The Hungarian Academy of Dance will hold the Budapest Ballet Grand Prix international ballet competition from 18 to 22 November.
This year the competition for young dancers hosted by the academy, the National Dance Theatre and Budapest Palace of Arts is being held for the second time, Balázs Hankó, the minister for culture and innovation told a press conference on Wednesday.
He said Hungarian higher-education establishments were increasingly recognised internationally and the dance academy encompassed classical ballet as well as contemporary and folk dance, “all that goes together to make us Hungarian”.
Márta Molnár Fodor, the academy’s head, said the university aimed to become Europe’s leading dance training centre by 2030.
So far the competition has received around 150 applications from 14-24-year-olds from more than 20 countries, and dancers can present themselves in three age groups in the categories of classical ballet and modern dance, solo and pas de deux, she added.
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