Armenian ballet dancer Avetik Karapetyan takes second place in Helsinki International Ballet CompetitionJune 13, 2009 - 18:18 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian ballet dancer Avetik Karapetyan won the second place in the sixth Helsinki International Ballet Competition. The final round of the competition was held on June 10, and Avetik Karapetyan was awarded 6000 euro. Avetik Karapetyan was born in 1985 in Yerevan, he studied 8 years in the State Choreographic University of Armenia. Currently he lives in Sweden. 21-year-old dancer from China won Gloria Grand Prix. Marco Geok, ballet master of Arman Zazeyan, the second Armenian participant, has also been awarded a prize. The first Helsinki International Ballet Competition has carried out since 1984. One hundred dancers accepted to the competition representing about 40 different countries. 29 dancers took part in the final round from Finland, China, South Korea and Belarus. Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |