Eric Underwood

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Eric Underwood Soloist of the Royal Ballet Covent Garden Dance Open: 2014, 2015

Born in Washington D. C. Trained at the School of American Ballet, New York, where he was awarded the Philip Morris Foundation Scholarship. He joined the Dance Theater of Harlem in 2000, promoted to Soloist, 2001, and then joined ABT in 2003. His repertoire included Von Rothbart, High Brahmin, Officer (Cinderella), Gaoler and Gentleman (Manon), Apollo (Sylvia) and roles in The Four Temperaments, Agon, Work Within Work and In the Upper Room. He joined The Royal Ballet in 2006; his repertoire includes Mrs Pettitoes, Gaoler (Manon), Consort to the Queen of Fire (Homage to The Queen), Zebra («Still Life» at the Penguin Café) and Tryst. He created roles in Chroma, Infra, Acis and Galatea (Royal Opera), DGV: Danse à grande vitesse, Electric Counterpoint, Seven Deadly Sins, Live Fire Exercise, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Aeternum.

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Cédric Ygnace

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Cédric Ygnace Principal Dancer of the Dutch National Ballet Dance Open: 2011

Cédric Ygnace graduated from the Académie de danse classique Princesse Grace de Monaco de Marika Besobrasova on «The John Gilpin Scholarship». In 1996–1998 danced with Les Ballets de Monté-Carlo, from 1998 — dances with the Dutch National Ballet. Prize-winner at international competitions.

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Miguel Angel Corbacho

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Miguel Angel Corbacho Soloist of Ballet Nacional de España Dance Open: 2012, 2014

He started professional dancing when he was 16. In 1999 joined the company of Andalusia Dance Center under the direction of Jose Antonio. In 2004 he joined the National Ballet of Spain. In 2008 he won the 1st prize for «Best Choreography» and award for «Music Composition» of the Choreography Competition in Madrid. He improves his flamenco technique at the studios of the National Ballet of Spain. Since 2012 - he is a Principal Dancer of the National Ballet of Spain, and also a director of the Entredos Ballet Español that he founded together with Elena Algado.

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Anastasia Yatsenko

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Anastasia Yatsenko Merited Artist of the Russian Federation the Bolshoi Theater of Russia Dance Open: 2005

Born in Moscow. In 1991, on completing her studies at the Moscow College of Choreography (today the Moscow Academy of Choreography), where she was a pupil of Sophia Golovkina, she joined the Bolshoi Ballet Company. In 1996, she won the 1st prize at the Arabesque Open Competition of Ballet Dancers of Russia, in Perm, and the 2nd prize at the Maya International Competition of Ballet Dancers, in Saint-Petersburg. In 2002, she was awarded the title Merited Artist of the Russian Federation.

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Maria Eichwald

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Maria Eichwald Principal Dancer with the Stuttgart Ballet Dance Open: 2009, 2012Dance Open Award: Miss Expressivity 2012

After graduation the National Ballet School in Alma-Ata she joined the National Ballet of Kazakhstan where she was soon promoted to Principal Dancer. In 1994 she moved to Germany and danced in the Theatre Krefeld-Mönchengladbach and later until 1996 as Soloist. In 1996 she joined the Bavarian State Ballet Munich as Soloist. In 1999 she was promoted to Principal Dancer. With the Bavarian State Ballet Maria Eichwald guested all around the world. In the season 2000/01 she was invited to dance with the Cuban National Ballet. In 2004 Maria Eichwald joined the Stuttgart Ballet as Principal Dancer.

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