site.btaSara-Nora Prima Contest Encourages Young People in Bulgaria, Says BTA Director General

On Saturday BTA Director General Kiril Valchev attended the award ceremony and the subsequent gala concert of the third edition of the Sara-Nora Prima International Ballet Competition, which took place between July 7 and 12 in Burgas, on the Black sea. 

In his speech, Valchev said that the Sara-Nora Prima International Ballet Competition is proof that in Bulgaria dreams come true, and more and more young people, from 19 countries, have followed their dreams. 

Valchev noted that, as part of its mission to promote Bulgarian culture, BTA features many festivals in its news and has partnership agreements with more than twenty of their organizers, including 12 municipalities with their entire cultural calendars.

Valchev also said that for the third year in a row Sara-Nora Krusteva has managed to increase the number of dreamers on the ballet stage, who gather in Burgas. “From 120 participants from 12 countries in the first year to 160 from 19 countries now,” said the BTA Director General.

Valchev presented the awards to the winners in the first age group between 9 and 12 years old, in which all the winners were from Bulgaria. Sanya Foteva was ranked first, while Nancy Yordanova and Magdalena Zlateva were awarded as her runners-up. Two third prizes were also awarded to Nadezhda Dobreva and Valeria Mihaylova.