{"id":31332,"date":"2018-09-17T08:07:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T08:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/?p=31332"},"modified":"2018-09-17T08:07:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T08:07:04","slug":"global-dance-challenge-in-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/global-dance-challenge-in-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Dance Challenge in Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great international Platform for young dancers:
\nGlobal Dance Challenge in Vancouver <\/strong><\/p>\n

This past August, Global Dance Challenge celebrated another successful year. This international dance competition, held in beautiful Vancouver Canada, hosted over 200 competitors with a jury of internationally renowned choreographers, teachers and directors from some of the most distinguished companies in the world. These dance luminaries were joined by Peter Boal, Artistic Director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet and Director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet School<\/em>, as the President of the Jury. Global Dance challenge (GDC) believes in providing a platform for aspiring dancers to have an extraordinary opportunity to showcase their talents. Chan Hon Goh, Artistic Director of GDC and former principal ballerina of the National Ballet of Canada,<\/em> created a competition where students would receive professional coaching and masterclasses by world class teachers to cultivate artistic excellence. Global Dance Challenge offered 5 days of various masterclasses for all competitors including their coaching sessions.\u00a0 This year, GDC included marked masterclasses for candidates. Giving them an opportunity to showcase their technical strengths and artistic abilities in the studio as well as when performing onstage. Semi finals were for 2 days at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre on August 13 and 14th<\/sup> 2018. The finals and gala were on August 15th<\/sup>, 2018 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.<\/p>\n

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Ana Wu, winns Gold for category D1 , received the Judges Special Award (for outstanding performance in 3 categories)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All competitors had the opportunity to perform in the gala performance. The gala performance also included principal dancers from the Pacific Northwest Ballet, Karel Cruz and Lesley Rausch, who performed Swan Lake Act 2- White Swan Pas De Deux<\/em> and a Neoclassical piece \u201cAfter the Rain<\/em>\u201d choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon. The GDC gala also featured principal dancers from Ballet Manila, Katherine Barkman\u00a0and Joseph Phillips, who performed Grand Pas Classique<\/em> and Simon Hoy\u2019s \u201cThe Distance between us<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Tali Elmann, 1st place in B3 solo, and received GDC Prix de Bronze trophy for B category. Jury awarded “Outstanding Choreography for Donald Thom’s choreography of Wadjda’s Journey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Among the many awards given, this year introduced the prestigious GDC Pix D\u2019Or trophy given out to the overall top 3 marks in category A, B, C & D. As well as numerous scholarships were awarded to programs at Goh Ballet Academy, Kirov Ballet Academy, Shanghai Dance School and 11 competitors received full participation scholarships to the Ballet Beyond Borders Competition in January 2019. This year, Goh Ballet Academy\u2019s Ashley Coupal from Canada won gold in the professional ballet category (A) for a second year in a row as well as gold in the contemporary solo category(D). Ashley was awarded the Prix D\u2019Or trophy for both ballet and contemporary and was chosen for the \u201cOutstanding Performer Award<\/em>\u201d. \u00a0Haruka Okayasu from China received silver for both ballet and contemporary as well as the Prix d’Argent trophy for both ballet and contemporary. An impressive group of 26 young dancers from the Jin Bao Long Ballet School, performed their ensemble piece \u201cSkating Waltz\u201d in perfect unison resulting in 1st<\/sup> place for an ensemble in the novice ballet category(B). They also received the GDC Prix de l’Or trophy for the Category B (novice ballet) and the jury awarded them \u201cOutstanding Coach<\/em>\u201d and \u201cOutstanding Dance Organization<\/em>.\u201d The Goh Ballet Academy also received \u201cOutstanding Dance Organization<\/em>\u201d as their students were awarded gold in 8 different sub categories.
\nCongratulations to all the dancers who competed in the 2018 Global Dance Challenge!<\/p>\n

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Skating Waltz, 1st place B1 ensemble, Prix de l’Or for category B, “Outstanding Coach” (jury award) and “Outstanding Organization” (jury award)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next year\u2019s Global Dance Challenge will be held in August 2019 in Vancouver Canada. Updates can be found on the website gdancechallenge.com<\/p>\n

Tanja Phelps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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