Competitor profiles
The jury has reached the final decisions on Finnish and international competitors of the ballet competition. In addition to nine Finnish competitors selected from the Finnish Qualification Round of the HIBC 2012, 90 international dancers from 29 different countries have been invited to compete in Helsinki in May.
Juniors
Katia Almayeva, Russia
Sara Antikainen, Finland
Dingwen Ao, China
Sabrina Arrighi, Italy
Blair Bagley, USA
Ashley Baszto, USA
Hannah Bettes, USA
Nutsa Chekurashvili, Georgia
Stephanie Chen Gundorph Møller, Denmark
Mirella Costa Neto, Brazil
William Dugan, USA
Millis Faust, USA
Alyssa Fazekas, USA
Francesco Gabriele Frola, Italy
Lea Földi, Hungary
Katherine Gazda, Canada
Obengül Polen Gezmis, Turkey
Jinchang Gu, China
Christina Harward, USA
Taiyu He, China
Katherine Higgins, USA
Suvi Honkanen, Finland
Vilma Hyrkäs, Finland
Yoshiko Kamikusa, Japan
Murman Kikalishvili, Georgia
Annija Kopstale, Latvia
Giovanna Lamboglia, Brazil
Václav Lamparter, Czech Republic
Sara Länsivuori, Finland
Betsy McBride, USA
Kelly Mobey, United Kingdom
Ryosuke Morimoto, Japan
Nina Noc, Slovenia
Roosa Näveri, Finland
Mariya Oishi, USA
Ida Louise Praetorius, Denmark
András Rónai, Hungary
Alina Sakko, Finland
Alys Shee, Canada
Ryo Shimizu, Japan
Samuel Števik, Slovakia
Yimeng Sun, China
Candy Tong, USA
Arne Vandervelde, Belgium
Simon Wexler, USA
Megan Yamashita, USA and Japan
Kaitlyn Yiu, Canada
Seniors
Candice Adea, Philippines
Irina Adilova, Russia
Rodrigo Almarale, Cuba
Aoi Anraku, Japan
Maria Baranova, Finland
Maria Beseghi, Italy
Levi Blad, Sweden
Alberto Blanco, Spain
Niklas Blomkvist, Sweden
Anna Bolotashvili, Ukraine
Sergio Castro Navarro, Spain
Eric Christison, Canada
Jean Marc Cordero, France
Andrei Nicolae Cozlac, Romania
Evgenia Dolmatova, Russia
Nicol Edmonds, United Kingdom
Kristina Gudziunaite, Lithuania
Tuomas Haukka, Finland
Rachel Hernon, United Kingdom
Nataliia Ivasenko, Ukraine
Emilia Karmitsa, Finland
Michal Krcmar, Czech Republic
Ming Ma, China
Takatoshi Machiyama, Japan
Florian Modan, Germany
Machi Muto, Japan
Nikita Lyashchenko, Russia
Shoya Oeda, Japan
Emmi Pennanen, Finland
Jevgenia Pleskova, Czech Republic
Maxime Quiroga, France
Piergiorgio Regazzo, Italy
Isabella Robinson, Australia
Dina Sazonenko, Ukraine
Ksenia Seletskaja, Estonia
Vladislav Shumakov, Russia
Margarita Solodova, Russia
Ruichen Sun, China
Piia Sundqvist, Finland
Yonen Takano, Japan
Emrecan Tanis, Turkey
Yulia Tikka, Russia
Bronwyn Trevor, Australia
Emilia Vuorio, Finland
Yun Wang, China
Yukiko Yanagi, Japan
Gento Yoshimoto, Japan
Chuanya Yu, China
