2 Min Read LAUSANNE (Reuters) - In a normal year, the dozens of teenaged ballet dancers eyeing the prestigious Prix de Lausanne award would leap in from all across the world to the Swiss city to compete beneath the bright lights of the theatre. Slideshow ( 4 images ) With COVID-19 restrictions, dancers are showing pre-recorded routines on a flat screen instead, before socially distanced judges in a hotel ballroom, with no live audience. Donning black masks, the nine judges scribble notes on desks as they watch Maia Rose Roberts, 16, from Britain go through a ballet class on her own. Nicolas Le Riche, a former Paris Opera Ballet etoile, or principal dancer, saw no major difference from judging live performances and said he felt moved at “discovering the dancers through the screen.”