Canadian awarded Prix de Lausanne 2013

 

Cesar Corrales / Photo by Gregory Batardon, courtesy of Prix de Lausanne 

>> by Naomi Brand

Canadian Cesar Corrales has been awarded the Prix de Lausanne 2013, an international ballet competition for dancers ages fifteen through eighteen. The forty-first edition of the competition, which takes place annually in Switzerland, had seventy-five candidates and eight finalists who won scholarships to one of the twenty-eight Prix de Lausanne partner schools around the world. Corrales began dancing at age four and has performed with The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and played the title role in the stage show Billy Elliot. He is sixteen years old and currently lives in Montréal.