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Earl Waldergrave’s Award
Earl Waldergrave’s Award, which was established in 2003 to encourage leading students of Vaganova Ballet Academy, was presented at the Mikhailovsky Theater on November 8, 2008.

Earl Waldergrave, famous British balletomane and patron of the arts has been supporting projects of the Russian Ballet Academy for the past five years. Thanks to his participation the Academy students got a chance to perform on stage at the London Royal Ballet School. The meeting with the artistic director of the Ballet Theater Farukh Ruzimatov and the famous dancer and choreographer Nikita Dolgushin, which was organized after the awards ceremony, was attended by more than thirty students of the Academy. They were also offered tea and taken on a tour around the theatre.

This year award winners are two Vaganova Ballet Academy students: Nikita Yaschenko and Natalia Liashenko.