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Press Release by The Apogee Foundation in Volunteer
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The Apogee Foundation Awards Prizes and Grants to World Class Performing Artists in Russia
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2005-06-07, The Apogee Foundation - Apogee has awarded four of its most prestigious Premiere Awards to artists, instructors and directors in the former Soviet Union as part of its ongoing mission of promoting excellence in the performing arts.New York (PRWEB) June 7, 2005 -- The Apogee Foundation has awarded four Premiere Awards to outstanding performing arts professionals in Russia. The Foundation’s Premiere Awards program is designed to foster the development of human excellence in the performing arts by recognizing and supporting the accomplishments of students and professionals who achieve world class distinction. The granting of these rigorously judged, merit-based awards demonstrates the Foundation’s unyielding commitment to the great artistic traditions of Eastern Europe which are carried on and represented by their recipients. For detailed information regarding Apogee’s Premiere Award program, please refer to the Foundation’s website:
http://www.apogeefoundation.org/awards/premiere_awards.php
The four Premiere Awards just distributed by Apogee’s Central FSU Bureau include two Rising Star Prizes and two Achievement Awards. The Foundation`s Rising Star Prize is available to performing artists demonstrating extraordinary ability and artistic distinction early in their professional life, whereas Achievement Awards are available to leading instructors and directors who have consistently realized the potential of world class performing artists over the course of their careers.
Apogee`s two Rising Star Prizes went to Boris Myasnikov and Alexander Shpak. Myasnikov, who also received a Rising Star Prize in 2004 as well as two Excellence Prizes from the Foundation for excellence in studies and outstanding promise as a performing artist during the 1999/2000 and 2000/2001 academic years, was selected on the basis of his designation by the Perm State Ballet School as Perm’s top 2004 graduate as well as his record of success in winning major competitions in both Russia and Austria, as well as his ongoing success in performances with the Stanislavsky Ballet in Moscow and around the world. Shpak was selected on the basis of his designation by the Perm faculty as Perm`s top 2005 graduate as well as his record of success in winning major competitions in both Russia and Germany during the preceding year.
Simultaneously with these prizes to Myasnikov and Shpak, the Foundation bestowed a special version of its Achievement Award upon their instructor: Mr. Yuri Sidorov. Entitled the Yoel Plakht Honorarium for Excellence in Teaching, this award is named in honour of one of Russia’s most legendary dance instructors, Yoel Plakht, who taught for over 20 years at the Perm School and served as its Artistic Director for nearly a decade. Sidorov, one of Plakht’s many students who have become leading instructors throughout Russia and around the world, was nominated for this award by the faculty of the School and ratified by Apogee’s expert jury in recognition of his success in carrying on Plakht’s legacy as the preeminent male instructor in central Russia, as evidenced by his students` consistent achievement of world class excellence.
In addition to the awards provided to Mr. Sidorov and his former students, Apogee also announced its selection of Evgeny Subbotin to receive the Foundation`s Sergei Diaghilev Award for Outstanding Service to the Performing Arts. Subbotin is President of the Arabesque Society and Founder of the prestigious Perm International Ballet Competition, which under his leadership have become the most important organizations and events of their kind in the central and eastern regions of the former USSR.
The Foundation’s Diaghilev Award is named in honour of Russia’s supreme performing arts impresario: Sergei Diaghilev, who spent his formative years in Perm. Diaghilev transformed the history of the performing arts through his introduction of dancers such as Pavlova and Nijinsky to the world along with ground breaking choreographers such as Fokine and Nijinsky as well as composers such as Stravinsky. Apogee’s jury of specialists determined that Mr. Subbotin’s work in the course of his career exemplified both Diaghilev’s historic legacy as well as the Foundation’s ongoing mission of achieving the potential of human excellence in the performing arts.
Commenting on these awards, Apogee President Kenneth Schneider issued the following statement: “We are privileged on behalf of the global community to recognize and honor such superlatively accomplished individuals and their ongoing contributions to the performing arts. Each of these distinguished professionals evidences the continuingly awesome potential of traditions which in many ways are unmatched in the history of the world. In doing so, they are realizing the apogee of human excellence which our Foundation seeks to promote and foster.”
Information regarding Apogee’s mission and work in the former Soviet Union and around the world can be found on the Foundation’s website:
http://www.apogeefoundation.org/
as can further information about the Perm State Ballet School, the top training institution of its kind in the central and eastern FSU:
http://www.apogeefoundation.org/programs/existing_institutions.php
About the Apogee Foundation:
The Apogee Foundation began activities in Russia in 1997 and was incorporated in the United States in 2004 as a New York based not-for-profit corporation. Apogee is dedicated to the development of human excellence in the performing arts. It supports cultural institutions and individual artists, providing administrative, promotional, and financial support to help talented individuals achieve their full potential, and enabling this potential to be showcased to the world.
Contact:
The Apogee Foundation
Kenneth Schneider, President
1001 Avenue of the Americas, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10018-5411 (USA)
+1.646.722.0247 or +1.888.APOGEE.8
Fax: +1.646.292.5101
www.ApogeeFoundation.org
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