Junior and Senior Ballet Awards 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.

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 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

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)