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The prize-winners have chosen
01.04.08
Dear friends of the Prix de Lausanne,
The prizewinners of the 2008 competition have chosen the schools and companies they will join for their scholarship year:
Name of the prizewinner: |
School or compagny chosen : |
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(45) Mr Aleix Martinez, Spain |
Hamburg Ballet School – John Neumeier Hamburg, Germany
(scholarship offered by Fondation Leenaards) |
(33) Ms Lili Felméry, Hungary Hungarian Dance Academy, Budapest |
The Royal Ballet School |
(49) Mr Dylan Tedaldi, USA Boston Ballet School, Boston |
Hamburg Ballet School – John Neumeier Hamburg, Germany (scholarship offered by Adveq Management SA) |
(84) Mr Kyle Davis, USA North Carolina School of the Arts Rock School for Dance Education |
The Royal Ballet London, Great Britain (apprenticeship offered by Julius Bär) |
(64) Ms Akane Takada, Japan |
The Royal Ballet London, Great Britain (apprenticeship offered by Oak Foundation) |
(80) Mr Irlan Silva, Brazil Centro de Dança Rio Companhia Jovem |
ABT II New York, USA (apprenticeship offered by Fondation Pittet ) |
(30) Ms Marcella de Paiva, Brazil |
San Francisco Ballet School |
Press Release
05.03.08
PRIX DE LAUSANNE 2008
From January 29th to February 3rd
Lausanne, February 2008 – Outstanding success for the 36th edition of the Prix de Lausanne.
The final of the Prix de Lausanne 2008 played to a packed house.
In addition to the stunning level of the 21 finalists who would all have deserved to win a scholarship, one can safely state that the competition week was studded with stellar personalities and events.
John Neumeier as president of the jury, as choreographer for candidates’ variations, and as the creator of a splendid tribute to Maurice Béjart.
"YONDERING", an exceptional ballet seen for the first time in Switzerland, created by John Neumeier and performed by the students of three remarkable schools united in Lausanne for the occasion: those of Hamburg, Toronto and the Paris Opera.
A video-blog providing a different and more intimist view of candidates’ experience was viewed by thousands of cybernauts.
An extremely attractive mini-exhibition, staged in the theatre and featuring the paintings of Elvire Kremis Braunschweig who passed away last August, joint founder of the Prix de Lausanne with her husband Philippe Braunschweig,.
A seminar organised in conjunction with the prestigious IMD business school and entitled: Sponsors and Artistic Institutions – Differing Expectations.
A tribute to Mavis Staines, Artistic Director of the Prix de Lausanne for seven years, and who has decided – after remodelling the competition and taking it to the very pinnacle of international dance competitions – to hand over the reins to her successor Wim Broeckx, currently director of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.
A photo exhibition, named Bridge 08 and created by young photographers expressing the vision they had of the young dancers taking part in the 2007 edition of the competition, installed at the heart of the city on the Grand Pont.
The Prix de Lausanne is certainly more youthfully dynamic than ever!
Tickets for the finals of the Prix de Lausanne 2008
31.01.08
The finals of the Prix de Lausanne 2008, Sunday 3rd February is now sold out. However a very limited number of tickets will be sold at the theater just before the finals.
La finale du Prix de Lausanne 2008, qui se déroulera le dimanche 3 Février à 15h00 au théâtre de Beaulieu, est désormais complète. Néanmoins un nombre limité de billets sera vendu à la caisse du théâtre le jour de la finale.
Schedule for the public
09.01.08
The general public is welcome to watch all activities taking place on stage from the balcony of the theatre:
Wednesday, January 30 from 9:30 am to 12.45 pm: classical class for female candidates
Thursday, January 31 from 9:30 am to 11.15 am: classical class for male candidates; from 11:30 am to 3:45 pm: coaching of classical variations for female candidates
Friday, February 1 from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm: coaching of Neumeier variations for female and male candidates
Saturday, February 2: classical and Neumeier variations from 10:00 am to 1:30 pm. (15-16 year old candidates) and from 2:15 pm to 5:15 pm (17-18 year old candidates)
Tickets on sale at the box office of the theatre:
from Wednesday to Friday: chf 10.-,
Saturday: chf 15.-.
7 to 14 years old children: free access
Tickets for the finals on Sunday, February 3 at 3:00 pm may be reserved by phone to +41 (0)21 310 16 00 or www.prixdelausanne.org
Horaire public
09.01.08
Toutes les activités du concours se déroulant sur scène sont accessibles au public.
Mercredi 30 janvier de 09h30 à 12h45: leçons classiques filles
Jeudi 31 janvier de 09h30 à 11h15: leçon classique garçons; de 11h30 à 15h45: coaching des variations classiques filles
Vendredi 1er février de 09h30 à 17h00: coaching des variations de John Neumeier filles et garçons
Samedi 2 février: variations classiques et Neumeier filles et garçons: de 10h00 à 13h30 (15-16 ans) et de 14h15 à 17h15 (17-18 ans)
Billets en vente à l'entrée du théâtre de Beaulieu:
du mercredi au vendredi: chf 10.-
le samedi: chf 15.-.
Enfants de 7 à 14 ans: gratuit.
Location des places pour la finale le dimanche 3 février à 15 heures: +41 (0)21 310 16 00 ou http://www.prixdelausanne.org
Lausanne - world dance capital from January 29th to February 3th 2008
09.01.08
Preparations for the Prix de Lausanne 2008 are in full swing and we are delighted to invite you to discover this 36th edition.
On Wednesday January 30th from 3.30 pm to 5.00 pm, you will have an opportunity to attend a lecture/demonstration on the variations of the classical repertoire by Paola Cantalupo, Prix de Lausanne prize winner in 1977 and étoile dancer of the Ballets de Monte Carlo, and Sergiu Stefanschi, principal teacher at the National Ballet School of Canada in Toronto.
On Wednesday January 30th from 5.15 pm to 7.00 pm, students from dance schools in the Lausanne region will be able to take part in a classic dance class given by Sergiu Stefanschi (15-16 year old students) and David Allen (17-18 year old students). This class is reserved for classical dance students with 5 years practice.
Participation in these two events is free of charge but prior registration is indispensable at info@prixdelausanne.org by January 23rd. The number of students per class is limited to 25.
The public is welcome to watch all activities taking place on stage from the balcony of the theatre:
Wednesday, January 30 from 9:30 am to 12.45 pm: classical class for female candidates.
Thursday, January 31 from 9:30 am to 11.15 am: classical class for male candidates; from 11:30 am to 3:45 pm: coaching of classical variations for female candidates.
Friday, February 1 from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm: coaching of Neumeier variations for female and male candidates.
Saturday, February 2: classical and Neumeier variations from 10:00 am to 1:30 pm. (15-16 year old candidates) and from 2:15 pm to 5:15 pm (17-18 year old candidates).
Tickets on sale at the box office of the theatre: from Wednesday to Friday: 10.-, Saturday: 15.-. 7 to 14 years old children: free access.
Tickets for the finals on Sunday, February 3 at 3:00 pm may be reserved by phone to +41 (0)21 310 16 00 or www.prixdelausanne.org
We look forward to seeing you at the Théâtre de Beaulieu - Lausanne soon!
Results of study on the health of dancers at the 2004 and 2005 Prix de Lausanne
03.01.08
Over the years, medical research and anecdotal evidence have shown that ballet dancers, on average, have a low Body Mass Index (a measure of weight, relative to height) and that their bone mineral density is also lower than the average population. Both of these factors are known to give rise to an increased risk of stress fractures in dancers, but how these factors work together to influence long-term bone health and, in particular, their relationship to the long-term and debilitating condition of osteoporosis, is poorly understood. (read more...)
Photo exhibition of the Prix 2007
17.12.07
Dear Friends of the Prix de Lausanne,
On the occasion of the 36th edition of the competition in 2008, a joint endeavour by the Prix de Lausanne and trivial mass production takes the form of an exhibition of top-class photos by young photographers who express their own vision of the dancers taking part in the last competition.
Link to the catalogue : http://www.prixdelausanne.org/pdf/catalogue_en.pdf
Link to the online photo shop : http://www.prixdelausanne.org/photocart
By purchasing a numbered print, you help enable the organisers to fund this exhibition.
We sincerely hope that the choice of photographs selected by trivial mass production that we are presenting here will appeal to you, touch you, move you, and make you wish to acquire one of these works.
Thank you in advance for your generous support.
The Prix de Lausanne and trivial mass production.
Selected candidates for the Prix 2008
05.11.07
157 candidates (129 girls and 28 boys), representing 29 different nationalities, applied to participate in the video selection that took place last October 20-21.
The assessing panel for the qualifying round of the competition was made up of the Prix's artistic committee, with support from a group of dance experts, each of whom meets the criteria for membership of a Prix de Lausanne jury. The names of the artistic committee members and the jury selection criteria can be found here.
The assessing panel’s goal was to identify the career potential of each candidate. Whilst advanced technical skills were taken into account, dancers were not judged solely on their achievements to date, but on whether we observed the potential we believe necessary to succeed within a dancing career
Following this process, we are very pleased to inform you that the panel have selected 71 young dancers (51 girls and 20 boys), representing 22 different nationalities, to go through to the next stage of the competition, which will take place in Lausanne from January 29 to February 3, 2008. You can see who they are here .
Further to the agreement between the Prix de Lausanne and other ballet competitions (Seoul International Ballet Competition, Shanghai International Ballet Competition, Youth America Grand Prix), four young dancers will take part in the 36th Prix de Lausanne without having had to go through the DVD selection. The names of these young dancers can be seen at the end of the list of candidates selected for the 2008 Prix de Lausanne.
We would like to congratulate all these candidates and wish them all the best for their preparation in the next coming months.
2008 : New features of the schedule
16.10.07
The aim of the Prix de Lausanne is to identify potential in young dancers, rather than to evaluate their training and achievements to date. Each year, the Artistic Commission of the Prix de Lausanne undertakes a brainstorming session with the jury to investigate more effective ways to do this. These sessions have led to an extensive remodelling of the competition week in Lausanne, with changes focussed on two main areas:
- Candidates will be grouped into two age categories: ages 15 to 16 and ages 17 to 18. This is to take into account the differences between the youngest and the oldest candidates, which is particularly marked at this stage of their development. Both classical and contemporary classes will be given separately to each group and the choice of classical variations will also differ, with soloist variations suggested for younger candidates and étoile variations reserved for older competitors.
- The jury will be given more time to observe candidates in a learning environment rather than in variations rehearsed in advance of the competition. This will help the jury to assess the candidates’ ability to deal with new material and to grasp new repertoire, essential qualities within the professional dance world.
To allow the jury to make an in-depth appraisal of candidates prior to the final, the majority of the competition will now serve as a single selection phase. The semi-final which served in past years as an intermediate stage will no longer take place. Finalists (around twenty in all) will be chosen from the entire line-up of 70 or so candidates present in Lausanne.
In addition, finalists will now present one classical and one contemporary ballet variation instead of the three presented in previous years. This change is part of our efforts to improve the balance between studio and on-stage evaluations.
This refined formula combines a number of changes made over the years and will shorten the total duration of the competition by one day. We believe that the new schedule uses the available time in the most efficient and most effective way, allowing the jury to acquire, over the course of the competition, an all-round view of each candidate’s potential.
The schedule will now run as follows:
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The public will be able to watch all activities taking place on stage from the balcony of the theatre. We hope that many of you will make use of this opportunity and we will give you more information in December.
John Neumeier will serve as the President of the 2008 jury.
24.09.07
The Prix de Lausanne is delighted to announce the participation in the 2008 competition of the renowned choreographer and Director of the Hamburg Ballet, John Neumeier.
Mr Neumeier has graciously agreed to serve as the President of the 2008 jury in Lausanne and will lead a panel comprising, among other famous ballet stars, Altinay Asylmuratova, Elisabeth Platel and Anna Maria Prina.
In addition to his participation as President of the jury, Mr Neumeier has generously contributed twelve excerpts from his extensive repertoire, from which candidates can select the contemporary ballet variation they will present in the competition. These variations have been captured on film in Hamburg, performed by dancers of Mr Neumeier's company, some of whom are former laureates of the Prix de Lausanne.
Candidates will be able to learn the variations from the DVD recording in advance of the competition. During the week in Lausanne, they will be coached in these variations by members of Mr Neumeier's staff. This opportunity to study Mr Neumeier's repertoire with the guidance of his own artistic team is unique to the Prix de Lausanne, and underlines the Prix's reputation as an exceptional learning experience for talented young artists.
Registration deadline : October 15th
24.09.07
The Prix de Lausanne is an internationally renowned ballet competition open to talented young dancers from around the world between the ages of 15 and 18. Its goal is to develop the artistic potential and training of excellent professional artists, which is why the prizes awarded consist of scholarships to top-level ballet schools and companies.
In the 35 years since its creation, the Prix de Lausanne has welcomed over three thousand young dancers from thirty different countries and has enabled 198 of them to benefit from such a scholarship. Most of them are pursuing or have enjoyed a brilliant international career in the finest companies. Today, the Prix de Lausanne is far more than just a competition, having become a forum for exchanges and encounters among influential personalities in the dance world.
Registration for dancers: October 15th at the latest on http://www.prixdelausanne.org/e/prize/candidates08.php
Next competition 29th January to 3rd February, 2008
Sad news
08.08.07
Dear friends of the Prix de Lausanne,
We are extremely sorry to have to inform you that Mrs Elvire Braunschweig, founder of the Prix de Lausanne with her husband Philippe, unexpectedly passed away at her home on Sunday, August 5th
.
Elvire was the soul of the Prix de Lausanne. Her kindness and her hearty smile will continue to shine
on her work in favour of young dancers.
Article written by Jean Pierre Pastori, published in 24Heures, Switzerland
Article de Jean Pierre Pastori paru dans 24Heures