Unfortunately, candidates can no longer apply for this year, but audience the can still buy their tickets!

It will be held on 25-26 adn 28 Sept 03 in Birmingham...

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Lords of the dance
By Annie Roberts, icBirmingham


After Sydney last year, the world's most prestigious ballet awards are being staged in Birmingham in September. Annie Roberts found out more about ballet's 'Oscars'.

The world is at the feet of young dancers who will be arriving in Birmingham to compete in the world's most prestigious ballet awards.

Sydney, Australia, played host to the Genee International Ballet Competition last year; now it is the turn of Birmingham to welcome the 'Oscars' of the ballet world.

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Hunt for next big thing in ballet
By Emma Brady, Birmingham Post


David Bintley hopes to attract the masses to the cultured world of ballet as a major dance contest is staged in Birmingham for the first time.

As Birmingham Royal Ballet's artistic director, he would like to see more people taking an interest in what is seen by many as being an inaccessible art form.

So in a bid to get the public interested, they are being invited to watch students, aged between 15 and 19, compete in the Genee International Ballet Competition finals at the Birmingham Hippodrome on September 28.

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