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[SFB2b]

if you have high bandwidth the archives from past years are awesome to watch!

[SFB2b]

if you have high bandwidth the archives from past years are awesome to watch!

[bingham]

Jennifer Stahl of California is one of the finalist in the PDL competition.Finals is tomorrow afternoon(Swiss Time)There is a live internet broadcast. Check w/ PDL website.
          Good luck to Jennifer.
Joe

[Natalia]

Here are the results.  America & England fared very well.  Jennifer won one of the 'Encouragement Prizes', as did Aaron Robinson of Great Britain/Royal Ballet School.  Another Royal Ballet student, Joseph Caley, won one of the Scholarships (the top prize of this event), as did Miss Hee Jae Choi of Washington, DC's Universal Ballet Academy. Congratulations to all of them!

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THE PRIZE-WINNERS OF THE 2004 PRIX DE LAUSANNE ARE:

PRIX DE LAUSANNE "SCHOLARSHIP" - "APPRENTICE SCHOLARSHIP"

Winners
Apprentice scholarship
(110) Mr Alex Wong, Canada
Goh Ballet Academy, Vancouver, Canada


Prize provided by:  The main sponsor of the Prix de Lausanne : Beau-Rivage Palace


Scholarship
(002) Ms Moe Nieda, Japan
Acri Horimoto Ballet Academy, Saitama, Japan



Prize provided by Fondation Antoine Leenaards




Apprentice scholarship
(119) Mr Andriy Pisaryev, Ukrainie
John Cranko-Schule, Stuttgart



Prize provided by : Capital International - Ms N. Sikorsky




Scholarship
(103) Mr Ryo Izawa, Japan
Reiko Yamamoto Ballet School, Ota, Japan



Prize provided by:  Fondation Harafi




Scholarship
(124) Mr Joseph Caley, Great Britain
The Royal Ballet School, London



Prize provided by:  Cartier




Apprentice scholarship
(120) Mr Gakuro Matsui, Japan
Mika Sasaki Ballet Academy, Tokyo



Prize provided by:  Fondation Pro Scientia et Arte





Scholarship
(046) Ms Hee Jae Choi, Korea
Universal Ballet Academy, Seoul, Korea



Prize provided by:  Fondation en faveur de l'Art chorégraphique



"CONTEMPORARY DANCE PRIZE"

Winner  
(050) Ms Yi-Jee Jang, Korea
Pre-school of the Korean National University of Arts, Seoul



Prize provided by: Fondation Nestlé pour l'Art




In addition, 1000.- Swiss francs to encourage the candidates have been given by BOBST SA to:
Finalists


(106) Mr Istvan Simon, Rumania
Hungarian Dance Academy, Budapest

(019) Mr Jennifer Stahl, USA
Maria Lazar Classical Ballet Academy, Los Angeles, USA

(084) Ms Sang-Eun Lee, Korea
SunHwa Arts High School, Seoul

(050) Ms Yi-Jee Jang, Korea
Pre-school of the Korean National University of Arts, Seoul

(121) Mr Aaron Robison, Great Britain
The Royal Ballet School, London

(062) Ms Alison McWhinney, Australia
English National Ballet School, London
Ecole Ballet Studios, Sydney, Australia

[LMCtech]

Interesting. A lot of asian dancers.

[lampwick]

I noticed the same thing when I was watching archives of past competitions LMCtech. My teacher insists that Asian students work harder (especially Japanese). I usually just laugh at any generalization like that, but there's probably some truth in it.

[Odette]

I have also been told that they have a greater work ethic than we do (a generalised we I know!)  It's also something my mother used to quote at me whilst I was practising (and still does if given half a chance!)  Also  'you need some more backbone to put in the place of that wishbone!!!'

[Clare]

Whilst I do broadly agree with the above two posts it is probably also worth pointing out that there were a lot of entrants from Japan (32) and Korea (14). So with 46 out of a total of 119 entrants it is not totally out of proportion that half the finalists and slightly more than half the prize winners were from those two countries.

Clare

[Viviane]

I'm not so impressed by the high numbers of competitors from Japan and Korea.
Cultural background is totally different and for a lot of dancers, the training too !
The main goal of the Prix de Lausanne is to win a scholarship for one of the world-reknown top-balletschools in the West.
I learned from some Japanese dancers that it's an honour for a family to have a balletdancer. Well, I know - we feel the same way   - but we are far more sensible about it.