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It was 2 years ago, when we celebrated Prix the Lausanne 40th anniversary: operation “tutus on statues”

« You have a great opportunity to take your talent to a new level, meet other dancers from different schools and backgrounds and work with some of the best teachers. I wish you the best of luck! » Maria Kochetkova ’s advice to Prix candidates

Ahead of the first Preselection in Dresden this autumn, we have been catching up with Prix participants who have made a dancing career in Germany. To round off our series, here’s 1997 Prix winner and Stuttgart Ballet Principal Friedemann Vogel: Keeping Focus At the Princess Grace Academy of Classical Dance in Monte-Carlo, where I trained, […]

Prix Prize Winner (2000) & ABT dancer Yuriko Kajiya on her favorite roles: « It is very hard to pick a favourite role. I look at each new role or choreography as a question. It is the pursuit of those questions through rehearsals and performances where I am able to grow as a dancer. Each new […]

Sonia Vinograd Ahead of the first Preselections in Dresden this autumn, we have been catching up with Prix participants who have made a dancing career in Germany. Our series continue with Dresden Semperoper Ballet’s Sonia Vinograd: Sonia is a recent Prix laureate. After wowing audiences during the 2012 finals with her soaring jumps, go-for-it attitude […]

Mai Kono, Prix Laureate in 2007 and Demi-Soloist with the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich On Dreams I initially came to the Prix de Lausanne when I was 15 years old. I passed the quarter finals but that was it. I wanted to come back to go further, I had been following the competition since I […]