Kseniya Simonova – Sand Animation – Ukraine’s Got Talent

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Kseniya Simonova (born 1985 as Ксения Симонова) is a sand animator from Ukraine. She started drawing with sand after her business collapsed due to the early 21st century credit crunch and had been drawing for less than a year when she entered Ukraine’s Got Talent.^[1] She became the 2009 Winner of Ukraine’s Got Talent^[2], constructing an animation that portrayed life during USSR’s Great Patriotic War against the Third Reich in World War II.

Simonova won 1,000,000 Ukraninan Hryvnia (approx. USD125,000) for her first place in the show.^[3] A YouTube video of the performance has received more than 7 million hits.[4