Honoree
Violette Verdy
Repertory
Round I: La Fille Mal Gardée Pas de Deux, staged by Winthrop Corey
Round II: A Choreographic Offering, staged by Roxane D’Orleans Juste
Round III: Satanella Pas de Deux from Carnival in Venice, staged by Valentina Kozlova
Master of Ceremonies
Adriana Santini
Teachers and Coaches
Winthrop Corey, Roxanne D’Orleans Juste, Valentina Kozlova, Deborah Wingert, Héctor Zaraspe
Judges
Victoria Morgan (Chair of the Jury), Maria Eugenia Barrios, André Lewis, Xin Lili, Dame Merle Park, Alexei Ratmansky, Hans van Manen, Victor Ullate, Stanton Welch
Medalists
WOMEN
Christine Rocas (Philippines), Silver Medal and Arpino Award
Hanae Seki (Japan), Bronze Medal
MEN
Joseph Gatti (USA), Gold Medal
Daniel Sarabia (Cuba), Silver Medal
Altan Dugaraa (Mongolia), Bronze Medal
The first Arpino Award was presented to Ms. Christine Rocas from the Philippines. Prior to joining The Joffrey Ballet, Ms. Rocas danced with Ballet Manila and won several other prestigious awards around the world.
Ashley Wheater, Artistic Director of The Joffrey Ballet, gave the Arpino Award in 2009 to bronze medalist Ricardo Santos from Brazil (first male dancer to receive the award).
Other prestigious NYIBC Alumni who [have] dance[d] with Joffrey are:
Temur Suluashvilli (Republic of Georgia), Oğulcan Borova (Turkey), Valerie Robin (USA), Abigail Simon (USA), Emily Patterson (USA), Amber Neumann (USA) and John Mark Giragosian (USA).