Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus
Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus
Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus
Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus
This year over 60 dancers from 20 countries participated in the competition. The jury was represented by Kenneth Greve, President of the Jury and Artistic Director of the Finnish National Ballet; Nina Ananiashvili, Artistic Director of the State Ballet of Georgia; Angel Corella, Artistic Director of Pennsylvania Ballet; Jorma Elo, choreographer; Maina Gielgud, Artistic Advisor of the Hungarian National Ballet, International Stager, Guest Teacher and Coach; Hae Shik Kim, Chairman of the Korean Youth Ballet Stars Competition and the Dean of the School of Dance at the Korean National University of Arts; Feng Ying, Artistic Director of the National Ballet of China.
Takatoshi Machiyama was born in Osaka, Japan. He graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in 2011 where he had studied under Boris Bregvadze. He joined the ballet company of the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus in 2011.
Apart from the aforementioned competition, Takatoshi Machiyama was a winner of the 4th International Istanbul Ballet Competition (2014), a competitor of the 12th edition of the Ekaterina Maximova Russian Open Ballet Competition Arabesque-2012, a winner of the International Ballet Competition in Hong Kong (2011).
His repertoire includes Drosselmeier, Japanese dance in The Nutcracker; Nurali in The Fountain of Bakhchisarai; the Bluebird in The Sleeping Beauty; the Fool, pas de trois in Swan Lake; Acteon in La Esmeralda; Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet; The Fool, the Black Man in Vytautas; Soloist in Sechs Tänze; Soloist in Flower Festival in Genzano; Manzar in Seven Beauties; Modest in Anyuta; Mengo in Laurencia; the title role in Le Petit Prince, etc.
We heartily congratulate Takatoshi Machiyama on the prize at the prestigious ballet competition and wish him new remarkable roles, inexhaustible inspiration and flights to new summits of creative work!
