Our Prizewinners   Name Last Name Country Year Prize Sylviane Bayard France 1973 Scholarship Michel Gascard France 1973 Scholarship Corinne Schmitt France 1973 Scholarship Tom Van Cauwenbergh Belgium 1973 Jury's Special Prize Margareth Asplanato France 1974 Scholarship Mohamed Bahiri France 1974 Scholarship Georges Canata France 1974 Scholarship Riita Heinonen Finland 1974 Scholarship Soile Heinonen Finland 1974 Scholarship Sibylle Acatos Switzerland 1975 Best Swiss Candidate Larissa Birioukoff Switzerland 1975 Scholarship Christiane Sturnick France 1975 Scholarship Philippe Talard France 1975 Personal Choreography Agnès Thore France 1975 Scholarship Pierre Wyss Switzerland 1975 Scholarship Laure Balon France 1976 Scholarship Isabelle Boutot-Muller France 1976 Personal Choreography Rogert Johannsen Denmark 1976 Scholarship Susan Johnson Great Britain 1976 Scholarship Jana Kurova Czech Republic 1976 Gold Medal Stéphane Prince France 1976 Scholarship Ben Van Cauwenbergh Belgium 1976 Gold 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Wünsche Germany 1998 Cash Prize Yuichiro Yokoseki Japan 1998 Scholarship Clara Blanco Casquete Spain 1999 Scholarship Kate Cornish Australia 1999 Scholarship Laetitia Guggi Switzerland 1999 Best Swiss Candidate Rina Kambe Japan 1999 Prix de Lausanne "Hope" + Contemporary Dance Prize Davit Karapetyan Armenia 1999 Scholarship Stage professionnel Kenta Kojiri Japan 1999 Scholarship Stage professionnel Rainer Krenstetter Austria 1999 Scholarship Shumpei Nemoto Japan 1999 Prix de Lausanne "Hope" Pierre Pontvianne France 1999 Scholarship Stage professionnel Yuriko Kajiya Japan 2000 Scholarship Sergej Kheilik Russia 2000 Prix de Lausanne "Hope" Mariko Kida Japan 2000 Scholarship Masayoshi Onuki Japan 2000 Scholarship Stage professionnel Anna Osadcenko Germany 2000 Prix de Lausanne "Hope" Ami Sakachi Japan 2000 Scholarship Claudine Schoch Switzerland 2000 Best Swiss Candidate Kenta Shimizu Japan 2000 Scholarship + Contemporary Dance Prize Jeroen Verbruggen Belgium 2000 Scholarship Jaime Garcia Castilla Spain 2001 Scholarship Stage prof. + Excellence+Contemporary Dance Prize Ryoichi Hirano Japan 2001 Scholarship Stage professionnel Momoko Hirata Japan 2001 Prix de Lausanne "Hope" Misa Kuranaga Japan 2001 Scholarship Stage professionnel Natasha Kusen Australia 2001 Scholarship Ludovic Ondiviela France 2001 Scholarship Louisa Rachedi France 2001 Prix de Lausanne "Hope" Sarawanee Tanatanit Thailand 2001 Scholarship Stage professionnel Soo-Youn Cho Korea 2002 Scholarship Yuhui Choe Korea 2002 Scholarship Stage professionnel + Contemporary Dance Prize Matthew Golding Canada 2002 Scholarship Hyo Jung Kang Korea 2002 Scholarship Maria Kochetkova Russia 2002 Scholarship Stage professionnel Vitali Safronkine Russia 2002 Scholarship Stage professionnel Milena Sidorova Ukraine 2002 Scholarship Maksat Sydykov Kyrgyzstan 2002 Scholarship Hitomi Takeda Japan 2002 Prix de Lausanne "Hope" Carrie-Ann Vail Switzerland 2002 Best Swiss Candidate Sarah-Jane Brodbeck Switzerland 2003 Best Swiss Candidate Celisa Diuana Brazil 2003 Scholarship Stage professionnel Keigo Fukuda Japan 2003 Scholarship Stage professionnel Lei He China 2003 Scholarship Sung Min Kim Korea 2003 Scholarship Stage professionnel Steven Mc Rae Australia 2003 Scholarship Hee Seo Korea 2003 Scholarship Chao Shi China 2003 Scholarship Yaosheng Weng China 2003 Scholarship Danqing Xu China 2003 Scholarship + Contemporary Dance Prize Joseph Caley Great Britain 2004 Scholarship Hee Jae Choi Korea 2004 Scholarship Ryo Izawa Japan 2004 Scholarship Yi-Jee Jang Korea 2004 Contemporary interpretation Gakuro Matsui Japan 2004 Scholarship Stage professionnel Alison McWhinney Australia 2004 Scholarship Moe Nieda Japan 2004 Scholarship Alex Wong Canada 2004 Scholarship Stage professionnel Karen Azatyan Armenia 2005 Scholarship Seo Hye Han Korea 2005 Scholarship Adeline Kaiser France 2005 Scholarship Yu Jin Kim Korea 2005 Scholarship Zherlin Ndudi Ukraine 2005 Scholarship Jin Young Won Korea 2005 Scholarship Stage professionnel + Contemporary Dance Prize Chengwu Guo China 2006 Scholarship + Contemporary Dance Prize Hyang Gee Hong Korea 2006 Scholarship Shino Mori Japan 2006 Scholarship Vadim Muntagirov Russia 2006 Scholarship Sergiy Polunin Ukraine 2006 Scholarship + Prix du Public Yijing Zhang China 2006 Scholarship James Hay Great Britain 2007 Scholarship Chaelee Kim Korea 2007 Scholarship Mai Kono Japan 2007 Scholarship + Prix du Public Delia Matthews Great Britain/New Zealand 2007 Scholarship Telmo Moreira Portugal 2007 Scholarship Sae-eun Park Korea 2007 Scholarship Charles-Louis Yoshiyama France/Japan 2007 Interprétation contemporaine Kyle Davis USA 2008 Scholarship Marcella de Paiva Brazil 2008 Did not use the scholarship Lili Felméry Hungary 2008 Scholarship Aleix Martinez Spain 2008 Scholarship + Prix d'interprétation contemporaine Gozde Ozgur Turkey 2008 Best Swiss Candidate Irlan Silva Brazil 2008 Scholarship Akane Takada Japan 2008 Scholarship + Prix du Public Dylan Tedaldi USA 2008 Scholarship Miki Mizutani Japan 2009 Scholarship Telmo Moreira Portugal 2009 Scholarship + Prix du Public Sebastian Concha Chili 2009 Did not use the scholarship Rina Nemoto Japan 2009 Scholarship Hannah O'Neill Australia 2009 Scholarship Zhaoqian Peng China 2009 Scholarship Tatsuki Takada Japan 2009 Scholarship Edo Wijnen Belgium 2009 Scholarship + Prix d'interprétation contemporaine Tatsuki Takada Japan 2009 Finalist * has received the scholarship from one of the laureate who did not use his/her prize