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Mackenzie Brown and Daichi Ikarashi Win the 2023 Erik Bruhn Prize

The esteemed Erik Bruhn Prize competition took place this past Saturday, March 25, and this year’s winners are Stuttgart Ballet soloist Mackenzie Brown and Royal Ballet artist Daichi Ikarashi; Stuttgart Ballet artist in residence Roman Novitzky won the Choreographic Prize for his contemporary duet, A Dialog. The annual competition, created in 1988 in honor of […]

Kyra Laubacher

Antonio Casalinho stands in a wide stance and holds Margarita Fernandes by the waist with his right hand, looking down at her and smiling. She faces slightly in to him, leaning slightly back into his hand as she presses over her left foot on pointe and extends her right leg out in croisé. She wears a green leotard and patterned green and black skirt and pink tights and shoes, and looks toward the camer with a bright smile, her arms down at her sides. Casalinho is shirtless and wears black tights and black ballet slippers.

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Onstage in front of a black backdrop, Roman Novitzky, Mackenzie Brown and Daichi Ikarashi stand together as prizewinners, each holding a large bouquet of flowers. They stand and smile toward the audience, Brown's right hand extended in thanks. Behind them, artistic directors and other competitors watch and applaud.

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Mackenzie Brown and Daichi Ikarashi Win the 2023 Erik Bruhn Prize

Kyra Laubacher

Cassandra Trenary and Daniel Camargo pose together as Tita and Pedro from "Like Water for Chocolate." Trenary, shown from the back, wears a blue striped skirt as her bare chest faces Camargo, who embraces her from behind. He wears light blue trousers. Their arms interlock in a knot-like shape, heads tilted as if preparing for a passionate kiss. A rusty red backdrop is behind them.

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In front of a pitch black background, a female dancer in a sleek black turtleneck and fashionable hat (black, round top, with a white sash around the middle) that covers her eyes poses behind a black chair. She is shown chest-up and her body is turned sideways as she turns her chin toward the camera, a sly look on her face. She wears bright red lipstick, large pearl earrings and eight stacked pearl necklaces.

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In a performance space lit with green and purple lights against a dark background, two female dancers on pointe perform together. On the left, the first dancer stands on pointe in a flat arch backward, her right leg extended forward in a layout, arms overhead, as her partner does a deep lunge and supports holds on to her arms to give support.

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In this black and white photo, Iain Mackay, a ballet teacher, is shown working with a young female student as she poses in first arabesque. He stands behind her and uses his hands to lengthen her leg and front arm. Four other ballet students stand behind them and to their left, watching. The dancers wear pink tights, ballet slippers, leotards and ballet skirts. Mackay is wearing a black T-shirt and black athletic pants.

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In this black and white photo, a balerina in a knee-length tutu stands at the bottom of a stairwell, holding onto the handrail and looking down at it. She stands in a pool of bright light under an archway, and in the background is another staircase perpendicular to the archway.

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A ballerina in a red knee-length, Spanish style tutu, pink tights and pointe shoes does a saut de chat with her arms in high fifth. She holds a black fan in her right hand and looks up triumphantly as she jumps. Behind her onstage, six dancers wearing peasant costumes clap their hands up hig as they watch her.

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Sirui Liu and Joshua Stayton perform the grand pas de deux from The Nutcracker onstage. Liu poses in an attitude derriere on pointe, leaning off of her right leg and bending her upper body to the right as Stayton holds her waist with his right hand. She ewars a purple tutu, pink tights, pointe shoes and a tiara, while Stayton wears a white top with lacy collar, a red sash, red knee-length knickers and white tights.

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