LES ETOILES DE BALLET2000 – Cannes, Palais des Festivals

Les Étoiles de Ballet2000, is the Dance Award organized since 2004 by Ballet2000, Europe’s leading international ballet magazine.
A jury made up of 18 renowned dance critics from major international media, all of whom contributors to Ballet2000, draws up a list of nominations selecting new stars of the ballet scene from leading companies of the world, who have distinguished themselves in the course of the past season.

The awardees dance at a gala performance in the Grand Auditorium of the Palais des Festivals, in Cannes. The highlight of the evening is the awarding of the "Irène Lidova Lifetime Achievement Prize", named after the grande dame of dance who was a guiding light for several generations of artists, both in France and around the world, during the second half of the 20th century. Every year this award is bestowed on a dance celebrity whose career has been particularly outstanding.

To date, the following artists have received the "Irène Lidova Lifetime Achievement Prize": Maya Plisetskaya, Alicia Alonso, Rosella Hightower, Violette Verdy and Vladimir Vassiliev.

The following dancers have received the “Étoiles de Ballet2000” Award in the last five years: Alicia Amatriain, Silvia Azzoni, Breno Bittencourt, Federico Bonelli, Alessio Carbone,Beatrice Carbone, Joel Carreño, Céline Cassone,Gabriele Corrado, Jennifer DePalo, Giovanni Di Palma, Olga Esina, Julien Favreau, Lorna Feijóo, Mathilde Froustey, Susanne Grinder, Dorothée Gilbert, Mathias Heimann, Oxana Kitchenko, Daria Klimentova, Miteki Kudo, Anton Korsakov, Vaclav Kunes, Gil Isoart, Nelson Madrigal, Benjamin Millepied, Maurizio Nardi, Simona Noja, Marianela Núñez, Maiko Oishi, Natalia Osipova, Benjamin Pech, Joseph Phillips, Giuseppe Picone, Ivan Popov, Laetitia Pujol, Ana Quaresma, Gustavo Ramírez, e Alexandre Riabko, Kristoffer Sakurai, Aki Saito, Leonid Sarafanov, Rihoko Sato, Dirk Segers, Polina Semionova, Kateryna Shalkina, Vladimir Shishov, Daniil Simkin, Thiago Soares, Alina Somova, Iñaki Urlezaga, Viengsay Valdés, Wim Vanlessen, Shen Wei, Jan-Erik Wilkström, Ivan Vasiliev, Zenaida Yanowsky, Mario Zambrano.