Aubrey Daniels, a 15-year-old pupil in Pearland ISD, will certainly take a trip to Switzerland early following year to complete in the distinguished Prix de Lausanne, a global dancing competitors that picked its 2025 individuals from 22 nations around the globe.
It’s the very first time in 9 years that a Houston-area ballerina has actually been chosen to take part.
” I’m so delighted to be there due to the fact that since I was a youngster I have actually enjoyed the Prix de Lausanne like exactly how individuals see the Olympics, and to be chosen and dance on that particular identical phase is so unique to me,” Daniels stated.
Daniels is just one of 86 young professional dancers throughout the globe to be chosen for the 53rd yearly occasion, which includes professional dancers in between the ages of 15-18. She is educating 20 hours weekly– in addition to her hectic course timetable at Dawson Senior high school– to plan for the competitors in February.
Unlike numerous young ballerinas, Daniels mosts likely to college permanent. She takes sophisticated positioning and pre-AP courses and works as the pupil ambassador to Pearland ISD’s superintendent.
Scholarships and instructions will certainly be granted to pick professional dancers in Lausanne, consisting of placements with the Royal Dancing, American Dancing Movie Theater and the Paris National Sunroom of Songs and Dancing. Daniels is enthusiastic she’ll have the ability to land among those 9 areas.
” I’m wishing to end up being an expert ballerina at either a united state or European ballet firm,” she stated. “However I understand my life is not mosting likely to be one-dimensional. I still have an interest in something in the clinical area too.”
The Prix de Lausanne is arranged for Feb. 2-9 in Lausanne, Switzerland.