After leaving her native Riga for a year to join the Universal Ballet in Seoul, Evelina Godunova has returned home in triumph. Evelina has just won the gold medal in solo dance at the 13th International Competition of Ballet and Choreography held at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre. The jury was chaired by the towering figure of Yury Grigorovich. The Russian president, as well as the president of Brazil presided at the gala concert, applauding the stunning performance of the Latvia-born, ethnic Russian artist.
The Orbita poetry collective from Riga, Latvia will appear with readings in four cities on the East Coast of the USA from November 14-19. Sergey Timofeyev, a member of Orbita, commented on this rather exceptional event to Rus.lsm.lv.
The Mākslas Banka art gallery is located at the very start of the Sherlock-Holmesian Jauniela street in Rīga. An exhibition of the Danish artist Ivonna Gerner has opened here – and the artist's fate is very tightly knit with that of the Latvian capital, reported Andrey Shavrei (Андрей Шаврей) of LSM's Russian-language service.
Cēsis arts festival, the largest regional arts festival in Latvia, has announced its schedule. It will take place in the lovely city of Cēsis from July 3 to August 9. The festival is dedicated to the Northern countries and their quest for identity in arts, music, cinema and architecture.