The Lausanne Prize ( French: Le Prix de Lausanne ) is an international ballet school competition held annually in late January - early February in Lausanne (Switzerland) since 1973 . Since 1974 , the finals of the competition have been broadcast live by Romanesque Switzerland television .
Held by the Fondation d'art chorégraphique . The budget is 1.3 million francs, including funds from the budgets of the city of Lausanne and the canton of Vaud , as well as income from the lottery [1] .
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History
It was founded in 1972 by industrialist with the support of choreographer Maurice Bejart and ballerina Rosella Hightower , who developed the rules for the competition. The first competition was held January 19-21, 1973 at . The jury was chaired by Rosella Hightower , the winners received a reward of 5 thousand Swiss francs.
In 1985 , the competition was held in New York, in 1989 in Tokyo, in 1995 in Moscow, on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater . After the collapse of the USSR, participants from former USSR countries began to come to Lausanne, in 1992 , the representative of the Georgian school, became the laureate of the competition, in 1993 , participants from Russia first reached the final of the competition, in 1994 a student of the A. Ya. Academy Vaganova Diana Vishneva won the gold medal.
In the mid-2000s, a preliminary selection of participants by video was introduced, while the third, “free” number (assigned to the participant specifically for the contest) was removed from the program and the semi-final was canceled - now not only the finalists, but all the participants of the “Lausanne Prize” could demonstrate their variations to the jury and the public on stage and in costumes.
The competitors show their level of mastery of classical and modern dance techniques - first in the ballet hall, during lessons with teachers, then in costumes and on the stage, performing in advance one variation from classical ballet and one modern number of their choice from the proposed list. Modern rooms are often staged by invited choreographers specifically for the competition. All participants are provided with detailed video instructions for rehearsals, starting in 2016 videos with the performance and analysis of modern numbers are available directly on the competition website.
Starting from the second competition, the finals began to be broadcast live by Romanesque Switzerland television . In the 2000s, Internet broadcasting also began. At first, only the final was broadcast, the performance of the invited artists during the calculation of the results and the award ceremony, in 2015 they were supplemented with the full broadcast of the semifinal, as well as daily hourly live broadcasts. In 2012, Bejart Ballet soloists and conducted a daily video blog of the contest.
In 2015, specially for the contestants, a was built in one of the rehearsal halls, similar to that on the stage.
In 2018, the choreographic project “Prizes of Lausanne” was organized for the first time - during the competition week, choreographer put on the 50 students of the partner schools of the competition the ballet “Pulse”, which was presented before the ceremony of declaring the winners.
Laureates
Over the years of the contest, 4200 young dancers from 77 countries of the world participated in it [* 1] . Among the 400 laureates [* 2], such ballet stars, choreographers and educators as:
- 1973 - Sylvian Bayard *, Michel Gaskard
- 1976 - *
- 1977 - Paola Cantalupo *, , Martin Schlepfer
- 1979 - *
- 1980 - , , Patrick Arman ,
- 1981 -
- 1983 - Katarzyna Gdanets ,
- 1984 -
- 1985 - Ben Hughes
- 1986 - *, , Darcy Bussell , Christine Blanc
- 1987 - Christina McDermott, Jose Martinez
- 1988 - Lisa-Marie Callam ,
- 1989 - Lucinda Dunn , , ,
- 1990 - Carlos Acosta *
- 1991 - Christopher Wildon *, Aki Saito, David Dawson
- 1992 - Jiri and Otto Bubenichek , ,
- 1993 - Kush Alexi
- 1994 - Diana Vishneva *, , Benjamin Milpieu
- 1995 - Natalia Sologub , , Kent Kura
- 1996 - Ivan Putrov , Shoko Nakamura, Marcelo Gomez ,
- 1997 - , Friedemann Vogel
- 1998 - , Tigran Mikaelyan, Arsen Mehrabyan
- 1999 - David Karapetyan, Karina Sarkisova
- 2000 - Mariko Kida , Anna Osadchenko
- 2001 - , Natalia Domracheva
- 2002 - Maria Kochetkova ,
- 2003 - *
- 2004 - Alex Wong , Andrey Pisarev
- 2006 - Sergey Polunin , Vadim Muntagirov
- 2009 - Hannah O'Neill
- 2015 - Harrison Lee *
- 2018 - Sheil Wagman *
- 2019 - Mackenzie Brown *
- (*) - Golden medal
Jury Chairs
- 1973 - Rosella Hightower
- 2000 -
- 2001 - John Neumeier
- 2003 -
- 2004 -
- 2005 -
- 2006 -
- 2007 -
- 2008 - John Neumeier
- 2009 - Karen Kane
- 2010 -
- 2011 -
- 2012 -
- 2013 -
- 2014 - Kay Mazzo
- 2015 -
- 2016 -
- 2017 -
- 2018 -
- 2019 - Carlos Acosta
Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2017 - John Neumeier
- 2018 -
Notes
- Sources
- ↑ Dance hopes of Lausanne . // swissinfo.ch. Date of treatment June 14, 2014.
- Comments
- ↑ Data for 2013.
- ↑ Data for 2015.