A large audience attended the Prix de Lausanne finals both at Théâtre de Beaulieu and online. Eight young dancers have been awarded a scholarship allowing them to enter one of the 68 partner schools and companies of the competition. Promising dancers from all over the world competed to arrive in the final 20, and the names were announced yesterday.
Prix de Lausanne 2017 prize winners
410 – Michele Esposito – 17 years old – Italy
- La Bayadère
- Nijinsky
306 – Marina Fernandes da Costa Duarte – 17 years old – Brazil
- Don Quixote
- Préludes CV
415 – Taisuke Nakao – 17 years old – Japan
- Swan Lake
- Vaslaw
201 – Koyo Yamamoto – 15 years old – Japan
- La Fille mal gardée
- Yondering
102 – Lauren Hunter – 15 years old – United-States
- Le Corsaire
- Bach Suite II
423 – Stanislaw Wegrzyn – 18 years old – Poland
- Giselle
- Vaslaw
120 – Diana Georgia Ionescu – 16 years old – Romania
- Paquita
- Nocturnes
406 – Sunu Lim – 17 years old – South Korea
- Giselle
- Wrong Note Rag
Contemporary Dance Prize
410 – Michele Esposito – 17 years old – Italy
For his interpretation of Nijinsky.
Audience Favourite
306 – Marina Fernandes da Costa Duarte – 17 years old – Brazil
- Don Quixote
- Préludes CV
The Rudolf Nureyev Foundation Artistic Award
205 – Denilson Almeida – 16 years old – Brazil
- Coppelia
- Vaslaw
Best Swiss Candidate Prize
410 – Michele Esposito – 17 years old – Italy
- La Bayadère
- Nijinsky
During the pause while the jury reached their decision, the audience enjoyed an original creation of John Neumeier called John's dream performed by the National Youth Ballet of Germany. They also saw the Grand Pas de deux choreographed by Christian Spuck and performed by Lauren Cuthbertson, Principal Dancer of The Royal Ballet, and Alexander Jones, Soloist of the Ballett Zürich. Prix de Lausanne partners with both these companies.
During the week of the competition our daily live-streamed sessions have been watched more than 500,000 times by viewers online (on ARTE Concert, our website and Facebook).
Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano') about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.
His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia' column for Dancing Times magazine.
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Thanks for thé list. Nice to see the celebration of ballet and it’s future stars.