Yulia Okropiridze

Yulia Okropiridze (born June 24, 1989 in Brovary, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian ballroom dancer and a ballroom dancing trainer. Bronze medallist of the Ukrainian Ballroom Dancing Championship-2006.
The winner of Miss Brovary-2006 Beauty Contest.
Best known in Europe for her participation in the Eurovision Dance Contest 2007 where she with her partner Ilya Sydorenko (representing Ukraine) have taken the second place.
The second dance (out of two) of their performance (free combination of hopak and pasodoble set to an energetic Ukrainian-folk-tinged rocker by the popular Ukrainian rock band Vopli Vidopliassova ("VV")) has arguably become one of the most notable and classical moments of the Eurovision Dance Contest.
Biography
Yulia has graduated from the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts as a bachelor in Ballroom Choreography. She also took part in the third Ukrainian edition of Dancing with the Stars, where she danced with the Austrian celebrity Manuel Ortega.
Programs where she took part
*Eurovision Dance Contest 2007
*Ukrainian Dancing with the Stars. Season 3 - International League of the Champions
 
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