5^th INTERNATIONAL
RUDOLF NUREYEV BALLET COMPETITION^®
Budapest, March 4 - 10, 2008

JURY

Maya PLISETSKAYA (Primaballerina) - President
Nanatte GLUSHAK (Director - Ballet du Capitole, Toulouse)
Zsuzsa KÚN (Primaballerina, Director - Hungarian Dance Academy, Budapest)
Cyril LAFAURIE (Former Director - Paris International Dance Competition)
Jaroslav SLAVICKÝ (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)

WINNERS

Rudolf Nureyev GRAND PRIX
not distributed
FIRST PRIZE
Andrei PISAREV (Ukraina)		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

FINALISTS

Egor AZARKEVICH (Belarus),
Vittorio GALLORO (Italy),
Steven MELENDEZ (USA),
Balázs MAJOROS (Hungary),
Asset MURZAKULOV (Kazakhstan),
Nurlan KONOCBAEV (Kazakhstan),
Ha Rim BYUN (Korea),
Odsuren DAGVA (Mongolia)

COMPETITORS

Gevorg ASOYAN (Armenia);
Egor AZARKEVICH, Ekaterina OLEYNIK (Belarus);
Willem HOUCK (Belgium);
Milena STOYKOVA, Georgi ASPARUHOV non-comp., Karina PETROVA (Bulgaria);
Richard SZABÓ, Lili FELMÉRY, Ágnes KELEMEN, Lilla PURSZKY, Tamara SZILÁGYI,
Réka SÁRI, Gergely LEBLANC, Balázs MAJOROS, Ágota ECSEKI (Hungary);
Vittorio GALLORO, Elena CASOLARI (Italy);
Daisuke MIURA, Saori NAGATA, Yuki IMAIZUMI, Iku NAKAGAWA (Japan);
Asset MURZAKULOV, Rakhim DAIROV, Nargiza MIRSEIDOVA, Yerlan ANDAGULOV,
Nailya KREBAYEVA, Marlen ALIMANOV, Doszhan TABYLDY,
Daniyar SHMANOV (Kazakhstan);
Nurlan KONOCBAEV (Kyrgistan);
Eun bi PARK, Ha Rim BYUN, Hye Jin PARK, Bo Ra MIN, Chin-a HWANG,
Da Young LEE, Kim Min YOUNG (Korean Republic);
Enkzorik NARMANDAKH, Odsuren DAGVA (Mongolia);
Margarita ANDREEVA, Anton PLOOM, Anastasia LOMACHENKOVA (Russia);
Lidija RADOVANOV (Serbia);
Michal BEKLEMDZIEV, Filip KVACAK, Martin KREML (Slovakia);
Anton KANDAUROV, Oxana MASLOVA, Andrei PISAREV (Ukraine);
David NAVA, Kaitlyn KINERK, Steven MELENDEZ, Monica Sang LEE (USA)