20 Jan 2025
Watch the Young Creation Award Finals, where young talents from our partner schools will present their original choreography before the Prix de Lausanne Jury. Enjoy then an exclusive public rehearsal of a new piece by Jessica Lang, created in just one week with 26 dancers from our partner schools, as part of the Partner School Choreographic Project. This evening is not livestreamed, but will be rebroadcast on Friday, 7 February, at 6 pm!
The Choreographic Evening will take place on Wednesday, 5 February, at 6:00 PM at the Beaulieu Theatre.
TicketsThe Young Creation Award is a competition designed for students from the Prix de Lausanne Partner schools and companies. It gives young students a unique opportunity to give a try at choreographic creation and coaching, which is becoming a more and more important part of a dancer’s career. The participants create an original variation on one of their fellow student and submit it via video to the Prix de Lausanne. A video selection takes place, and five finalists are selected to come and present their variation during the Prix de Lausanne.
Each Finalist will present their variation in front of the Prix de Lausanne Jury on Wednesday, February 3. Two winners will be announced at the end of the evening. The two winning choreographies will be added to the competition’s contemporary repertoire 2026.
For this fifth edition, 56 young choreographers (34 girls and 22 boys) from 23 different partner schools have submitted a variation, out of which 5 were selected.
Extinction
By Alexander Mockrish (Sweden) – ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School
With: Caroline Quiner
Music: Etude Nr 1 for String Quartet, Peter Sandberg
Paramnesia
By Hsin Yi Chiu (China) – Palucca University of Dance Dresden
With Anthony Juo
Music: Melting Glass, Eden Avery
Untitled
By Sky Natzke (Portugal) – Zurich Dance Academy
With Timothé Mielle
Music: With Smoke Comes Fire, Roberth Ruth
20 Miles From Shore
By Henry Lichtmacher (United States) – Houston Ballet Academy
With Alex Westerman
Music: The Ballerina, Lars Meyer
I wonder what I look like in your eyes
By Giulia Philips (Portugal) – National Conservatory Dance School Lisbon
With Rita Salazar
Music: Etude Nr 1 for String Quartet, Peter Sandberg
The Partner School Choreographic Project is a choreographic programme that offers some students from our partner schools to come to Lausanne to learn and perform a unique and tailor-made choreography with a renowned choreographer.
This workshop takes place in Lausanne during the Prix de Lausanne main competition, but is not part of the competition. Students who take part in the Choreographic Project are sent by their Schools to live a unique collective and educational experience of choreography creation. During a whole week, they get the chance to meet with young dancers from all over the world, and to work with some of the biggest choreographers of our era. The choreography, set up and staged in only a few days, is then performed in front of the audience during the Prix de Lausanne Finals. This year’s choreographer is Jessica Lang, who will create a brand-new variation with the 26 dancers from our partner schools:
During the Choreographic Evening, you will have the chance to enjoy a public rehearsal of the project. It will be performed during the Finals’ Interlude Performance on Saturday, February 8, and during our Rising Stars closing event on Sunday, February 9..
Title of the piece Our Common Fate
Artistic Team
Dancers
American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School: Jada Bryant
Acosta Dance Academy: Rolando Dieguez Escobar
Academy of Dance – Mannheim: Alba Johanna Boixadós Meinhard
Ballet Academy – University of Music and Performing Arts Munich: Ignacio Ilan Sastre
Boston Ballet School: Kiera Meighan
Canada’s National Ballet School: Marley Burke
Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet School: Adeline Fletcher
Central School of Ballet: Isolde Battier
Dutch National Ballet Academy: Noortje Willemse
Paris Opera Ballet School: Manon Baranger
Houston Ballet Academy: Kieryn Brophy
Hungarian Dance University: Levente Bajusz
Royal Ballet School Antwerp: Lore De Smet
New Zealand School of Dance: Stella Clarkson
Oslo National Academy of the Arts: Saoirse Cameron-Higgs
Palucca University of Dance: Anka Yorimitsu
Pôle National Supérieur de Danse Rosella Hightower: Nina Waelde Lamy
Queensland Ballet Academy: Maya Irimichi
Royal Conservatoire The Hague: Iria Díaz Muñoz
Royal Danish Ballet School: Celine Kalmayer Olsen
Royal Swedish Ballet School: Malvina Kolb
School of the Hamburg Ballet: Yun Lin
National Conservatory Dance School Lisbon: Francisco Godinho
Royal Ballet School: Shani Moran-Simmonds
University of North Carolina School of the Arts: Margaux Beller
Zurich Dance Academy: Elena Stefanetti