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Wang Qimin, a 20-year-old Chinese coryphee, won the best woman
dancer award in the Moscow International Ballet Competition that
ended Monday in Moscow.
The best man dancer award was shared by Brazilian performer Suaresh
Binto Tiago and his Ukrainian colleague Leonid Sarafanov, while
Oksana Gutcheruk from the host state shared with Wang the top woman
prize.
Another Chinese dancer Han Po, who partnered Wang in all three
rounds of the 12-day contest, acquired the bronze award of man dancer.
"I am so pleased for winning the great prize. It is really
out of my expectation," Wang, who looks tender and always speaks
in low voice, told Xinhua shortly before Monday's awarding ceremony
held in the famous Bolshi Theater.
Her choreographer Wang Caijun, however, said he had been fully
confident that his students would achieve good scores in the competition
before their arrival here to attend the event, which is held annually
and deemed as one of the four most important ballet contests in
the world.
"We got gold prize in last year's competition and I believe
our youths are among top ballet dancers in the world," he said.
More than 200 ballet dancers from 19 countries, including Russia,
Ukraine, China, Brazil, Japan and the U.S., attended the competition,
the ninth of its kind.
(Xinhua 06/19/2001)
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