invisiblecircus Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 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) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerfuffle Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 No British again, I wonder why ? Is it because most serious students are already in full time training? Looks like it would be a good employment finding opportunity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabine0308 Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 After missing out last year, I see again 3 candidates from Monaco's APG (quality screams🙆), and a few from Munich and Dresden. Nice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 1 hour ago, Kerfuffle said: No British again, I wonder why ? Is it because most serious students are already in full time training? Looks like it would be a good employment finding opportunity. Here's last year's (very long) thread which goes over that ground in part: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peanut68 Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 They all seem extremely young mostly…. in the UK (rightly? wrongly?) we tend not to train to the level that a 15-16 year old can produce a principal standard solo from classical repertoire as part of general training… with more emphasis on classes rather than private coaching…. Which route is better for producing successful ballet dancers who can enjoy a long performing career I wonder??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerfuffle Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 I would guess they are used to YAGP which requires perfecting principal solos and some will have done that since they were eight years old ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peanut68 Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 Can’t help but think if you can’t beat ‘em then you’re gonna have to join them! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 They are divided into two age groups, with a different list of solos they can chose from which are age appropriate. Winners from the younger group are offered scholarships by renowned schools for further Vocational training, whereas older winners are offered an apprenticeship year in companies. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peanut68 Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 Really don’t understand why the top Uk upper schools are not coaching older students towards this…afterall, they are supposed to be getting them industry ready & if this is a good route in (& you only have tk read the biogs in any RB programme to see how many dancers benefited from PDL) surely it’s a must? Yet schools seem to act hush hush if they do enter one or two favourites.. surely they should want almost a whole year group to at least aspire to enter? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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