Sarah Lamb
Principal Dancer of the Royal Ballet Covent Garden
Dance Open: 2015
Born in Boston where she trained with Madame Tatiana Nicolaevna Legat at the Boston Ballet School. Laureate of the Presidential Scholars Program in the field of arts, she was awarded a Gold Medal by the President Bill Clinton. In 1998 she joined Boston Ballet, where she later became a Principal Dancer and danced all the lead parts in ballets by contemporary choreographers such as William Forsythe, David Dawson, Jorma Elo and others. After joining the Royal Ballet in 2004, she has added to her repertoire all major roles from classical repertoire — Aurora, Giselle, Nikiya, Kitri, Juliet, Manon, and also parts in Balanchine ballets. She has been sought after by many choreographers, she worked with both Christopher Wheeldon and Wayne McGregor extensively. McGregor even created his first full-length ballet Raven Girl on Sarah.
Ulyana Lopatkina
Principal Dancer of the Mariinsky Theater
People’s Artist of Russia
Dance Open: 2013
Having graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (famous class of N. Dudinskaya), she joined the Mariinsky Theater in 1991, and in 1994 she won a Golden Sophit Award for the best debut in St. Petersburg. In her repertoire there are leading roles in almost 30 performances, she is equally good in the choreographies of Petipa, Balanchine, and Forsythe. She danced solo parts at the best venues all over the world: from Paris and London to New York and Tokyo. People’s artist of Russia, laureate of numerous international awards, including State Prize of the Russian Federation.
Vyacheslav Lopatin
Leading Soloist with the Bolshoi Theater of Russia Honoured artist of Northern Ossetia-Alania
Dance Open: 2017,2019
He graduated from the Voronezh State College of Choreography. Before joining the Bolshoi Ballet in 2003 he took a study course at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy of Choreography.
Vyacheslav, apart from possessing a huge technical potential, is also a wonderful character artist who is capable of performing the most complicated, ambiguous and diverse parties. At the premiere of A Hero of Our Time, one of the biggest recent projects of Bolshoi, his Old Woman/Yanko character was named among the most interesting roles in the production. In Hamlet by Donnelan Lopatin danced Yorick, a key figure for Shakespeare. His Modest Alexeyevich in Anyuta is absolutely different — practical, cold and “buttoned up”.
His repertoire also includes the Bronze Idol (La Bayadère by Petipa/Grigorovich), James (Bournonville/Kobborg), Jerome (The Flames of Paris by A. Ratmansky/V. Vainonen), Mercutio (Romeo and Juliet by Y. Grigorovich), Lucien (Illusions perdues by A. Ratmansky) and other parties.
He won the 2nd prize at the Arabesque Open Competition, Special Jury Prize at the Golden Mask for the best duet (in La Sylphide with Natalia Osipova) and many other awards.
Jordan-Elizabeth Long
Soloist of the Dutch National Ballet
Dance Open: 2010
She was born in Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A., where she began her ballet training locally at the Southwest Virginia Ballet. At age 12, she was named an American Ballet Theatre National Training Scholar. She completed her training in Florida under Cuban master teacher Magaly Suarez. At age 17, she made her debut with the Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami. She has regularly appeared in galas such as the Miami International Ballet Festival and the Gala de las Estrellas de la Danza Mundial in the Dominican Republic. In 2007, she was a finalist in the International Ballet Competition in Shanghai, China, and in 2009, she was awarded the gold medal at the World Ballet Competition in Orlando, USA.
Martin and Facundo Lombard were born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They started dancing at the age of 7, inspired by Michael Jackson, and at the age of 13 succeeded enough to make their debut on Argentina’s most popular TV show Rhythm Of The Night.
Lombard Twins performed together with the The Godfather of Soul James Brown and The King of Latin Music Tito Puente, appeared on covers of several magazines, including The Vogue, in ad campaigns for Versus/Versace, photographed by Steven Meisel.
Their independent full length show Dreamers… If You Don't Have a Dream, You Don't Have a Life started their career and was followed by a series of successful projects, including Lombard Dance Piazzola. Their career in the cinema is as successful: many of their films were shown at prestigious cinema festivals around the world. Lombard Twins not only star in their movies, but script, direct and produce themselves.
Martin and Facundo Lombard gained international recognition for playing the Santiago Twins in the movies Step Up 3D and Step Up All In. They also appeared the promotional trailer of Men In Black 3 Men in Black 3 with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.
