Meet the Judges

Images from top left (L-R each row): 1) LAUSANNE, 2023 - Announcing her pregnancy to her Instagram fans from backstage at Prix de Lausanne 50th Anniversary, 20 years after she herself won the competition’s top prize at age 17. 2) LONDON, 2021 - Backstage at the London Coliseum before performing in the Nutcracker with the English National Ballet. 3) OSLO, 2019 - A rest in between performances as Nikiya in La Bayadere at the Oslo Opera House. 4) MOSCOW, 2018 - With Daniil Simkin at the Bolshoi Theatre where they performed in Don Quixote as guest dancers with the Kremlin Ballet. 5) MOSCOW, 2018 - Backstage with dancer Polina Semionova during the Prix Benois de la Danse competition at the Bolshoi Theatre. 6) SAN FRANCISCO, 2016 – Posting from the airport while en route to Berlin to rehearse STYXwith British choreographer David Dawson. 7) NEW YORK, 2016 - Detail of the headpiece she wore in the titular role of Golden Cockerel at Lincoln Center, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky for American Ballet Theater. 8) NEW YORK, 2016 - Backstage at Lincoln Center after performing in Swan Lake. 9) NEW YORK, 2015 - At the emptied-out Koch Theater following the opening night performance of American Ballet Theater's 2015 fall season.