Jury

President of the Jury

Former soloist of the Vienna State OperaArtistic Director of the European Ballet Grand PrixBorn 1976 in Bratislava, Slovakia Education Dance Conservatory BratislavaDance Conservatory ViennaBallettschule der Wiener Staatsoper Engagements 1993 – 2005: Dancer of Ballett der Wiener Staatsoper2005 – 2006:Dancer of Ballett der Wiener Staatsoper und Volksopersince 2006 Guest Soloist Ballett der Wiener Staatsoper und Volksoper

Lukáš Timulak works in the fields of performing arts and film. As a dancer he has worked with Les Ballets de Monte Carlo and at Nederlands Dans Theater. He has choreographed for several companies around the world including NDT, Gothenburg Ballet, Balé da Cidade de São Paulo, National Theatre Brno, Royal Swedish Ballet, Staatsballett Hannover,

Anastasia Matvienko was born in Ukraine, where she studied and graduated from Kiev State Choreographic School and then became a soloist at the Kiev National Opera. The peak of her career is connected to the “Mecca of ballet” – St. Petersburg, Russia. For two years she was a primaballerina at the Mikhailovsky Theatre and since

Simona Noja-Nebyla is a former principal dancer She has been mainly engaged with Romanian State Opera Cluj-Napoca, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf-Duisburg, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Wiener Staatsoper. Her guesting career expands though from Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), Teatro Municipal (Santiago de Chile), Ballet de Cuba (Havanna) to Bolschoi Theater (Moskow), La Scala ( Milano),