The Nominees --
for what I have seen referred to on the internet (by Cygne?) as the
"Oscars of Ballet."
Two of the nominees that I have enjoyed seeing very much are Ekaterina Kondaurova and Rolando Sarabia.
LIST OF THE BENOIS-2011 NOMINEES.
CHOREOGRAPHERS
CIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI/DAMIEN JALET — BABEL, Divers music, Eastman (Belgium).
JORMA ELO — A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, F. Mendelssohn, Vienna State Ballet; SLICE TO SHARP (new version), H. Biber, A. Vivaldi, Stanislavsky Ballet Company (Moscow, Russia).
CRYSTAL PITE — PLOT POINT, B. Hermanns, Netherlands Dance Theatre.
ZHANG ZHENXIN — CLOSE YOUR EYES WHEN IT'S GETTING DARK, R. Ikeda, E. Serra, D. -E. Edwards, National Ballet of China.
BALLERINAS
BERNICE COPPIETERS — The title role in Scheherazade, N. Rimsky-Korsakov/J. -Ch. Maillot, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo.
LORENA FEIJOO — Kitri in Don Quixote. L. Minkus/M. Petipa, A. Gorsky (version of Jorge Texeira), Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami (USA).
EKATERINA KONDAUROVA — The title role in Anna Karenina, R. Schedrine/A. Ratmansky, Mariinsky Theatre.
ALEXANDRA LIASHENKO — The title role in Cinderella, S. Prokofiev/F. Ashton, Polish National Ballet.
MARIA YAKOVLEVA — Principal party in Rubies, I. Stravinsky/G. Balanchine, Vienna State Ballet.
ZHU YAN — the grown up girl in Outrenoire, J. Cage/J. Bubeniček, National Ballet of China.
DANCERS
VINCENT CHAILLET — O Zlozoni/O Composite, L. Anderson/T. Brown, Opera National de Paris.
DENIS CHEREVICHKO — The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, F. Shubert/W. Forsythe, Vienna State Ballet.
SEMION CHUDIN — Feb in Esmeralda, C. Pungi, R. Glière, S. Vasilenko/V. Burmeister; Slice to Sharp, H. Biber, A. Vivaldi/J. Elo; La Petite Morte, V. A. Mozart/J. Kilian, Stanislavsky Ballet Company (Moscow, Russia)
HAO BIN — the grown up boy in Outrenoire, J. Cage/J. Bubeniček, National Ballet of China.
FERNANDO ROMERO — Dante in Paseo por el Amor y la Muerte, J. Cage, T. Takemitsu, Y. Matsudaira, collage of cantaores clasicos antiguos/F. Romero, Theatre Lope de Vega (Sevilla, Spain).
ROLANDO SARABIA — Basilio, Don Quixote, L. Minkus/M. Petipa, A. Gorsky (version of Jorge Texeira), Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami (USA).
CÉDRIC YGNACE — Basilio, Don Quichot, L. Minkus/ M. Petipa, A. Gorsky (version of A. Ratmansky), Het National Ballet (Netherlands).
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