Saskatoon program

Canada’s Ballet Jörgen Company Dancers
Tchaikovsky 6
With Anastasia Rizikov
and guests the Saskatoon Youth Orchestra
Saturday, March, 24, 2018
7:30PM, TCU Place
For tickets call 306-975-7799 or visit www.saskatoonsymphony.org
Saniya Abilmajineva
Tashkent City,
Uzbekistan Republic
Company Member
since 2009
Saniya graduated from the
Choreography College in
Moscow in 2007. From
2007-2008, she performed
as a first soloist with the Natalia Satz Theatre
(formally known as the Children’s Musical Theatre).
Saniya is the recipient of many awards and is
a two-time medallist at the International Ballet
Competition in Berlin, winning silver in 2005 and
gold in 2006. In 2007, she received a diploma
from both the International Ballet Competition
in New York and the International Ballet Competition
in Shanghai. In 2009, she was a semifinalist
at the International Ballet Competition
at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre.
In 2013 Saniya had the opportunity to dance
Giselle as a guest artist with the International
School of Ballet. Saniya joined Canada’s Ballet
Jörgen as a company dancer in 2009.
Saniya’s roles with CBJ include the title roles in
Anastasia, Romeo & Juliet, and Cinderella, Lady
Birch in The Nutcracker: A Canadian Tradition, and
Aurora in Sleeping Beauty. Saniya was part of the
creation of many roles in CBJ’s 25th anniversary
production of Swan Lake and toured Canada
performing the acclaimed principal role of
Odette/Odile.
Junior Gaspar Caballero
Asuncion, Paraguay
Company Member
since 2015
Junior is a graduate of
Canada’s National Ballet
School, where he studied
on a full scholarship
awarded to him due to
his extraordinary talent. Junior has won awards
at several prestigious national and international
ballet competitions, including the Gold Medal
in classical ballet and Best Dancer at the XIII
National Ballet Competition in Paraguay, the
Gold Medal at the XVII International Dance
Competition in Argentina and finalist at the
2012 Prix de Lausanne.
Junior joined the CBJ Junior company in 2014, and
was promoted to company dancer the next year.
Junior’s roles with CBJ include Carabosse’s
Minion in Sleeping Beauty, title role, Lumberjack
and Raccoon in The Nutcracker: A Canadian
Tradition, and Jester in Swan Lake.
Kenny Chung Seoul,
South Korea
Company Member
since 2017
Kenny graduated from
Kay-won High School of
Arts in Korea, and completed
third grade ballet
at Sejong University’s
Department of Dance.
In 2013, Kenny won the Korea Dance Teacher
Association Gold Medal and in 2012 Gold Medal
with The Korea Professional Ballet Association.
In 2014, Kenny danced with the Korean Ballet
Theatre in New Jersey and with the Seoul
Dance Festival.
Kenny was a CBJ Junior Company Member in
2015 and an RBC Apprentice last season.
Hannah Mae Cruddas
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Company Member
since 2013
Hannah Mae began her
dance training with the
Maritime Conservatory of
Performing Arts School
of Dance and the Leica
Hardy School of Dance. In 2009, she joined
Canada’s National Ballet School in Toronto.
Hannah Mae was honoured to be the youngest
recipient of the Society of Russian Ballet’s Nesta
Toumine Memorial Award and at 14, was a semifinalist
in the Genée International Ballet Competition.
She was also privileged to be the recipient
of the Jan Wicha Memorial Cup and Nova Scotia
Talent Trust’s Lieutenant Governor’s Award for
Excellence in the Arts. At home, she danced the
title role in Alice (Dearborn), the Ragdoll Queen
in The Nutcracker (Hardy), and worked with
Kennet Oberly and Otar Beridze. Her Toronto
repertoire credits include Peggy Baker’s 5 Views
of a Temple Garden, Petipa’s La Bayadere and
Paquita, and Nacho Duato’s Jardi Tancat.
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