Choreographic Project

Partner schools have been invited to send their best students to Lausanne to present a one-of-a-kind collaboration. 50 students from around the world came to Beaulieu Theatre independently of the competition to learn – in 8 days – a new piece (Pulse) created by the renowned choreographer Goyo Montero for this special occasion. The dancers then performed their work during the Interlude as a world premiere!

A demonstration/rehearsal was open to public (free of charge) on Wednesday January 31st, 2018 from 6.15pm to 6.45pm at the Beaulieu Theater.

This project was supported by the Fonds pour l’Équipement Touristique de la Région Lausannoise (FERL), the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation, the Friends of the Prix de Lausanne and Dance West.

Goyo Montero coaching during Prix de Lausanne 2014 ©GregoryBatardon

Goyo Montero is a 1994 Prize Winner and has been collaborating with the Prix de Lausanne for many years. He is the Director and main Choreographer of the Nuremberg Ballet. For the Choreographic Project, he collaborated with the composer Owen Belton and the lighting designer Nicolás Fischtel to create a new piece for this unprecedented project that will be presented to the public as a “world premiere”.

They said about the project…

Arlene Minkhorst – Royal Winnipeg Ballet School

“I am in awe of this project and the opportunity for our students. They are so very excited to participate!”

Indrani Delmaine & Gigi Hyatt, The School of the Hamburg Ballet – John Neumeier

“This will be such a valuable experience for all students involved. We are very very grateful and appreciative that they can be offered this exceptional opportunity.”

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The initiative for this wonderful project came from Shelly Power.
Ideally it should serve both aims: making a piece that stands by itself and at the same time showing the young artists the process of a choreographic creation.
I am very fond of working with young talents who are mostly free of prior set ups, willing to appear in the open and to take their place.
It will be an exciting challenge for us to come together with the mutual goal to realize this project within a very restricted time frame.
I am very much looking forward to this unique experience.

Goyo Montero

His biography

Born in 1975 in Madrid, Spain. He was formed by Carmen Roche and completed his studies at the Royal Conservatory for Professional Dance in Madrid and the School of the National Ballet of Cuba. Among others he received the following awards as a dancer: Winner of the Prix Lausanne in 1994 and Gold Medal and Grand Prix at the International Ballet Competition of Luxembourg. Critics of Dance Europe Magazine nominated him Best Dancer of the season 2003/2004. Goyo Montero was Principal Dancer at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and soloist at the Oper Leipzig, Staatstheater Wiesbaden and the Royal Ballet of Flanders.

As a choreographer he created pieces for Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opera of Kiel, Ankara and Izmir State Ballet, Modern Dance Turkey, the Company Gregor Seyffert, Ballet Carmen Roche, National Ballet of Cuba, the Ballet de Teatres de la Generalitat Valenciana, the Company Maggio Danza and Compañia Nacional de Danza, Acosta Danza, Context Festival Diana Vishneva/Perm Ballet and National Ballet Sodre, Uruguay, among others.

With season 2008/2009 Goyo Montero is ballet director and principal choreographer of Nuremberg Ballet.

Goyo Montero coaching during Prix de Lausanne 2014 ©GregoryBatardon

In 2012 and 2017 Goyo Montero has been member of the jury at the Prix de Lausanne. From 2013 until 2016 his choreographies have been part of the contemporary repertoire of this competition. His creations became part of the Beijing International Ballet und Choreography Competition in 2017.

Among his awards: “Villa de Madrid” (2006); 1st award of the Iberoamerican Competition of Choreography (2006), Villanueva award by the UNEAC (Union of Writers, Critics and Artits of Cuba) and “Teatro de Madrid” (2006); “Best Italian production” by Danza&Danza for “Sleeping Beauty” (2008); Cultural Prize of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Middle Franconia (2009); Harlequin Award (2010); Premio Nacional de Danza by the Spanish Ministry of Culture (2011);  Bavarian Culture Award (2014).

List of the participants 2018

Owen Belton

Composer

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For my composition Pulse, Goyo Montero wanted me to try a theme and variations. So the overall feeling of the music stays the same though it goes through changes of tempo and feel in the 4 different connected sections that make up the piece. The main melodic instrument used through the piece is processed piano, though it is treated in different ways in the different sections.

This collaboration with Goyo Montero for the Prix De Lausanne is our 7th time working together. I’ve worked on 4 full length shows for Ballett Nuremberg and two separate twenty minute pieces for other companies.

Nicolás Fischtel

Lighting designer

Carlos Lázaro

Coach