On 31 July 2016 the awardees of this year’s prestigious prize, selected by a jury made up of some of the world’s best-known dance critics and specialists, all of whom contributors to BALLET2000, will be presented to the public and the world of dance at the Grand Auditorium of the Palais des Festivals, Cannes.
Principal dancers and soloists from leading companies will dance at a Gala performance – under the artistic direction of Irma Nioradze, étoile of the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet of St Petersburg – this year commemorating Maya Plisetskaya, the great Russian ballerina who was already a living legend when she passed away last year and who now shines on in ballet history.