In November the best dancers from all around the world will gather in Krasnoyarsk, from 8 to12 of November in our city will take place the International competition of the ballet "Grand Prix of Siberia". He will pass within the IV International forum "Ballet XXI Century" devoted to the 125 anniversary since the birth of Sergey Prokofiev.

The I selection (correspondence) stage of the Competition has the day before come to the end, 38 dancers from Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine have succeeded to the II round. The Krasnoyarsk state opera and ballet theatre will be presented by soloists Elena Svinko, Yury Kudryavtsev, Georgy Bolsunovsky and Dmitry Dyachkov.

Reviews will undergo II and III rounds on the stage of the Krasnoyarsk state opera and ballet theatre. Representatives of the Russian and foreign ballet schools – performers, teachers, ballet masters, directors and artistic directors of theatres will estimate contestants:

The chairman of jury – the people's artist of the USSR Yury Grigorovich;

Bridget Lefebvre is the ex-director of the ballet of the Parisian Opera (France);

The people's artist of the USSR Vyacheslav Gordeev is the artistic director of the Moscow regional state theatre "Russian Ballet" (Russia);

The people's actress of Russia Marina Leonova is the rector of the Moscow state academy of choreography (Russia);

Mikko Nissinen is the artistic director of the Boston Ballet (USA);

The honored worker of the Republic Kazakhstan Tursynbek Nurkaliyev is the director of ballet troupe of the State opera and ballet theatre "Astana Opera" (Kazakhstan);

The honored actress of Russia Elena Andriyenko – the associate professor of choreography of choreographic faculty at the Russian university of theater (GITIS) (Russia);

The honored artist of Russia Sergey Bobrov is the artistic director of the Krasnoyarsk opera and ballet theater (Russia);

Andreys Zhagars – the actor, the director, the teacher of Department of direction and skill of the actor of musical theater at the Russian university of theatre (GITIS) (Latvia);

The honored actress of China Zhao Ruhen is the chairman of the union of choreographers of the People's Republic of China (China);

Sara-Nora Kristeva is the artistic director of the ballet of the Sofia opera and ballet theatre (Bulgaria);

Saadet Zeynep Sunal is choreographer, the artistic director of the International festival of the ballet in Bodrum (Turkey);

Roberto Dzhiovanardi is the director of "ATER" - Associations of theatres of the Area of Emilia-Romagna (Italy).

Names of winners of the competition will be announced on November 12 at the closing ceremony of the IV International forum "Ballet XXI Century". In the same evening on the stage will be held the big gala concert of winners of the competition.