The International Festival of Contemporary Choreography, dates back to the 1987 festival of Soviet counterculture (Photo: AP)
Spectacular images showcase the electrifying environment along with the poise of performers (Photo: AP)
A couple strikes a graceful pose in the International Festival of Contemporary Choreography (Photo: AP)
Refugees heading to EU through Belarus were the winning theme as the crisis has become a global issue (Photo: AP)
Thirty dance companies and individual dancers from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, Estonia, Moldova and China performed at the festival (Photo: AP)
A Belarusian dance company won First Prize for a dance about refugees while a Chinese dancer who performed an autobiographical dance won the festival's Grand Prix prize (Photo: AP)
Vitebsk, the birthplace of avant-garde artist Marc Chagall, is better known in the former Soviet Union as the host city of an annual festival of pop music that attracts washed-up Russian celebrities (Photo: AP)
Dancers perform at the International Festival of Contemporary Choreography in the town of Vitebsk, Belarus. (Photo: AP)
Dancers from across the world showcased dancing skills.