Rainbow – folk festival

They take the form of performances with or without public. After the friendly concerts there is a discussion of the program of each group in a friendly and relaxed manner separately with each group.

In each category, the winner is determined by category. Winners are invited to attend for the top prize. The jury have the right to invite other teams to this competition. The winners will receive grants from the International Youth Forum – to participate in grant festivals 2020/2021 “World of Youth” on Costa and MSC cruise ships or festivals in Disneyland: Grand Prix: 2500 Eur 1st place: 1500 Eur 2 place: 700 Eur 3rd place: 500 Eur Program: two works for free choice, which were or were not represented in the competition program. Works must be approved in advance by the artistic committee. Duration: maximum 6 minutes.

• For the gala concert selected the best works of each team.
• The number of selected works determines by the jury.
• Rehearsal of joint finals is mandatory.
• All interested groups are invited to participate in this event.
• The program of Gala concert is organized by festival committee.

Additional master classes are ordered by the group at their discretion at extra charge. We offer you one of the best choreographers of our region: Miroslav Peshikov – People’s Artist of the Czech Republic, Prima Ballerina of the most famous world stages: the Paris Opera, the Vienna Opera, the Prague National Theater, the Bolshoi Theater of Moscow. Since October 2009, Member of the Board of the International Youth Forum.

Stanislav Belyaevsky – He was educated in ballet at the Academy of Ballet. Vaganova in St. Petersburg. From 1995 to 1997 he was the main dancer at the Mariinsky Theater. From 1997 to 2000 he was a soloist at Staatsoper in Berlin. From 2000 to 2015, Stanislav Belyaevsky was the main dancer of the Finnish national ballet in Helsinki, Finland. Since 2007, he has also worked as a teacher at the Finnish National Ballet School and the Helsinki Dance Institute. From September 2015 – professional ballet teacher at the Royal Ballet School in Winnipeg, Canada. 2017-2018 – Assistant to the artistic director and professional ballet teacher at the Kirov Ballet Academy in Washington, DC, USA.

Petr Zuska – Dancer, choreographer, artistic director of the ballet of the National Theater in Prague. From 1990 to 2016 he staged choreographic projects for: Hamburg Ballet, Ballet Augsburg, Sempeper in Dresden, Latvian National Opera in Riga, Mariinsky Theater, Royal Danish Ballet, Western Australian Ballet, Boston Ballet, etc.

Shimon Kuban – dancer, choreographer, teacher. In 2012 he founded the dance company “Sandalfon”. Winning choreographic competition in Bytom (Poland). Since 2015 she has been dancing in the ballet “Mermaid” at the National Theater of Prague. Director of choreography at Junior Eurovision 2018 in Minsk.

Katerina Rodionova – Honored Artist of Ukraine. She performed the main roles in the Kiev Opera Theater in the ballets: Swan Lake, Giselle, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping Beauty. Today Katerina is a teacher at the Prague Dance Conservatory, director of festivals of the International Youth Forum.

Sergey Skalikov – graduated from the Academy of Arts in Moscow. He has many years of experience in the dance area. In 2002 he began working in the South Bohemian Theater as a choreographer and choreographer. In 2005, he opened a ballet school in the city of Cheske Budejovice.

Leona Kvasnitsova – danced in the Uno group, later founded her own IF group, and then opened her own studio called Dancehouse in Prague. She choreographed for Excalibur and Galileo musicals, as well as several TV shows (for example, the Czech Republic is looking for Superstar or StarDance third season).

The festival organizers can prepare an invitation for the time of the event and assure your list of participants only after you fulfill the following conditions:

• You have successfully registered for the event and transferred the registration fee to the International Youth Forum (IYF) account
• You have booked a package and received confirmation
• You have sent us a full list of participants (in electronic form)

Please send the list only once and try not to make any further changes in it, because this may delay visa processing. As a reserve, we recommend adding 3-4 participants to the list in case someone from the participants of the main list refuses to travel. Immediately after you have fulfilled all the conditions, we will send you an invitation along with a certified list of participants by e-mail, if necessary send the original documents – by air mail directly to the name of your representative. He must personally apply to the embassy. Please note that if you fulfill these conditions too late, we will have to send the original invitation by express mail, which would entail additional costs (approximately EUR 100 – 300). List of participants, you can send us an e-mail to the address: info@praha-cz.net and festival@praha-cz.net

Dear friends, since visa processing usually lasts a long time, we ask you to do this as early as possible. After all, it is in your interest! In case of late submission of documents for registration, you risk getting a visa refusal! Please contact the embassy of the country conducting the competition in order to obtain more detailed information on the restrictions and rules for submitting documents that apply to you! We also ask you to remember that you may need transit visas, depending on the country where the event is held. If you still do not have a valid passport, please issue it as soon as possible! Some countries may require an invitation to obtain a visa, and a certified list of participants of the International Youth Forum (IYF) may provide you with these documents. We can not take responsibility for processing and issuing visas. Despite this, we will be happy to support you.

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