June 13, 2009 - 18:18 AMT
Armenian ballet dancer Avetik Karapetyan takes second place in Helsinki International Ballet Competition
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.