Julio Bocca (Argentina)
Bocca began his studies under the tutelage of his mother Nancy Bocca. His professional career began in 1982, as a Principal Dancer with the Teresa Carreño Foundation in Venezuela, and the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. In 1985, he was awarded the Gold Medal at the 5th Moscow International Ballet Competition. He joined the American Ballet Theater in 1986, where he was Principal Dancer until 2006.
He performed as Guest Artist in the world's most important ballet companies, and partnered many leading dancers. He danced his farewell on December 22nd 2007 in Buenos Aires before an audience of nearly 300,000. In 2010 he was appointed Artistic Director of the BNS – SODRE National Ballet Company by Uruguayan President Mr. José Mujica.
Julio Bocca has been in jury of many competitions in Moscow, China, Korea, the Youth America Grand Prix, and President for Prix de Lausanne.
Tamas Detrich (US/Germany)
Tamas Detrich graduated from the John Cranko School in Stuttgart in 1977. In the same year he joined the Stuttgart Ballet where his technical and dramatic abilities were quickly rewarded. He was promoted to soloist in 1980 and Principal Dancer in 1981. During his 25 years with the company, he has danced all the leading roles of John Cranko's ballets and enraptured audiences around the world. In addition, he was highly esteemed as a guest dancer performed at major opera houses around the world, including the Bolshoi Theatre, Metropolitan Opera, and Paris Opera.
At the beginning of the 2001-02 season, he became a Ballet Master of the Stuttgart Ballet. In 2004 Artistic Director Reid Anderson appointed him Artistic Associate of the Stuttgart Ballet, in 2009 he was appointed Associate Artistic Director of the Stuttgart Ballet. In July 2015, the Board of Directors of the State Theater Stuttgart voted unanimously to appoint him Artistic Director of the Stuttgart Ballet as of September 2018.
Viviana Durante (Italy/UK)
Ms. Durante received her training and education at Royal Ballet School. After graduation, she continued her career as a ballet dancer at the Royal Ballet from 1984 to 2000 where she was promoted to the Principal in 1989. From 1990, she has been performing as Guest Artist in many world renowned ballet companies.
Her repertoire includes almost every classical ballet and many more modern and English-style art works. Artists like MacMillan, Wayne McGregor, Ashley Page, William Tuckett, David Bintley and Amedeo Amodio have all created roles for her in their pieces.
Ms. Durante was invited to be the teacher, coach, choreographer and jury member in many international competitions, such as 2011 and 2016 Prix de Lausanne, 2011 Ursula Moreton Choreographic Awards, 2016 Kenneth MacMillan Choreographic Award, etc.
Her awards and honours include 1984 Prix de Lausanne, 1990-2000 "Dancer of the Year" in the UK, Italy, Japan and Chile, Evening Standard Award and Time Out Awards.
Kang Sue-jin (South Korea)
Ms. Kang began her ballet training at the Académie de Danse Classique Princess Grace in 1985. During 1986 to 2016, Ms Kang danced in the Stuttgart Ballet where she was promoted to Principal Dancer in 1997. In 2007, she was appointed as "Kammertanzerin" (Royal Court Dancer) in Germany.
She has won many scholarships and awards since early years in South Korea and globally, including the 1985 Prix de Lausanne Scholarship, 1999 Prix Benois de La Danse Best Female Dancer, 1999 Order of Cultural Merit, BoGwan, Republic of Korea, 2007 John Cranko Association, John Cranko Award and so on.
Ms. Kang has been invited to be the jury of many competitions including 2005 and 2012 Prix de Lausanne and 2006 Seoul International Dance Competition.
In 2013, Ms. Kang was appointed the Honorary Ambassador of Pyeong Chang 2018 Olympic and was awarded as the Artistic Director of Korean National Ballet in 2014.
Uliana Lopatkina (Russia)
From the early age, Uliana was admitted to the Academy of Russian Ballet named after Vaganova where she studied from Galina Novitskaya and Natalia Dudinskaya. In 1991 Uliana joined Mariinsky Theatre Company.
In 1994 Uliana successfully made her debut as Odette/Odille in the Swan Lake in St. Petersburg. In 1995 Uliana was called the Principal Dancer of Mariinsky Theatre. Uliana danced many leading roles including Gieselle, Le Corsaire, La Bayadère and The Fountain of Bakhchisarai. She has also performed many ballets of Balanchine, Petit, Forsythe, Van Manen and others. Uliana danced at the most famous theatres of the world. Among them are the Bolshoy theatre, Royal Opera House, Grand Opera de Paris, La Scala, and Metropolitan Opera.
Her achevements include Honoured Artist of Russia (2000), People's Artist of Russia (2006). In 1997 Uliana won the Golden Mask and Benois de la Dance. In 2010 Uliana performed at the closing ceremony of the Olympics at Vancouver (Canada).
Alexandre Riabko (Ukraine/Germany)
Mr. Riabko recieved his early ballet education at Kiev Ballet School in Ukraine and was then admitted into The School of the Hamburg Ballet. He has been dancing with the Hamburg Ballet since 1996. He was promoted to Principal in 2001.
His repertoire includes A Midsummer Night's Dream, VIVALDI or What You Will, The Nutcracker, Illusions - like Swan Lake, Nijinsky, Giselle, The Saga of King Arthur, Sylvia, Lady of the Camellias and many other classical and contemporary ballets.
During his career, he has been dancing as guest dancer in Dresden, Dusseldorf, Munich, Japan, Vienna, etc. He was a guest with Alina Cojocaru in galas in London and Tokyo, with TAN Yuanyuan in San Francisco. He danced Nijnsky as a guest in Nijinsky with the National Ballet of Canada in Toronto.
Awards include Finalist of the Prix de Lausanne, Les étoiles de Ballet 2000 Dance Award, Premio Roma 2014, and Benois de la Danse 2016.
Christopher Stowell (US/Canada)
Assistant Artistic Director at National Ballet of Canada
In 1985, he joined San Francisco Ballet where he danced for 16 years, appearing in theatres throughout the world including Paris Opéra, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center and Bolshoi Theatre. Mr. Stowell performed leading roles in Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and Othello, and had roles created for him by Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson and other contemporary choreographers. Mr. Stowell appeared in almost every Balanchine ballet performed by San Francisco Ballet.
He has created new works for San Francisco Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, as well as the New York City Ballet Choreographic Institute. He has also staged the works of George Balanchine, Mark Morris and Christopher Wheeldon.
In 2003, Mr Stowell became Oregon Ballet Theatre's second Artistic Director. He held the position until 2012 and has recently been freelancing as a choreographer, ballet master and teacher in the US, Europe and Asia as well working for the Balanchine Trust.
Shinobu Takita (Japan)
Ms. Takita is Honoured Artist of Ukraine. She received her education at Moscow Academic Choreography School from 1988 to 1993 and at Moscow State Academy of Choreography from 2003 to 2008. Since 1993 she performed at Taras Shevchenko National Opera of Ukraine and danced as a leading soloist for more than 20 years.
In 2016, she left Kiev Ballet and moved her base of activity to Tokyo, started teaching Tokyo Ballet and Tokyo Ballet School from 2017. During her early career, she has participated in many international competitions including the Serge Lifar International Ballet Competition held in Kiev, Ukraine in 1996, where she won the 3rd Prize and the Rudolf Nureyev International Ballet Competition held in Budapest, Hungary in 1998 in which she was given a diploma.
In 2008, she won the Award For of achievements in the development of culture and arts Other in Ukraine.
ZHANG Dandan (China)
Artistic Director at Guangzhou Ballet
From 1979 to 1994, Ms. ZHANG has danced with The National Ballet of China where she performed major roles in almost all of the company's repertoire. She has won awards on her performance from Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China.
Since 1994, Ms. ZHANG has been the Director and Artistic Director of Guangzhou Ballet in China. She has also been the headmaster of Guangzhou Art School from 2002 and Director of the Music and Dance College of Guangzhou University from 2005 to 2007.
Guangzhou Ballet now has 19 full-length repertoire and more than 70 Chinese and Western traditional and contemporary medium-sized pieces. The company has toured in Russia, Canada, the US, Australia, Germany and other countries as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan. There are more than 90 awards the company has won domestically and more than 50 globally.
Sergey Yurevitch Filin （Russia）
Director of Young Choreographers Programme of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia
Former Artistic Director of ballet of the Bolshoi Theatre
People’s Artist of Russia (2001)
Filin joined the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre in 1988. As a famous premier of the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet and an international ballet star, Sergey Filin has been a high example of classical romantic dance, representing one of the best chapters in the history of the Bolshoi Ballet. Filin is also the first artistic director who has opened the doors of the Bolshoi to the foreign talent. Within his artistic leadership, the Bolshoi Ballet has considerably enriched its repertoire with the classics of the Western ballet and the most advanced contemporary choreography.
Filin has been a member of the jury of international ballet contests including “Benois de la Danse”, 1st Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition, Youth America Grand Prix, and Tanz Olymp Berlin.
David Bintley (Britain)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Director Birmingham Royal Ballet
Born on September 17, 1957, Mr. Bintley studied at The Royal Ballet School in the UK from 1974 to 1976, and served as the principal dancer and resident choreographer at the Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet from 1976 to 1986.
From 1986 to 1992, he worked as the Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet and has been the director of Birmingham Royal Ballet since 1995. From 2010 to 2014, he was the Director National Ballet of Japan.
As an outstanding choreographer, he has created many famous pieces, from The Outsider (1978), The Swan of Tuonela (1982), The Snow Queen (1984), ‘Still Life’ at the Penguin Cafe (1988) to the most recent The King Dances (2015) and The Tempest (2016), to name but a few.
He has also won numerous awards including London Evening Standard Award for Dance (1984), National Dance Awards (2000, 2011) and South Bank Show Award (2010).
GAO Du (China)
Professor & Director of the Academic Committee, Beijing Dance Academy
Principal Expert at the Folk Dance Culture Research Foundation
From 1980, he began his study at Beijing Dance Academy, majored in Chinese Folk Dance. He was the Deputy Director and Director of the Department of Chinese Folk Dance from 1992 to 2015.
He has been involved in compiling the series of the book Chinese Folk Dance and Pedagogy and has published thesis like Critics on Contemporary Education of Folk Dance. He has also choreographed and directed dance dramas like Sunrise, Shangri-la, Red River Valley, The Story of City-building, etc.
He attended in many international academic exchange programmes. Pieces instructed by Mr. GAO has won numerous prizes in Chinese dance competitions such as the Taoli Cup and Chinese Dance Competition. He has been invited to be jury members in those competitions as well as the Korean International Dance Competitions and Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition.
Marcelo Gomes (Brazil/US)
A native of Brazil, he began his dance studies at the age of 5 in Rio de Janeiro.
Upon winning the Revelation Prize at the Festival of Dance in Joinville in 1993, he traveled to the United States to continue his training. Later in Cuba, he studied under Alicia Alonso.
He joined American Ballet Theatre in 1997, and was promoted to Principal Dancer in 2002. He has performed in virtually every full-length classical ballet in the company's repertoire.
Mr. Gomes has worked with many great choreographers, and has been a guest artist with many international renowned ballets. He was the recipient of the prestigious Benois de la Dance in Moscow in 2008.
As a choreographer, his ballet Apotheose, created for Julie Kent and Roberto Bolle, had its premiere on the opening night of American Ballet Theatre's Metropolitan Opera House engagement in 2013. His most recent work, After Effect entered the repertoire of ABT in 2015.
Fang-Yi Sheu (Taiwan, China)
Ms. Sheu was the Principal Dancer of the Martha Graham Dance Company and was praised as the finest present-day embodiment of Martha Graham’s technique and tradition. Her excellent dance career has received numerous awards. Ballettanz magazine awarded her with the name of Outstanding Female Dancer in 2008.
In 2011, she founded Fang-Yi Sheu & Artists. She has collaborated with brilliant artists including Riccardo Muti, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Eliot Feld, Akram Khan, Christopher Wheeldon, Russell Maliphant, SHEN Wei, Lin Hwai-Min, dancers like Wendy Whelan, Alessandra Ferri, Herman Cornejo, TAN Yuanyuan and many more.
Since 2015, Ms Sheu has initiated the Creative Week to provide a new stage for the young artists from all over the world and encourage them to create and perform. In 2008, she published her autobiography I'm Not Afraid of My World is Different and Follow My Heart's Arrangement in 2015.
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