Japan Preselection Jury

For the very first time, the Prix de Lausanne is organising a Preselection round in Japan to allow a few Japanese dancers to get the chance to be selected for our 2023 competition. This event will take place in Hyogo (Japan) on October 1^st and 2^nd, 2023.

The 50 Japanese young dancers enrolled for this Preselection event will be evaluated and marked by a Jury made of the following renowned professionals:

• Kathryn Bradney
  Artistic & Executive Director of the Prix de Lausanne, former Principal dancer and ballet master of the Béjart Ballet Lausanne
• Shoko Nakamura
  Prix de Lausanne Prize Winner 1996 / Honorary Principal Dancer, K Ballet Company (Tokyo, Japan)
  
• Toru Shimazaki
  Freelance Choreographer & Directing Professor of The Dance Program in the Music Department of Kobe Jogakuin College (Japan)
• Dominique Genevois
  Former soloist of Maurice Béjart’s Ballet du XX siècle in Brussels & Professor of classical dance at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lyon
• Etienne Frey
  International Choreographer & Freelance Dance Teacher / Gold Medalist and Alicia Alonso Prize (1997) / Nijinsky Prize (2001)

“It is my pleasure to organise the first Prix de Lausanne preselection in Japan. I am looking forward to this new collaboration in a country that I admire very much and to promote the art of dance towards dedicated and talented young dancers in Japan.”

Kathryn Bradney, Prix de Lausanne’s Artistic & Executive Director.