Maris LIEPA Foundation's scholars.

MARIS LIEPA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Maris LIEPA Foundation's scholars
 

The aim of the Foundation is to perpetuate and develop traditions in the fields of culture and ballet. Maris Liepa was an outstanding teacher who trained a great many dancers. One of the Foundation’s goals is to support young ballet dancers and ballet school pupils, give them the opportunity of performing in public and involve them in serious work in new productions. Since the Foundation was set up, Maris Liepa Scholarships have been awarded in Moscow to: Kseniya Abbazova, Maxim Afanasyev, Nelli Kobakhidze, Anton Kuznetsov, Anastasiya Meskova, Viktoria Osipova, Appolinary Proskurin, Anastasiya Stashkevich, Olga Stebletsova, Mikhail Shelamov with the personal generous support from Viktor Huako; - and in Riga to: Artur Rozenbakh, Elza Leymane, Raymonds Martinovs, Natalya Korotya, Mariya Shevchenko, Anna Yankovska, Anna Novikova Agnes Germa Ketiya Busa, with generous support from Nina Kondrateva. Some of the scholarship-winners have already completed their training at ballet school and joined the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia and Latvian National Opera. For Maris Liepa scholarship-winner Yekaterina Borchenko, soloist with the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre, the Foundation organized a first performance – in Giselle (Chelyabinsk Theatre of Opera and Ballet) and it presented her at the Vaganova Competition where she was a prize-winner. Two of the Foundation’s scholarship-winners from the Nikolai Ogryzkov School of Contemporary Dance have now graduated from the School and, in the very same year, continued their training in France and in Holland.

Elza Leimane	Raimonds Martinovs	Natalya Korotaya
Anna Yankovskaya	Agnese Germa	Anna Novikova
Maria Shevchenko	Ketia Busa	Arturs Rosenbahs