JURY
Maya PLISETSKAYA (Primaballerina) – President
Nanette GLUSHAK (Director – Ballet du Capitole, Toulouse)
Zsuzsa KÚN (Primaballerina, Director – Hungarian Dance Academy, Budapest)
Cyril LAFAURIE (Former Director – Paris International Dance Competition)
Jaroslav SLAVICKY (Director – Dance Conservatory Prague)
Olga Guardia de SMOAK (Dance Historic – New Orleans)
Heinz SPOERLI (Director, Zurich Ballet)
György SZAKÁLY (Vice-Rector, Hungarian Dance Academy, Budapest)
Evelyn TÉRI (Professor, Director – Vienna IBC)
BALLET-MASTERS
Maria ARADI (Former Principal Dancer HET National Ballet Amsterdam)
Ulan MIRSEIDOV (Director of Ballet Academy Almaty)
Budapest, March 4 - 10, 2008
WINNERS
Rudolf Nureyev GRAND PRIX
not distributed
FIRST PRIZE
Andrei PISAREV (Ukraine) – Donetsk Ballet Theatre
Anastasia LOMACHENKOVA (Russia) – Mikhailovsky Ballet St.Petersburg
SECOND PRIZE
Gevorg ASOYAN (Armenia) – Berlin State Ballet
Lili FELMÉRY (Hungary) – Hungarian Dance Academy, Budapest
THIRD PRIZE
Doszhan TABYLDY (Kazahstan) – State Opera and Ballet Theater, Almaty
Iku NAKAGAWA (Japan) – Hungarian Dance Academy, Budapest
SPECIAL PRIZES of the Jury
Richard SZABÓ (Hungary) – Hungarian Dance Academy, Budapest
SPECIAL PRIZES of the Jury to the “Most Promising Young Dancer”
Gergely LEBLANC (Hungary) – Hungarian Dance Academy, Budapest
Ágota ECSEKI (Hungary) – Hungarian Dance Academy, Budapest
SPECIAL PRIZES of the Jury to the “Interpretation of ‘Odile”
Ekaterina OLEYNIK (Belarus) National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Minsk
‘BEST PARTNER’ PRIZE
Anton PLOOM (Russia) Mikhailovsky Ballet St.Petersburg