Prix de Lausanne announces selected candidates for 2026, gives Sylvie Guillem lifetime achievement award

Prix de Lausanne announced the names of the selected candidates for its 2026 competition on 30th October 2025.

The organiser received video applications from 444 applicants, 339 girls and 105 boys, from 43 countries. Of which, 73 dancers, 37 girls and 36 boys, have been selected while eight candidates had already been preselected, its website said.

Total of 81 aspiring dancers will participate in the Prix de Lausanne 2026 in 1st-8th February in Lausanne, Switzerland. Congratulations!

Click here for the full list.

Separately, Prix de Lausanne announced Sylvie Guillem as the recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award 2026.