Yulia Okropiridze is a Ukrainian ballroom dancer and a ballroom dancing trainer. Bronze medallist of the Ukrainian Ballroom Dancing Championship-2006.

Best known in Europe for her participation in the Eurovision Dance Contest 2007

Eurovision Dance Contest 2007

The Eurovision Dance Contest 2007 was the 1st Eurovision Dance Contest a dance entertainment co-production between the EBU and the BBC. The first ever pan-European dance competition was held on 1 September 2007 in London, United Kingdom with the participation of 16 countries...

 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

Hopak

Hopak , also referred to as Gopak or Cossack dance, is a Ukrainian dance. It is performed most often as a solitary concert dance by amateur and professional Ukrainian dance ensembles, as well as other performers of folk dances...

 and pasodoble

Pasodoble

Pasodoble is a typical dance from Spain march-like musical style as well as the corresponding dance style danced by a couple. It is the type of music typically played in bullfights during the bullfighters' entrance to the ring or during the passes just before the kill...

 set to an energetic Ukrainian-folk-tinged rocker by the popular Ukrainian rock band VV

VV

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) has arguably become one of the most notable and classical moments of the Eurovision Dance Contest

Eurovision Dance Contest

The Eurovision Dance Contest was an international dancing competition that was held for the first time in the United Kingdom on Saturday 1 September 2007....

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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

Dancing with the Stars

Dancing with the Stars is the name of several international television series based on the format of the British TV series Strictly Come Dancing, which is distributed by BBC Worldwide – the commercial arm of the BBC. Currently the format has been licensed to over 35 countries...

, where she danced with the Austrian celebrity Manuel Ortega

Manuel Ortega

Manuel Ortega, is an Austrian singer of Spanish parents, born in Steyregg. When he was ten years old, he began his career as a singer. He sang with the Florianer Sängerknaben in one of the oldest choirs from Austria.His love for pop music led to him joining a band called BAFF when he was a...

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Programs where she took part

• Eurovision Dance Contest 2007
  Eurovision Dance Contest 2007
  The Eurovision Dance Contest 2007 was the 1st Eurovision Dance Contest a dance entertainment co-production between the EBU and the BBC. The first ever pan-European dance competition was held on 1 September 2007 in London, United Kingdom with the participation of 16 countries...
  
  
• Ukrainian Dancing with the Stars. Season 3 - International League of the Champions