Master academy


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.

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...

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.

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...

NIKOLA HRISTOV HADJITANEV
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.

KOSTAS KAFANTARIS
JudgeIs a prominent Greek ballet master, educator, and organizer of ballet projects. Having graduated from prestigious academies, he has dedicated his career to the...

VLADIMIR ANGELOV
JudgeGraduated in 1986 from the National School of Dance Arts in Sofia. He danced in the ballet "Arabesque" and studied philosophy part-time at the Sofia University...

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

ELISA PETROVA LUKANOVA
JudgeIn 1979, she began her ballet education at the State Choreographic School (now NUTI) in Sofia, where she studied until 1984 in the class of Prof. Lilyana Draguleva.

ATANAS M. SREBREV
JudgeStudied Drama and Musical Theater at the National Academy of Theater and Film Arts and graduated at the top of his class (Summa Cum Laude).