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It only shows name, nationality, school and country of those selected to participate in the live rounds in Lausanne, it does not give those details for all those who applied. The document showing the total number of applicants only gives their nationalities and not where they trained. Number of applicants: nombre-de-candidats-pdl-2024-1.pdf (prixdelausanne.org) Selected to the live rounds: selected-candidates-2024-1.pdf (prixdelausanne.org)

1) 201 – João Pedro DOS SANTOS SILVA – Brazil 2) 415 – Martinho LIMA SANTOS – Portugal 3) 317 – Paloma LIVELLARA VIDART – Argentina 4) 106 – Crystal HUANG – United States 5) 315 – Airi KOBAYASHI – Japan 6) 411 – Jenson BLIGHT – Australia 7) 417 – Juliann FEDELE-MALARD – France 8] 302 – Natalie STEELE – United States 9) 207 – Taichi TOSHIDA – Japan

No, I don't think the male dancers have an advantage. Not at this level of competition. I watched the final and the results but didn't note the winners because I thought it would have been published immediately but it doesn't seem to have been. Great to see 9 prizes being awarded, I think that's more than previous years. 15 year old Joao Pedro Dos Santos Silva won the first prize. I loved his fun performance of the variation from Harlequinade and he consistently had incredible control on his pirouettes. It'll be interesting to see which school he chooses. There seemed to be a bit of confusion at the end. Someone was heard saying something about two prizes and Deborah Bull's mic was still on when she was asking if she should announce it. I wonder what was going on!

There are a number of schools and companies who have chosen to be partners to the Prix de Lausanne. This is by mutual agreement of the school and competition, but it's the school/ company's decision to be a partner or not. Each prize winner gets to spend a year at the school (for the younger candidates) or company (for the older ones) of their choice from the list of partner schools/ companies. In the even that 2 prize winners choose the same school, the higher placed gets priority, but the school can decide to take both if they like (but are not obligated to.) Whether or not the school has students participating is not connected to this.

The Royal Ballet is a partner company and the RBS is a partner school of the Prix de Lausanne and as such, they must offer places to one student at the school and one dancer in the company for a year if any of the winners choose them as options. While they are bound by the rules of the partnership to offer only these places, they sometimes take an additional prize winner into the school if more than one has chosen the RBS and they like that candidate. Furthermore, they sometimes spot other dancers that they like and take them as well.

Here is the list of finalists: 106 - HUANG Crystal, United States, 15.3 yo 111 - DOBRIN Nali, Romania, 15.5 yo 122 - LEE Wongyeon, South Korea, 16.6 yo 123 - PARK E-Eun, South Korea, 16.6 yo 201 - DOS SANTOS SILVA João Pedro, Brazil, 15.2 yo 207 - TOSHIDA Taichi, Japan, 15.8 yo 211 - WEBER Léo, France, 16.10 yo 212 - ZHANG Desihan, P.R. China, 16.10 yo 302 - STEELE Natalie, United States, 17.2 yo 307 - KIM Jioh, South Korea, 17.7 yo 313 - DAY Ruby, Australia, 17.10 yo 315 - KOBAYASHI Airi, Japan, 18.4 yo 317 - LIVELLARA VIDART Paloma, Argentina, 18.5 yo 318 - KANG Yujeong, South Korea, 18.7 yo 407 - SCHILLACI Giuseppe, Italy, 17.6 yo 408 - WILLEY Carson, United States, 17.6 yo 411 - BLIGHT Jenson, Australia, 17.7 yo 415 - LIMA SANTONS Martinho, Portugal, 17.11 yo 417 - FEDELE-MALARD Juliann, France, 18.1 yo 431 - HORI Takafumi, Japan, 18.11 yo

This year, 4 girls and 1 boy entered from the UK but were not selected to compete in the live rounds in Lausanne. I don't know anything about who these candidates are, whether they're studying at UK schools or abroad, or are private candidates. The RBS have previously stated that they don't enter their students for competitions because of timetabling constraints. I don't think schools are shying away from competing, but the structure of the British education system and the pacing of training at dance schools in the UK make it difficult to participate in competitions such as this one. To enter in the younger category, students must be 15 or 16 years old, so year 10 or 11 at school. Most would not want to enter in year 10 and leave school without doing GCSEs, and year 11 students are auditioning for upper schools as well as juggling GCSE's, so difficult for vocational schools to prepare for this as well. Furthermore, I imagine that vocational schools would want to "showcase" their most talented students at a competition like this if they did enter, and might not be keen to prepare them, only for them to then go off to another school! Upper school courses in the UK are generally 3 years long starting at age 16 with the aim of having the student ready for employment at 19/ 20. In the older age category, students must be 17 or 18 to compete, meaning that they would be in their first or second years of upper school (and at the time of application would have only just started their first or second year) so may not be ready for a professional contract (which is what they're competing for) at that time. In many other countries, students complete their training at an earlier age.

Alumnae is correct for an all female group, but in the context of your post alumni is correct since DB is one of a mixed group of graduates and we assume that both male and female candidates will be considered for the role. While I'm fond of Darcey Bussell, I don't think she'd be the best candidate for this role. Unrelated to the above comment, I would like to see more of a link between the upper and lower schools. This is something that has been spoken about often in the past and I believe was one of the goals of the outgoing director, but I'd like to a big change towards training the students at WL to be the kind of dancers the upper school wants.

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The list of selected candidates has been announced: selected-candidates-2024.pdf (prixdelausanne.org) None of the 5 British entries were selected but there is a Portuguese boy who trains at English National Ballet School. Info on the number of candidates can be found here: nombre-de-candidats-pdl-2024.pdf (prixdelausanne.org)

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It's worth noting that some schools will take a 17 year old into the first year of their course while others will only consider them for second year or whichever year corresponds to their age. In the latter scenario it is much more difficult to gain a place due to the much smaller number of places available and the fact that the candidate would have to have somehow attained the standard of others from that school who had already received a full year of training.

Yes, please message me! Attending a short course is definitely the best option to start with. I think they're only for a week now (although you can attend more than one week) and while it is also possible to arrange a private audition, the short courses give you a taste of what it is like to live there. Some people find the environment very difficult because it is so intense, others love it. At my time, we had to attend for a whole month to be considered for entry which not only gave the school the possibility to observe candidates over a longer period in class but also for them and us to see how we adapted to the environment. Consider also how you will handle academic work.

I went to this school, what would you like to know? Has your son/ daughter already been offered a place?

I assume you are talking about a local, private dance studio. It really depends what your agreement is with them and how often you usually pay. Some schools require a notice period, others don't. Here it is standard to sign up for and pay for either a whole year in advance or a half year. One year, we paid for the whole year up front because it cost less than two half years and after three classes our DD got sick with pneumonia for which she was off for 4 weeks, then she had some complications which caused pain in her legs so she went back for one more lesson then couldn't continue, so we basically paid a years worth of fees for 4 lessons. I hope your school would be supportive in your case and carry the fees over. I understand the perspective of their costs being the same but in many cases, classes are not full to capacity so one student less would not usually make the class financially unviable to run.