Vladimir Malakhov
Principal Dancer and Artistic Director of the Staatsballett Berlin
Dance Open: 2009, 2012Dance Open Award: Outstanding contribution to the ballet art development 2012
Graduated from the Moscow Ballet School in 1986, then he danced at the Moscow Classical Ballet. In 1991 he signed the contracts with various ballet companies in the world, danced at the Stuttgart Ballet Theatre, in ABT (New York), at the Berlin State Opera, Vienna State Opera. Since 2002 he became an artistic director and principal dancer of ballet of the Berlin State Opera. Prize winner at the International Ballet Competition in Moscow (1989), International Ballet Competition in Paris (Grand Prix, 1989), «First World Male Dancer» Award in USA (1997) and many others. Member of the jury of the St.Petersburg International Ballet Award DANCE OPEN.
Steven McRae
Principal Dancer with the Royal Ballet of London
Dance Open: 2011Dance Open Award: Mister Expressivity 2011
Steven began dancing at the age of 7. Prize-winner at International Competitions. In 2003 Steven joined the Royal Ballet School and Graduated the following year. In 2004, Steven joined the Royal Ballet Company and was promoted through the ranks, reaching the rank of Principal in 2009, aged 23. Steven has toured numerous countries across the world including Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, USA, Cuba, Mexico and all through Europe.
Milan Madar
Second Soloist of the Semperoper Ballett Dresden
Dance Open: 2014
Born in Hungary. Trained with the Hungarian National Ballet Academy from 1996 to 2004, then joined the Hungarian National Ballet. Three years later joined the Dutch National Ballet, and in 2011 started with Semperoper Ballett Dresden. His repertoire includes parties in productions by John Neumeier, Rudi van Dantzig, Alexei Ratmansky, Natalia Makarova, George Balanchine, Harald Lander. Among the favorite roles: Diamond (Jewels by George Balanchine), Prince Sigfried (Swan Lake by Aaron Watkin), Prince (Nutcracker by Vasily Vainonen, then by Aaron Watkin), Paris (Romeo and Juliet by Rudi van Dantzig, then by Stijn Celis), Commendatore (Don Giovanni by Krysztof Pasztor). Milan is also the co-founder of Network Dance, a website designed for the dance community.
Vito Mazzeo
Principal Dancer of the Dutch National Ballet
Dance Open: 2016, 2019
Born in Vibo Valentia, Calabria (Italy), and trained at the La Scala Theatre Ballet School in Milan where he graduated with full marks in classical and contemporary, the only one in two hundred years history of the school.
He danced with The Royal Ballet, the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and San Francisco Ballet, where he joined as a soloist and was promoted to principal within six months. In 2013 he joined Het Nationale Ballet and the following year was nominated for “Audience Favourite” for his first year with Het.
Vito is the winner of the Prix Positano Léonide Massine 2010 and the Danza&Danza award as “Best dancer of the Year 2009”. He is a guest artist with Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, The Hong Kong Ballet, Finnish National Ballet and Arena di Verona.
During his 10 year career he created roles for Mark Morris, Wayne McGregor, David Dawson, Yuri Possokhov,Christopher Wheeldon, Jorma Elo, Hans Van Manen and Ashley Page in addiction to all the XIX repertoire learned from the Italian Ballet Star Carla Fracci.
During the Season 2014/15 he created a group of dancers from Het Nationale Ballet called “Vito Mazzeo & Solisti Het” to tour around Italy introducing for the first time Dutch National Repertoire to italian audience. In May 2015 he returned as a Guest Artist with the San Francisco Ballet to celebrate Yuan Yuan Tan 20 years career with SFB dancing Romeo & Juliet.
Malambo, a traditional Argentinian dance of courage and grace, requires a virtuoso technique and ideal sense of rhythm. Malevo dancers enrich it with other dance styles, from flamenco to hip-hop and turn it into the fireworks of energy flows. Here there is no vocal and not much music, here rules the rhythm. Like the blood pulsing in the veins, like the heart beating in the chest, this dance will make you live faster and brighter.
