Artistic Director of the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus, People’s Artist of the USSR (1985), Laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Belarus ((1996).

Valentin Elizariev’s artistic career is associated with the Belarusian choreography for more than forty years. He staged productions, which became an epoch in the development of the national choreographic art. Among them are Carmen Suite, The Creation of the World, Spartacus, Bolero, The Rite of Spring, Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote, Passions (Rogneda), The Firebird, The Sleeping Beauty. Now, he serves as Artistic Director of the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus, and professor of the Belarusian State Academy of Music.

Throughout his career, Valentin also staged productions on prestigious companies worldwide, such as the Kirov Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theatre, the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR, Warsaw Bolshoi Theatre, Tokyo NBA Theatre Ballet Company, the Cairo Opera House, etc.

Numerous prizes and titles were presented in honour of Valentin’s outstanding achievements in art, including special prize for the best choreography at the 7^th International Ballet Competition in Moscow, “Best Choreographer of the Year” and prize “Benois de la Danse” in Paris, “Honourary Citizien of the City of Minsk”, and many more.

Valentin Elizariev is the chairman of the jury of the International Festival of Modern Choreography in Vitebsk for many years. While he has been member of the jury for most of the major international ballet competitions.

Honoured person of CBE Medal, Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Born on September 17^th, 1957. From 1974 to 1976, Mr. Bintley studied at The Royal Ballet School in the UK 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 of 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).

Artist in Residence, American Ballet Theatre, former Artistic Director of Bolshoi Ballet.

Alexei Ratmansky was born in St. Petersburg and trained at the Bolshoi Ballet School in Moscow. His performing career included positions as principal dancer with Ukrainian National Ballet, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the Royal Danish Ballet. He has choreographed ballets for the Mariinsky Ballet, the Royal Danish Ballet, the Royal Swedish Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, The Australian Ballet, Kiev Ballet and the State Ballet of Georgia, as well as for Nina Ananiashvili, Diana Vishneva and Mikhail Baryshnikov.

His 1998 work, Dreams of Japan, earned a prestigious Golden Mask Award by the Theatre Union of Russia. He was made Knight of Dannebrog by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark in 2001. In 2005 and 2014, he was awarded the Benois de la Danse prize twice.

Ratmansky was named artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet in January 2004. Under Ratmansky’s direction, the Bolshoi Ballet was named “Best Foreign Company” in 2005 and 2007 by The Critics’ Circle in London, and he received a Critics’ Circle National Dance Award for The Bright Stream in 2006. In 2009, Ratmansky choreographed new dances for the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Aida. He joined American Ballet Theatre as Artist in Residence in January 2009. For American Ballet Theatre, Ratmansky choreographed On the Dnieper (2009), The Nutcracker (2010), Dumbarton (2011), Firebird and Symphony #9 (2012), The Sleeping Beauty (2015), Whipped Cream (2017), Harlequinade (2018), etc.

Choreographer, Multi-Disciplinary Experimental Artist.

An ethnic Tibetan born in Gansu, Sang studied at the Beijing Central University for Nationalities and was a dancer with Guangdong Modern Dance Company (GMDC) from 1993 to 1998. He was a dancer of City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) from 1999 to 2002. In 2002, SANG went to Germany to study choreography under William Forsythe and stayed with Ballett Frankfurt and the Forsythe Company as assistant choreographer and dancer. SANG returned to China in 2006. Since then, he has created a number of full-length works for dance companies –CCDC, Beijing’s LDTX and GMDC. Sang became Resident Choreographer of CCDC since 2015.

SANG’s work fuses architecture, multi-media, live sound effects, and visual arts; combines extremely intense physical movement and unique rhythm to create psychological tension and anisotropy. He has been commissioned by many leading dance companies, such as Ballett Frankfurt, Carte Blanche, Spellbound Contemporary Ballet, and Goteborgs Operans Danskompani.

SANG has taught workshops at Taipei National University of the Arts, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Beijing Dance Academy, and Fondazione Milano Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi.

His major works include Unspeakable, Sticks, As If To Nothing, Reflection of Others, Standing Before Darkness, Layer Code, Not Here, Not Ever , Pa|Ethos, Fragile Beauty, etc.

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.