Comment The importance of the Helsinki Ballet Competition as an international value competition will only be emphasized when Moscow is left behind the Iron Curtain

International the ballet competition requires a giant machinery from which the audience can only see the top of the iceberg.

In addition to the actual competition lots, the organization organizes daily rehearsals and theme lessons for the dancers, which of course require their teachers. The master classes are led by members of the jury Nina Ananiashvili and Julio Bocca.

In addition to more than ten officials, the competition organization includes teachers, rehearsal pianists and all technical staff. There are still more than fifty volunteers during the competitions.

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Machinery is the result of years of development. The first ballet competitions in Helsinki in 1984 were organized entirely with help. Involved in the arrangements Heidi Almi recalls that the officials did not have much time to sleep during the working period. Everyone did everything. The accompaniment of the dancers also posed problems.

“Some had their own pianist with them, but most only had reel tapes at technically varying levels. Finally, they had to be recorded in the studio on one tape, even with the changes the dancers wanted. ”

Of course, current recording and audio playback technology has brought relief to this problem.

Helsinki the competitions are among the top four in international ballet competitions in the world.

The current world political situation may change the situation as Moscow’s famous competition may drift into the isolation of the Iron Curtain.