Armenian ballet dancer Avetik Karapetyan takes second place in Helsinki International Ballet CompetitionJune 13, 2009 - 18:18 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - 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. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Russia provides info about arrested Armenian ex-MP Russian law enforcement agencies have provided information about the arrest of Tigran Urikhanyan. Lemkin Institue slams Pashinyan's “cryptic engagement with Genocide denial” The Lemkin Institute is alarmed over Pashinyan’s statements “questioning Armenia's legal basis to pursue justice against Turkey”. 41 detained as antigovernment protests continue in Yerevan 41 people were detained in Yerevan as people demanding Pashinian’s resignation stage campaigns of civil disobedience. Armenia votes for UN resolution granting Palestine new rights The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on May 10 to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine. |