Partner School Choreographic Project

During the 2025 Prix de Lausanne, 26 dancers from our partner schools came together to create Our Common Fate, an original piece by choreographer Jessica Lang, developed over the course of a single week. The students spent eight intensive days working closely with Lang and her team to learn and rehearse this unique work.

Our Common Fate was presented three times during the week: as an open rehearsal at the Choreographic Evening on Wednesday, in its world premiere on Saturday during the Interlude of the Finals, and finally at the Prix de Lausanne’s closing performance, Rising Stars.

Title of the piece Our Common Fate

Artistic Team

• Choreographer Jessica Lang
• Assistant choreographer Kanji Segawa
• Music David Lang
• Light designer Zeynep Kepekli

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

During the 2024 edition of the Partner School Choreographic Project, the 25 partner students worked on an original piece with Kinsun Chan. The piece was performed during the “Soirée Chorégraphique” on Wednesday, 31 February 2024 and during the Finals’ Interlude on Saturday, 2 February 2024. For the first time, the PSCP was performed on stage during our Rising Stars closing event on Sunday, 4 February 2024.

Title of the piece: SCHRäääG

Artistic Team:

• Kinsun Chan: Choreographer
• Aurélie Gaillard and Juliette Rahon: Assistants to the choreographer
• Christian Kass: Light designer
• Daniel Steffen and Hans-peter Pfammatter: Composers

Dancers:

After a couple of years without being able to continue this beautiful project because of the pandemic, the Partner School Choreographic Project came back in 2023!

For this edition of the Choreographic Project, we worked with the choreographer Goyo Montero. In just one week, he created “BOLD” for and with 24 students from our Partner Schools. We discovered the results of their one-week work during the Interlude of the Prix de Lausanne Finals, on 4 February, 2023!

Artistic Team:

• Goyo Montero: Choreographer
• Owen Belton: Composer
• Claudio Frasseto: Pianist
• Margaux Manns: Costume designer

In 2020, for the 3^rd edition of the Choreographic Project, the choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti has created “Andante Ballabile” for and with 26 students from our Partner Schools. We discovered the results of their one-week work during the Interlude of the Prix de Lausanne Finals, on February 8^th, 2020!

Artistic Team:

• Mauro Bigonzetti: Choreographer
• Macha Daudel: Assistant to the choreographer
• Carlo Cerri: Light designer

That year, the project was supported by an anonymous donor, the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation, the Friends of the Prix de Lausanne, Dance West and the Fairmont Le Montreux Palace.

In 2019, for the 2^nd edition of the project, it is with the Dutch choreographer Didy Veldman that 26 dancers met in Lausanne to create a new piece, Is to Be (music from Arvo Pärt, Tabula Rasa). The dancers then performed their work during the Interlude on Saturday 9^th February, 2019 as a world premiere!

Artistic Team

• Didy Veldman: choreographer
• Estela Merlos: Assistant to the Choreographer
• Ben Ormero: light designer
• Arvo Pärt: music composer for Tabula Rasa
  

For the first time in 2018, the Prix de Lausanne Partner Schools have been invited to send two of their best students to Lausanne to create a one-of-a-kind collaboration. For this first edition of the project, 50 students from all around the world came to Lausanne to learn an original piece (Pulse) created by the renowned choreographer Goyo Montero.

Artistic Team

• Goyo Montero: choreographer
• Carlos Lazaro: assistant to the Choreographer
• Owen Belton: music composer for Pulse