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Golden Pointe Shoes 2021

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XIV Internaional Ballet Competition Golden Pointe Shoes 2021 Online

Are you graduating from ballet school this year? Do you love dance and dream of an international stage career? Take part in the most spectacular and prestigious ballet event in the world. Become a contestant and create a breathtaking story with the impressive language of dance...

 

Swan lake pas de deux from 3rd Act 

Online ballet gala of the Golden Pointe Shoes 2021 

Violetta Keller & Michal Krcmar

 

The event is meant for ballet school graduates from around the world. They'll fight for the title of the best dancer and for the main prize of €5000.
The ambassadors of the competition are Shoko Nakamura and Wieslaw Dudek, while the members of the jury team will be Olympia Estrella, Michal Krcmar, Vladimir Issaev and others.
The XIVth edition will end within 18-20 June. These amazing ballet shows will be available on a streaming platform.

 

 

Organization

The Organizer of The Competition is The Ballet Foundation (Fundacja Balet) from Poland, which undertakes initiatives and multidirectional activities promoting ballet and other stage arts for nearly 30 years, including patronizing, supporting and granting impresario services.

The Foundation's achievements consist of granting numerous artistic scholarships in the fields of ballet and music, organizing concerts, dance shows and courses. It has also awarded several dozens of ballet competitions' winners, including the winners of the Golden Pointe Shoes and Ballet Stars Gala, which is the finale of the competition. Among the invited guest You can meet Jennifer Rivera Lara — the soloist of Grand Theatre Poznań, born in Mexico, Marcin Krajewski — international soloist, Kaori Fukui and Jun Tanabe — the dancers of Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida, Mary Carmen Catoya — the soloist of Miami City Ballet, coming from Chile Hernan Montenegro and talented brothers, Marcin Kupiński — the first principal dancer of The Royal Danish Ballet and Dawid Kupński — first soloist of The Royal Swedish Ballet.

The Idea

The Idea of the competition is to present and promote art created by ballet students from all around the world and, above all, to help them at the beginning of their professional careers. The Golden Pointe Shoes is not only a great opportunity to become known among critics and a wider audience, but it's also a chance to fight for an amazing prize of € 5,000!

The Golden Pointe Shoes is one of a few international competitions dedicated to ballet school graduates. It's very popular in the ballet community in Poland and abroad. In the beginning, it was meant only for Polish ballet school graduates, but since 2008 students from all around the world can participate in it.