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 Spotlight - Yuriko Kajiya
Each month we highlight a Prix de Lausanne-related international dance artist.Name: Yuriko Kajiya Birthplace: Nagoya, Japan Training: Shanghai Ballet School Prix de Lausanne: Prix de Lausanne Scholarship 2000 Previous companies/positions: Soloist American Ballet Theatre Favorite roles/choreographies: It is very hard to pick a favourite role. I look at each new role or choreography as a question. It is the pursuit of those questions through rehearsals and performances where I am able to grow as a dancer. Each new question is my favourite. Career highlight: Performing each year at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in New York. And working with my beloved coach Irina Kolpakova on a daily basis. Message to the Prix de Lausanne candidates: I know Prix de Lausanne is a competition and everyone goes there hoping to win. From my own experience, winning is not everything. I now have so many friends all around the world dancing in different companies through the Prix de Lausanne. I don’t think the goal should be to become a competition winner but to become a working dancer with a career. The Prix de Lausanne will help guide you towards this goal.Message to the Prix de Lausanne organisation: |
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Everything began to take shape in the spring of 1972, not on the shores of Lake Léman, but beside a swimming pool in Cannes. Philippe Braunschweig, his wife Elvire, and Rosella Hightower were excitedly discussing their new project, the launch of the first competition for young dancers, scheduled for 1973.
