Armenian ballet dancer Avetik Karapetyan takes second place in
Helsinki International Ballet Competition
13.06.2009 17:18 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian ballet dancer Avetik Karapetyan won the
second place in the sixth Helsinki International Ballet
Competition. The final round of the competition was held on June 10,
and Avetik Karapetyan was awarded 6000 euro.
Avetik Karapetyan was born in 1985 in Yerevan, he studied 8 years in
the State Choreographic University of Armenia. Currently he lives in
Sweden.
21-year-old dancer from China won Gloria Grand Prix.
Marco Geok, ballet master of Arman Zazeyan, the second Armenian
participant, has also been awarded a prize.
The first Helsinki International Ballet Competition has carried out
since 1984. One hundred dancers accepted to the competition
representing about 40 different countries. 29 dancers took part in the
final round from Finland, China, South Korea and Belarus.