August 2010

August 31st, first day for all the students.

8h00 - 9h00 Welcome and meeting with first and second years students
9h00 - 10h45 Ballet class with Mister Azari Plissetski, Miss Anne Vadagnin, pianist
11h00 - 12h30 Ryhtms and percussions for the first year students / Modern dance for the second year students
12h45 - 14h15 Modern dance for the first year students / Ryhtms and percussions for the second year students
14h15 - 15h00 Lunch breack
15h00 - 16h30 Kendo
16h30 Registrations

July 2010

3 July, Performance in Prilly, Switzerland with Repertory dances, personnal works, hip-hop, theater pieces, chorus, percussions and kendo.

End of the school year.

Vacation period from July 3rd to August 30th. First day on August 31st at 8:00

4 July, 15 students travel to Montpellier-France to dance with the Bejart Ballet Company : "Le concours" (July 6th and 7th).

Ten students will work in August with the Music Conservatory of Lausanne : "Don Giovani" music, singing and dance.

June 2010

The teachers and the direction announced their decisions concerning the second years admissions.
Admitted students are :
Girls : Anaïs De Raemy, Suzanne FARDEL, Kana MABUCHI, Kathleen MACCLURE, Lore PRISZO.
Boys : Marc BEAUGENDRE, Sylvain BOUVIER, Rémy ISENMANN, Luke PRUNTY, Alessio SANNA, Denovane VICTOIRE.
Admitted students with a three month testing period: Adeline GUILLEMOT, Aurélie PATRIARCA, Louison SOMON, Alexandre JUILLET, Geoffroy POPLAWSKI, Dmitry ZELENKO.

June 27th : Presentation at the end of the theater's masterclass with Mister Jorge Sada, Brazil.

June 17th : "Palais de Beaulieu" Theater

We performed with orchestra, musicians from the " Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne" and the " Music Conservaotry of Singapur". Our students created themself all the choreographies.
On the programme : "Sonates" from Ginastera, Britten, Poulenc and Shostakowitch, and "David and Goliath", a special musical creation from Guy-François Leuenberger for the Rudra students.
We offered this performance to all the Rudra's sponsors and friends.

We will perform on saturday 12th in the theater " Halles de Sierre " Switzerland, Valais. This performance is a kind of tribute to Mister Philippe Branschweig who created in 1973 the international competition " Prix de Lausanne" (the first winner of this competition was Michel Gascard).
Mister Branschweig took also part of the group who invited Maurice Béjart to come in Lausanne in 1987.
The performance " I remember you" is invited by Miss Cilette Faust dance academy in Sierre.

All the students begin a new three weeks theater masterclass with Mister Jeorge Sada, teacher of the brazilian theater academy of Curitiba.

May 2010

We are working on an exceptionnal performance with two international music schools : The "Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne" and the "Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music de Singapour".
Their teachers and students will play live for the Rudra student's creations.
Our students will present the choreographies they creat these last two month.
We will perform in the "Palais de Beaulieu theater" in Lausanne, on the 17th of June.

Mister Julio Arozarena ( Béjart Ballet Cie) is teaching the girl's ballet class.
Mister Michel Gascard is teaching the boy's ballet class.

April 2010

Mister Serguey Soloviev, ex-first dancer of the Bolchoï Dance cie is teaching the ballet class this week.

We ask the students to produce their own creations. Every day, the studios are open until 21:00 to help them to work alone or by groups. Every week-end, they present their work to the director Michel Gascard who help and correct if necessary.
The best works will be in the next performance of the school.

Mister Selatin Kara, choreographer, ex-dancer of Michael Jackson is teaching during three weeks. He will create a ballet for the next school's performance.

March 28th

End of the traditionnal indian dance masterclass.
Presentation front of the school's director and all the teachers.

The students, Shantala Shivalingapa ( on the right side ) and Adtmananda ( on the left side).

20 and 21 March Auditions for International Students

The following candidates have been accepted for entry on 31 August 2010:

BOYS

1 - ANTONIOLI Joele, Italian, 17 years old - CONFIRMED
2 - BATANGAN Jarin, American, 18 years old - CONFIRMED
3 - CASADO SUAREZ Francisco Javier, Spanish, 17 years old - CONFIRMED
4 - DEMONT Alexandre, French, 19 years old - CONFIRMED
5 - FILIP Christian, Rumanian, 19 years old - CONFIRMED
6 - GALIOTTO Mattia Riccardo, Italian, 18 years old - CONFIRMED
7 - GARBO Filiberto, Italian, 17 years old - CONFIRMED
8 - KURIYAMA Ren, Japanese, 17 years old - CONFIRMED
9 - MAGER Dimitri, French, 18 years old - CONFIRMED
10 - LEVEBVRE Réginald, French, 17 years old - CONFIRMED
11 - MARSEGLIA Gabriel, Italian, 18 years old - CONFIRMED
12 - MOREAU Alain, French, 15 years old - CONFIRMED
13 - PANIAGUA Sullivan, French, 18 years old - CONFIRMED
14 - PRATALI Valentino-Kook, Swiss, 15 years old - CONFIRMED
15- TIMPA Vincenzo, Italian, 17 years old - CONFIRMED

GIRLS

1 - ANDRAL Manon, French, 16 years old - CONFIRMED
2 - BLOM Jenny, Norway ( 3 month testing period )
3 - BOURDAIS Sandra, French, 17 years old - CONFIRMED
4 - BRANDI Lara, Italian, 16 years old - CONFIRMED
5 - FORREST Amelia, Dutch, 16 years old - CONFIRMED
6 - FRANKE Vanessa, French, 18 years old - CONFIRMED
7 - FURUUCHI Maiko, Japanese, 18 years old - CONFIRMED
8 - LANDREAU Charlotte, French, 17 years old - CONFIRMED
9 - LOPEZ DE LAS HERAS Magarita, Spanish, 17 years old - CONFIRMED
10 - ODIET Juliette, Swiss, 17 years old - CONFIRMED
11 - PUENTES Wilma, Spanish, 17 years old - CONFIRMED
12 - RAPIN Mohana, Swiss, 18 years old - CONFIRMED
13 - SARGENT Lauren, Australian, 17 years old - CONFIRMED
14 - SCOTTO Marina, French, 19 years old - CONFIRMED

March 2010

On March 9th we will be beginning a new masterclass of traditional Indian dance called Kuchipdli. At the end of the three-week work period, all the students will dance a choreographic presentation. Our guest teacher is Miss Shantala Shivalingapa, assisted by Miss Atmananda Talavidya.

All the students are working on Le Concours, a ballet created by Maurice Bejart.  Some will subsequently be selected by Gil Roman to dance in a number of Béjart Ballet Company performances.

January - February 2010

All the students are starting work on Tchekhov au bois dormant, a ballet created by Maurice Béjart for his Rudra School in 2007. For the time being everyone is learning all the roles and working with great enthusiasm on the classic Sleeping Beauty variations!
We will have different castings for our future shows so that as many students as possible can have the opportunity to dance this marvellous ballet.

Katalyn Csarnoy, a former solo dancer with the 20th Century Ballet Company, gives the classical dance lessons: every morning a 1 hour 45-minute lesson, a class for boys and a Pointe class.

December 2009

All the students attended a masterclass in Horton’s modern dance technique, taught by Max Luna III.All the students attended a masterclass in Horton’s modern dance technique, taught by Max Luna III.

November 2009

Selatin Kara, a choreagrapher and ex-dancer for Michael Jackson, Madonna, Carlos Santana, Lenny Kravitz, Ricky Martin and others, gave three weeks of masterclasses in show techniques (jazz, hip-hop, etc.).  A presentation of the class work was given on Sunday, 22nd November.

October 2009

Katalyn Csarnoy, ex-dancer of the ‘Ballet du XXième siècle’ (Ballet of the 20th Century) company, gave one week of classical dance lessons.

September 2009

School started again on September 1st.

Once the first-year students had been welcomed by their second-year ‘buddies’, they all had their first classical dance lesson together, with Azari Plissetski. This was followed by Modern Dance lessons with Tancredo Tavares and Percussion with Thierry Hochstaetter.  In the afternoon, students tried out the Kendo equipment, and later parents arrived for the student registration formalities.  As from day two, classes were back to normal and included Classical, Modern, Percussion, Singing, Pas de Deux and Kendo.