Awards and Professional Placements

Students of Ballettschule Theater Basel have received contracts in the following companies:

• American Ballet Theater Studio Company
• Ballett Semper Oper Dresden
• Royal Danish Ballet
• Finnish National Ballet
• Los Angeles Ballet
• San Francisco Ballet Trainee Programm
• Tokyo Ballet
• Dutch National Ballet Trainee Programm
• Scapino Ballet
• Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf
• Ballett Nürnberg
• Oldenburgisches Staatstheater
• Ballet National de Marseille
• Latvian National Opera and Ballet
• Ballet of the Opera Haus Graz
• Croatian National Ballet
• St. Louis Ballett U.S.A.
• Ballet Junior Geneva
• Zürich Junior Ballett
• Ballett Basel

Students of Ballettschule Theater Basel have won prices and awards at the following competitions:

Melanie Kämpfen

• Recipient of the Migros Kulturprozent Scholarship for Dance 2020 – 2021

Matei Holeleu

• Prize Winner and “Best Swiss Candidate” Prix de Lausanne (where he has been offered a contract with English National Ballet)

Yazmin Verhage

• 2. Place at the final of the “Youth America Grand Prix” in New York 2019 (were she has been offered a contract with the Semperoper and the West Australian Ballet)

Lukas Bareman                 

• «Best Swiss Candidate» Prix de Lausanne 2018

• Youth America Grand Prix 2017 – Paris – 2nd Prize Contemporary

• Minerva Scholarship Award 2017

Francesco Fasano

• Youth America Grand Prix New York 2018 – Top 10

• Youth America Grand Prix Paris 2017 – 1 Prize Classical and Contemporary

• Minerva Scholarship Award 2017

Mikiya Kakehashi  

• Youth America Grand Prix 2017 Paris – 2nd Prize Classical

• Youth America Grand Prix Paris 2016 – 3rd prize Classical

Amyra Badro                     

• Minerva Scholarship Award 2017

Guido Sarnataro              

• Youth America Grand Prix Paris 2016 – 1st Prize

• Youth America Grand Prix, New York, 2015

Alecia Gouveia                

• Youth America Grand Prix, New York, 2015

Valentina Volci

• Recipient of the Migros Kulturprozent Scholarship for Dance 2013-2014

Marie Courtier                   

• Recipient of the Migros Kulturprozent Scholarship for Dance 2013-2014

Julie Diethelm                   

• Recipient of the Migros Kulturprozent Scholarship for Dance 2012-2013, 2013-2014

Sidney Turtschi                  

• Recipient of the Migros Kulturprozent Scholarship for Dance 2011 – 2012, 2012 – 2013

Salome Füger                    

• Recipient of the Migros Kulturprozent Scholarship for Dance 2012 – 2013

Sara Leuenberger            

• Recipient of the Migros Kulturprozent Scholarship for Dance 2010 – 2011, 2011 – 2012

Philip Handschin               

• Participant of the Prix de Lausanne 2010

Takahito Kamimura         

• Participant of the Prix de Lausanne 2009

Sarah Schoch                   

• Recipient of the Migros Kulturprozent Scholarship for Dance 2009 – 2010

Piergiorgio Regazzo        

• Gold Medal – Competition Sitges Spain 2009