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Choreographic Evening 2026

07 Jan 2026

Don’t miss the annual Choreographic Evening of the Prix de Lausanne, dedicated to our choreographic and educational projects, as well as contemporary dance.

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 Edwaard Liang, created in just one week with 27 dancers from our partner schools, as part of the Partner School Choreographic Project. This evening is not livestreamed, but will be rebroadcast on Friday, 6 February, at 6pm!

The Choreographic Evening will take place on Wednesday, 4 February, at 6pm at the Beaulieu Theatre.

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About the projects

Finals of the Young Creation Award 2026

The 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 4. 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 sixth edition, 61 young choreographers (42 girls and 19 boys) from 19 different partner schools have submitted a variation, out of which 5 were selected.

Ritual
By Max Cowan (Irlande) – School of the Hamburg Ballet
With Quetzalcoatl Flores Cardeña
Music: African Food Truck, Sahara Skyli

Bound to the Unseen
By Isabella Howard (États-Unis) – San Francisco Ballet School
With Asier Bautista Ayora
Music: With Smoke Comes Fire, Roberth Ruth

Duck Lake
By Clara-Maria Oniceag (Roumanie) – Zurich Dance Academy
With Medeea Caplea
Music: Pendulum, Vincent Isler

Noise in Silence
By Anastasiia Protsenko-Herman (Ukraine) – Zurich Dance Academy
With Emaline Ownby
Music: Maroon, Fabien Tell

Tidal
By Kyra Wentzlaff (États-Unis) – School of the Hamburg Ballet
With Paolo Leanza
Music: Melting Glass, Eden Avery

Partner School Choreographic Project 2026

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 Edwaard Liang, who will create a brand-new variation with the 27 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 7, and during our Rising Stars closing event on Sunday, 8 February.

Title of the piece
The Gathering

Artistic Team

Choreographer: Edwaard Liang
Assistant choreographer: Giovanni Villalobos
Music: Oliver Davis
Light designer: Jack Mehler

Dancers

UNCSA: Andrew McGee
Royal Conservatoire Dance The Hague: Anna Invernizzi
New Zealand School of Dance: Annabel Lowe
Hungarian Dance University: Boróka Kosaras
American Ballet Theatre JKO School: Bryson Woody
Acosta Danza Academy: Camila Arranz Viñals
English National Ballet School: Elisha Tan
Escola Artística de Dança Conservatório Nacional: Henrique Palma
Royal Ballet School: Henry Burgess
The School of the Hamburg Ballet: Hlumelo Quiency Ntshangana
Nationale Balletacademie: Isa Vreeman
Zurich Dance Academy: Jana Garcia Oliveras
Royal Swedish Ballet School: Lana Persson
Ballett-Akademie der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München: Luise Hauß
Koninklijke Balletschool Antwerpen: Maëli Duchateau
Oslo National Academy of the Arts: Maia Roman
The Australian Ballet School: Matia Ingrey
Akademy of Dance University for Music and Performing Arts: Milan Kadrok
École de Danse de l’Opéra National de Paris: Nael Dimbas
Boston Ballet School’s Professional Division: Natalie Heldmann
Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet School: Nathaniel Williams
Houston Ballet Academy: Nathaniel Geis
PNSD Rosella Hightower: Paul Cohen
Central School of Ballet: Roman Bafi
Palucca University of Dance Dresden: Serena Hidaka
Academy of Queensland Ballet: Zi Sione
The Royal Danish Ballet School: Louis Honoré