AYŞEM SUNAL SAVAŞKURT
JudgeStudied at Ankara State Conservatoire. Robert Denvers noticed her talent at the International Ballet Competition in Osaka and invited her to join the Royal Ballet...

DR. SEON-HEE JANG
JudgeHas been professor at the department of dance, Sejong University since 1993. Dr. Jang is currently member of the Board for the Korean National Ballet

MICHAL KRCMAR
Judgeis a Star dancer of the Finnish National Ballet. While now, ballet is his passion, it did not begin that way. As a child he found himself hating ballet class...

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

VESELA VASILEVA
JudgeBorn in Ruse, where she began her ballet education. She graduated from the National School of Music and Dance in Sofia. Even as a student, she took part in ...