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Link presents international award winning ballet
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Photo: Dottie
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| Alexei
Tyukov graduated
with honors from the Perm State Ballet
Academy in 1995 in his home city of
Perm, Russia. That same year, he joined
the Perm State Ballet, where he performed
lead roles in Swan Lake, Tango, Don
Quixote, Giselle, and The Nutcracker.
He toured extensively with the Perm
State Ballet Theatre throughout Austria,
Germany, Ireland, China, and Japan.
At the 1998 International Ballet Competition
Arabesque, Tyukov won first place in
the Senior Men’s Division and
was awarded “The Mikhail Arnopolskii
Prize” given to the most talented
participant of the competition. He joined
Ballet Internationale in 1999, and has
since received rave reviews for his
leading role performances in Phaedra,
The Nutcracker, The Creation of the
World, and A Thousand and One Nights.
In 2003 and 2004, Tyukov performed in
the international gala, Le Gala des
Etoiles, in Montreal. He also performed
in 2003 in the Stars of the 21st Century,
in Paris and participated in the Stars
of the Kirov in Germany in 2005. |
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| Chieko
Oiwa joined Ballet
Internationale in 1999. A native of Nagoya,
Japan, she is the recipient of many awards.
In 1996, she received first place in the Junior
Division of the Kobe Modern Dance Competition.
The following year Oiwa won the IBM Award
at the Asia Pacific International Ballet Competition.
In 1999, she was a semi-finalist at the Japan
International Ballet and Modern Competition
and in July 2000, Oiwa became a finalist at
the Varna International Ballet Competition.
Her repertoire includes leading roles in The
Nutcracker, Don Quixote, Swan Lake, La Bayadére,
Phaedra, Napoli, and A Thousand and One Nights.
She was invited to perform at the 2004 Le
Gala des Etoiles in Montreal, Canada. In 2005,
Oiwa performed at the Stars of the Kirov in
Germany and in a production of Stone Flower
in Japan. |
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| Ogulcan
Borova was born
in 1980, in Turkey where he was recognized
in 1996 as the First Prize Winner at the ''3rd
National Rotary Clubs Dance Competition"
in Turkey. He won the Bronze Medal at the
1998 "Varna International Ballet Competition"
in Bulgaria and recieved the award "Star
Dancer of Turkey" from the Dokuz Eylul
University of Izmir, where he was trained
by Shavkat Tursunov. He won the Gold Medal
at the "7th New York International Ballet
Competition" in 2003. During that same
year he was a guest artist in the "Korea
World Ballet Stars Gala" in Seoul. He
was also invited performing artist at The
21st Gala des Etoiles in Montreal '04, Vail
Internationale Dance Festival in Colorado
'04, 5th Gala de Esteralles in Venezuela '05
and the "Stars of Kirov Ballet Gala"
In Germany 05. He won the Gold Medal at the
"2nd Seoul International Dance Competition"
in Korea in 2005. He had many succesfull performances
while touring with Ballet Internationale to
China, Canada, Taiwan and many cities within
the USA. He worked with Eldar Aliev, Irina
Kolpakova, Sergei Brejnoi, Vladilen Semenov,
Tatiana Pali, Rinat Imaev. Dance Magazine
labeled Ogulcan as a "feisty, brilliant
dancer", Pointe Magazine presented him
as an "International star", The
New York Times said "powerful performance"
and The Montreal Gazette describes that "he
brought the house down". He was dancing
with Ballet Internationale Indianapolis(1999-2005),
which he joined in 1999 and was promoted to
principal in 2001. He has danced the leading
roles in the company's productions of Phadera,
Don Quixote, A Thousand and One Nights, Carmen,
La Fille Mal Gardee, Interzone, Creation of
the World, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Esmeralda,Dracula,
Copellia, Cinderella, Napoli, Fire Bird, Peter
Pan, Romeo and Juliet, Paquita, La Bayadere,
Satanila, Le Corsaire and The Nutcracker. |
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| A
native of the Ukraine, Irina
Komarenko is a 1992
graduate of the Alma-Ata Ballet Academy. Upon
graduation, she joined the world-renowned
Donetsk Ballet and danced leading roles in
Don Quixote, Giselle, La Bayadére and
others. At the 1995 International Festival
Stars of the World of Ballet, she received
“The Hope of Ukrainian Ballet”
diploma of recognition and in 1998, at the
same event, she was awarded the “High
Mastership” festival prize of recognition.
Komarenko has toured in Italy, France, Norway,
Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Canada, China and Switzerland.
In 1998, she was a Finalist in the USA International
Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi,
and in July of 2000 received an award for
being the best non-competing partner at Varna’s
International Ballet Competition in Bulgaria.
She joined Ballet Internationale in 1999,
and since then she has performed as Eve in
The Creation of the World, the Sugar Plum
Fairy in The Nutcracker, the Nurse in Phaedra,
Scheherazade in A Thousand and One Nights
and a Solo Variation in Napoli. |
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