Seventeen-year-old Laura Fernandez-Gromova bagged three coveted honours at the 2016 edition of the world-renowned Prix de Lausanne ballet competition. She was one of seven winners of a one-year all-expenses-paid scholarship. Besides the scholarship, she was also joint winner of the Contemporary Dance Prize besides in addition to the Best Swiss Finalist award. Fernandez-Gromova is a student at the Zurich Dance Academy and has been practising ballet since the age of six. Her father is from Spain and her mother is Russian-Ukrainian but Fernandez-Gromova has grown up in Switzerland. A total of 292 candidates (235 girls and 57 boys) representing 36 countries applied in the video selection process of which 67 were invited to compete and 20 were shortlisted for the final. Besides Fernandez-Gromova, the other finalists who won scholarships were Bai Dinkai and Yu Hang from China, Junnosuke Nakamura from Japan, Leroy Mokagtle from South Africa, Vincenzo Di Primo …
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