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2026 EDITION

The public final will take place on Saturday June 6, 2026 at the Théâtre de la Gare du Midi in Biarritz.

The call for entries is open until September 30, 2025.

The finalists will benefit from two days of training to support their project. 

As in the first four editions, the jury will be made up of the 3 directors of the Ballets organizing the Competition. They will be joined by leading figures from the world of academic dance and ballet. 

Jury

Bruno Bouché

Artistic Director CCN - Ballet de l'Opéra national du Rhin

Thierry Malandain

Director and choreographer of the CCN Malandain Ballet Biarritz

Eric Quilleré

Director of Dance at the Opéra National de Bordeaux

Prices

2 commissions for creation and dissemination

Each winner will be able to choreograph a 20-minute piece for 10 to 20 dancers during a month-long residency at the Ballet of the Bordeaux National Opera or the CCN-Ballet of the Opéra national du Rhin.

Each ballet provides its own dancers, a rehearsal studio and the necessary staff to welcome the dancers, and takes charge of costume and accessory manufacture, as well as lighting design (no or minimal scenery).

Each creation will be presented in Bordeaux and in the official season of the CCN/Ballet l'Opéra national du Rhin (Strasbourg, Mulhouse, Colmar) … with the Ballets and their partners covering the costs of the stage sets and the promotion of the evenings. In each city, the host Ballet can complete the programme.

Biarritz Prize 

A prize of €15,000 will be awarded to the candidate by the grand jury at the finals. 

The professionnels Prize / Fondation pour la Danse Thierry Malandain Académie des beaux-arts 

The dance critics and theater directors present at the final will vote to award one of the finalists the Prix des professionnels, endowed with €5,000 by the Fondation pour la Danse Thierry Malandain - Académie des beaux-arts.

Audience Prize  

Invited to vote at the end of the competition, the spectators present at the final will award the choreographer of their choice the ‘Audience prize’ worth €3,000. 

Young Audience Prize - Pass Culture

In partnership with Pass Culture*, a jury of 9 young people aged 18-20 will award the €1,000 prize. 

*The Culture Pass is a general interest scheme that gives all young people access to a catalogue of a wide range of cultural offers and venues via a free, geolocated application, as well as a budget of €20 (for 15 year olds), €30 (for 16 and 17 year olds) and €300 (for 18 year olds, valid for two years), to intensify and diversify their cultural and artistic activities. 
With the Culture Pass, young people aged between 15 and 20 can enjoy a wide range of cultural activities on their own: learning more about or taking up an artistic activity, enjoying cultural venues (cinemas, theatres, theatres, museums, etc.), buying cultural goods (books, comics, vinyl, musical instruments, etc.), experiencing new things, or inviting friends to share a cultural discovery (‘duo’ offers). 
3.3 million young people have already benefited from the Culture Pass since its creation. At the same time, a collective section, part of the Artistic and Cultural Education (EAC) policy and the fruit of a close partnership between the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education and Youth, as well as the Ministries of the Sea, the Army and Agriculture, is allocated directly to schools. Each class, from 6e to Terminale, is allocated a credit of 25 euros on average per pupil, intended to finance artistic and cultural education activities carried out in groups and supervised by teachers.