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12 April 2024

International Finalists and Results

Watch the international finals results here:

Entries came in not only from the UK but also Canada, China, Ireland, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Spain, USA and Vietnam. Connecting and sharing online through this event has brought our global ballet community even closer together in our love and appreciation of this beautiful art form.

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We are grateful to Dansez for sponsoring the event with generous prizes for 1st placed International and UK winners, shipping included.

Grade 1 and 2  £50
Grade 3 and 4 £75
Grade 5 and 6  £100
Intermediate £150
Advanced 1 / 2  

£200

The heats were adjudicated by some of our most experienced Imperial Classical Ballet examiners, who spent an extremely busy and enjoyable few days watching and marking all the candidates, before the finals adjudicators, Faculty expert Donald Vleugels and Director of London Children’s Ballet, Ruth Brill, viewed the finalists’ videos and agreed the winners.

Congratulations to all who took part, especially the finalists and of course, the deserving winners. We very much appreciated your entries and thought the standard was very high.  We hope you enjoyed learning and performing the enchainements as much as we enjoyed watching them.

Grade 1/Class Examination 1 Winners

1st place Honoka Kosaka Lisa Johannsen-Sawamura Lisa Maria British Ballet Arts Japan
2nd place Tsumugi Matsui         Lisa Johannsen-Sawamura Lisa Maria British Ballet Arts Japan
3rd place Laura Power Alison Cronin Clonmel Dance Centre Ireland

Grade 2/Class Examination 2 Winners

1st place

Nanako Tsubokawa

Francesca Stern Dance1 Redondo Inc USA
2nd place Ka Ying Evelyn Ng Phei Chen Liew Arts of Dance Studio China
3rd place Si Leng Ho Lisa Johannsen-Sawamura Lisa Maria British Ballet Arts Japan

Grade 3/Class Examination 3 Winners  

1st place

Mia Kiss Barbosa

Sinead Murphy

Cork School of Dance

Ireland
2nd place Mayu Sakaki  Lisa Johannsen-Sawamura Lisa Maria British Ballet Arts Japan
3rd place Jana Gomez Montiel    Natalia Saltiel de la Pena Dance Center Mexico Mexico

Grade 4/Class Examination 4 Winners

1st place

Kassidy Brooks

Melanie Dance Pulse Dance Center Canada
2nd place Mila Melanson - Begin  Melanie Dance Pulse Dance Center Canada
3rd place Alyssa Morrissey  Alison Cronin Clonmel Dance Centre Ireland

Grade 5/Class Examination 5 Winners

1st place

Lok I Christy Sam

Phei Chen Liew Arts of Dance Studio Macau, China
2nd place Pei-Chieh Chuang Joanne Bond The Joanne Bond School of Classical Ballet

China

(UK online)

3rd place  Ilaria Longhi Marta Milesi Stendhart Italy

Grade 6/Class Examination 6-8/Intermediate Foundation Winners

1st place

Stella Pelaez

Melanie Dance Pulse Dance Center Canada
2nd place

Chloe Drew

Melanie Dance Pulse Dance Center Canada
3rd place

Lara Kawakita

Lisa Johannsen-Sawamura Lisa Maria British Ballet Arts Japan

Intermediate Winners

1st place

Kingsley Aguillen

Francesca Stern

Dance1 Redondo Inc

USA
2nd place Sofia Ines Quintas Torres Frida Yosif Escuela Profesional de Danza Coppelia Ballet Mexico
3rd place Èlia Morales Tess Buck The Classical Ballet School, Girona Spain

Advanced 1 and 2 Winners

1st place

Relinda Kozol

Tracy-Lea Bloch Ballet Bloch Canada
2nd place Quentin Sjostedt Tracy-Lea Bloch Ballet Bloch Canada
3rd place Julia Jacobson Tracy-Lea Bloch Ballet Bloch Canada

Our adjudicators

Ruth Brill

 Ruth Brill Headshot
 

Ruth is a freelance choreographer and Artistic Director.  She began her training in Kent in the Cecchetti Method, and then went on to Tring Park School for the Performing Arts and English National Ballet School. She danced with English National Ballet (2007-2012) and Birmingham Royal Ballet (2012-2019).

Ruth has created numerous commissions for Birmingham Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, New English Ballet Theatre and The Royal Ballet School, amongst others. Her dance film work includes Bodies, Chrysalis, Beneath Still Waters and Momenta. She has also created pieces for The Rugby World Cup Welcoming Ceremony, BBC Dance Passion and Heathrow Airport’s most recent Christmas Campaign. Ruth is passionate about creating narrative work and has also completed a course in Dramaturgy.

Ruth is the Artistic Director of London Children’s Ballet. She re-staged Cathy Marston’s production of Ballet Shoes (2019) and has since commissioned the creation of Anne Of Green Gables (2022), Snow White (2023) and Secret Garden (2024) for the company. Ruth has a strong interest in teaching and outreach work and has delivered development programmes internationally.

 

Donald Vleugels: FISTD, Dip RAD, PG Dip, ARAD

Donald Vleugels Headshot

Graduating from the Andrew Hardy School in 1980, Donald performed classics like La Sylphide, Napoli and Giselle in Hong Kong before joining Dublin City Ballet as a dancer in Nutcracker and Coppelia and choreographer for the company. He trained at the RAD teaching college and started ISTD training in 1997. He has been an examiner for 12 years.

Participating schools

Teacher School Country
Andrea Andraca de Granda Academia de Ballet San Angel Inn Mexico
Hillary Xi Le Tan Acts Dance Malaysia
Hiew Teck Hee Amare Dance Academy Malaysia
Carole Ann Watson Arte e Movimento Italy
Phei Chen Liew Arts of Dance Studio Macau, China
Suhaili Ahmad Kamil Aurora Dance School Malaysia
Tracy-Lea Bloch & Sophia Curalli Ballet Bloch Canada
Alison Cronin & Jessica Stokes Clonmel Dance Centre Ireland
Sinead Murphy Cork School of Dance Ireland
Francesca Stern Dance 1 Redondo Inc USA
Natalia Saltiel de la Pena Dance Center Mexico Mexico
Frida Yosif Escuela Profesional de Danza Coppelia Ballet Mexico
Tamzynn Williamson Fox King Dance Academy UK (online)
Neha Suhjani Les Danseuses Academy of Ballet India
Lisa Johannsen-Sawamura Lisa Maria British Ballet Arts Japan
Guillermina Rosales Sabbagh Mina Rosales Artes Escénicas Mexico
Melanie Dance, Kelly Douglas Pulse Dance Center Canada
Luu Thi Hoai Trang (Jenny Luu) SMPAA Vietnam
Marta Milesi Stendhart Italy
Elvira Buck, Tess Buck The Classical Ballet School, Girona Spain
Joanne Bond The Joanne Bond School of Classical Ballet China (UK online)

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