Benjamin Millepied (born 10 June 1977) is a French dancer and choreographer, who has lived and worked in the United States since joining the New York City Ballet in 1995, where he became a soloist in 1998 and a principal in 2002.

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Berlin State Ballet

The Berlin State Ballet (italic) is the principal ballet company in the German capital of Berlin.

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Berlin State Opera

The Staatsoper Unter den Linden (State Opera under the Lime Trees), also known as the Berlin State Opera (Staatsoper Berlin), is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic center of Berlin, Germany.

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Birmingham Royal Ballet

Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) is one of the five major ballet companies of the United Kingdom, alongside The Royal Ballet, the English National Ballet, Northern Ballet and Scottish Ballet.

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Bruce Sansom

Bruce Edward Sansom (born September 1963) is a British former ballet dancer, and assistant artistic director and ballet master at San Francisco Ballet.

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Carlos Acosta

Carlos Yunior Acosta Quesada (born 2 June 1973) is a Cuban-British ballet director and retired dancer who is director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet.

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Central School of Ballet

Central School of Ballet is a classical ballet school based in London, with students from countries all over the world.

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Christopher Wheeldon

Christopher Peter Wheeldon (born 22 March 1973) is an English international choreographer of contemporary ballet.

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Classical ballet

Classical ballet is any of the traditional, formal styles of ballet that exclusively employ classical ballet technique.

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Cuban National Ballet School

The Cuban National Ballet School (Escuela Nacional Cubana de Ballet) in Havana, with approximately 3,000 students is the biggest ballet school in the world and the most prestigious ballet school in Cuba.

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Darcey Bussell

Dame Darcey Andrea Bussell, (born Marnie Mercedes Darcey Pemberton Crittle; (27 April 1969) is a retired English ballerina and a former judge on the BBC television dance contest Strictly Come Dancing. Trained at the Arts Educational School and the Royal Ballet School, Bussell began her professional career at Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet.

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David Dawson (choreographer)

David Dawson (born 4 March 1972) is a British dancer and choreographer who has received numerous honours and awards for his atmospheric and emotionally physical works.

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David McAllister (dancer)

David Graeme McAllister (born 25 November 1963) is the former artistic director and principal dancer of The Australian Ballet.

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Diana Vishneva

Diana Viktorovna Vishneva (also trans. Vishnyova; Диана Викторовна Вишнёва; born 13 July 1976) is a Russian ballet dancer who performs as a principal dancer with the Mariinsky Ballet (formerly the Kirov Ballet).

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Dutch National Ballet

The Dutch National Ballet (Dutch: Het Nationale Ballet) is the official and largest ballet company in the Netherlands.

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English National Ballet

English National Ballet is a classical ballet company founded by Dame Alicia Markova and Sir Anton Dolin as London Festival Ballet and based in London, England.

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Francia Russell

Francia Russell (born January 10, 1938) is the former co-artistic director of Pacific Northwest Ballet and former director of Pacific Northwest Ballet School, from 1977 to 2005.

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Gillian Murphy

Gillian Murphy (born April 11, 1979) is an American ballet dancer who is a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre.

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Gonzalo Garcia (dancer)

Gonzalo Garcia is a Spanish American ballet dancer.

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Hamburg Ballet

The Hamburg Ballet is a ballet company based in Hamburg, Germany.

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Hannah O'Neill

Hannah O'Neill (born January 8, 1993) is a New Zealand ballet dancer who is an étoile with the Paris Opera Ballet.

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Hee Seo

Hee Seo (born 13 March 1986) is a South Korean ballet dancer who is a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the three leading classical ballet companies in the United States.

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Ivan Putrov

Ivan Oleksandrovych Putrov (Іван Олександрович Путров; born 8 March 1980) is a Ukrainian-born ballet dancer and producer.

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Jean-Christophe Maillot

Jean-Christophe Maillot (born 1960) is a French dancer and choreographer born in Tours.

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Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux

Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux (born 9 April 1943, in Bourg en Bresse, France) is a French ballet dancer and instructor.

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Julie Kent (dancer)

Julie Kent (born Julie Cox, 1969) is an American ballet dancer; she was a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre from 1993 to June 2015.

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Julio Bocca

Julio Adrián Lojo Bocca (born March 6, 1967) is an Argentine ballet dancer.

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K-ballet

K-ballet is a Japanese ballet company.

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Karen Kain

Karen Alexandria Kain (born March 28, 1951) is a Canadian former ballet dancer and was the Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Canada from 2005 to 2021.

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Kathryn Bennetts

Kathryn Bennetts is an Australian former ballet dancer and now artistic director.

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Kay Mazzo

Kay Mazzo (born January 17, 1946) is an American former ballet dancer and educator.

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Laetitia Pujol

Laetitia Pujol (born 8 October 1975) is a French ballet dancer.

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Lausanne

Lausanne (Losena) is the capital and largest city of the Swiss French-speaking canton of Vaud.

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Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo

Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo (The Monte Carlo Ballet) is a classical ballet company established in 1985 by the Princess of Hanover in accordance with the wishes of her mother, Princess Grace of Monaco.

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List of Morphoses productions

Morphoses is a ballet company, co-founded in 2007 by Christopher Wheeldon and Lourdes Lopez.

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Lucinda Dunn

Lucinda Dunn (born 10 December 1973) is an Australian retired ballerina and current Principal Ballet Teacher with Dance North Academy and Ambassador of The Ballet Society.

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Madoka Sugai

Madoka Sugai (菅井円加, Sugai Madoka, born 1994) is a Japanese ballet dancer who is currently a principal dancer with the Hamburg Ballet.

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Marcelo Gomes (dancer)

Marcelo Mourão Gomes (born September 26, 1979) is a Brazilian ballet dancer who performed for two decades with the American Ballet Theatre.

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Maria Kochetkova

Maria Olegovna Kochetkova (Мария Олеговна Кочеткова; born 1984) is a Russian ballet dancer.

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Mariinsky Ballet

The Mariinsky Ballet (Балет Мариинского театра) is the resident classical ballet company of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Marilyn Rowe

Marilyn Patricia Rowe (born 20 August 1946) is the first graduate of the Australian Ballet School to be appointed its director, in 1999.

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Maurice Béjart

Maurice Béjart (1 January 1927 – 22 November 2007) was a French-born dancer, choreographer and opera director who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland.

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Mayara Magri (dancer)

Mayara Magri is a Brazilian ballet dancer.

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Miami City Ballet

Miami City Ballet is an American ballet company based in Miami Beach, Florida, led by artistic director Lourdes Lopez.

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Misa Kuranaga

Misa Kuranaga (Kuranaga Misa, born 1982/1983) is a Japanese ballerina.

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Miyako Yoshida

Miyako Yoshida (吉田都, born 28 October 1965) is a Japanese ballet dancer.

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Montevideo

Montevideo is the capital and largest city of Uruguay.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Nancy Raffa

Nancy Raffa is an American ballet master.

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National Ballet of Canada

The National Ballet of Canada is a Canadian ballet company that was founded in 1951 in Toronto, Ontario, with Celia Franca, the first artistic director.

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National Ballet of China

The National Ballet of China (NBC), known in China as the Central Ballet Troupe was founded on 31 December 1959.

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National Ballet of Portugal

Companhia Nacional de Bailado (CNB), the National Ballet Company of Portugal, was established in Lisbon in 1977 and the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos was its home for the first two decades of its existence.

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National Ballet of Ukraine

National Ballet of Ukraine from the Taras Shevchenko National Opera of Ukraine performs works of classical ballet and tours internationally.

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National Opera of Ukraine

The Kyiv Opera group in Ukraine was formally established in the summer of 1867, and is the third oldest opera in Ukraine, after Odesa Opera and Lviv Opera.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein.

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Pacific Northwest Ballet

Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) is a ballet company based in Seattle, Washington.

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Palais de Beaulieu

Palais de Beaulieu is the historical and emblematic building of the Lausanne convention and exhibition center, located in Lausanne, in the Vaud Canton, Switzerland.

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Paris Opera Ballet

The Paris Opera Ballet is a French ballet company that is an integral part of the Paris Opera.

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Patrick Armand

Patrick Armand is a French retired ballet dancer, and the director of the San Francisco Ballet School since 2017.

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Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre

The Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre is an opera and ballet theatre in the city of Perm in Russia.

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Philanthropy

Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives for the public good, focusing on quality of life".

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Prix Benois de la Danse

The Benois de la Danse is a ballet competition held annually in Moscow. Prix de Lausanne and Prix Benois de la Danse are ballet awards.

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Rake (theatre)

A rake or raked stage is a theatre stage that slopes upwards, away from the audience.

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Rosella Hightower

Rosella Hightower (January 10, 1920 – November 4, 2008) was an American ballerina and member of the Choctaw Nation.

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Royal Ballet of Flanders

The Royal Ballet of Flanders is a dance company based in Antwerp, Belgium, specializing in classical, neoclassical and contemporary ballet.

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Royal Ballet School

The Royal Ballet School is a British school of classical ballet training founded in 1926 by the Anglo-Irish ballerina and choreographer Ninette de Valois.

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Royal Danish Ballet

The Royal Danish Ballet (Danish: Den Kongelige Ballet) is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Danish Theatre in Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Royal Winnipeg Ballet

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is Canada's oldest ballet company and the longest continuously operating ballet company in North America.

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Sae Eun Park

Sae Eun Park(Korean: 박세은, Bak Se Eun) (born December 1989) is a South Korean ballet dancer.

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San Francisco Ballet

San Francisco Ballet is the oldest ballet company in the United States, founded in 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet under the leadership of ballet master Adolph Bolm.

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Scholarship

A scholarship is a form of financial aid awarded to students for further education.

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School of American Ballet

The School of American Ballet (SAB) is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.

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Scottish Ballet

Scottish Ballet is the national ballet company of Scotland and one of the five leading ballet companies of the United Kingdom, alongside the Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Northern Ballet.

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Semperoper

The Semperoper is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Saxon State Opera) and the concert hall of the Staatskapelle Dresden (Saxon State Orchestra).

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Sergei Polunin

Sergei Vladimirovich Polunin (Сергей Владимирович Полунин; Serhiy Volodymyrovych Polunin; born 20 November 1989) is a Ukrainian ballet dancer, actor and model.

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Steven McRae

Steven McRae (born 19 December 1985) is an Australian ballet dancer and tap dancer.

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Stuttgart Ballet

Stuttgart Ballet is a leading German ballet company.

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Swiss franc

The Swiss franc, or simply the franc (Swiss German; franc; franco; franc), is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Tetsuya Kumakawa

is a Japanese ballet dancer and a former principal dancer with the Royal Ballet.

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The Australian Ballet

The Australian Ballet (TAB) is the largest classical ballet company in Australia.

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The Royal Ballet

The Royal Ballet is a British internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet

The Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet is a school of classical ballet in St Petersburg, Russia.

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Viviana Durante

Viviana Durante (born 8 May 1967) is an Italian ballet dancer, considered one of the great dramatic ballerinas of recent times.

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Youth America Grand Prix

Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) is a non-profit international youth ballet and contemporary dance competition and scholarship program established in 1999.

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Yuhui Choe

Yuhui Choe (최유희,崔由姬) is a Korean ballet dancer.

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Yuriko Kajiya

Yuriko Kajiya (加治屋百合子 Kajiya Yuriko, born 1984) is a Japanese ballet dancer who currently performs as a principal dancer with Houston Ballet.

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Zenaida Yanowsky

Zenaida Yanowsky, Lady Keenlyside (born 23 December 1975), is a French-born Spanish ballet dancer and a former principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London.

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Zurich Opera

Zurich Opera (Opernhaus Zürich) is a Swiss opera company based in Zurich.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix_de_Lausanne

Also known as Prix de Lausanne winners.

, Mariinsky Ballet, Marilyn Rowe, Maurice Béjart, Mayara Magri (dancer), Miami City Ballet, Misa Kuranaga, Miyako Yoshida, Montevideo, Moscow, Nancy Raffa, National Ballet of Canada, National Ballet of China, National Ballet of Portugal, National Ballet of Ukraine, National Opera of Ukraine, New York City, New York City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Palais de Beaulieu, Paris Opera Ballet, Patrick Armand, Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre, Philanthropy, Prix Benois de la Danse, Rake (theatre), Rosella Hightower, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Royal Ballet School, Royal Danish Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Sae Eun Park, San Francisco Ballet, Scholarship, School of American Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Semperoper, Sergei Polunin, Steven McRae, Stuttgart Ballet, Swiss franc, Switzerland, Tetsuya Kumakawa, The Australian Ballet, The Royal Ballet, Tokyo, Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, Viviana Durante, Youth America Grand Prix, Yuhui Choe, Yuriko Kajiya, Zenaida Yanowsky, Zurich Opera.

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See also

1973 establishments in Switzerland

Ballet awards

Events in Lausanne

Recurring events established in 1973

References