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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 […]