The internal promotion competition of the Paris Opera Ballet, whose organizational procedures have been defined by the direction in close collaboration with the dancers’ representatives for the 2025/26 season, will take place on Monday, November 3, and Tuesday, November 4, 2025, on the stage of the Palais Garnier.

Each candidate will perform before the jury a compulsory variation, chosen from three options representing different styles, as well as a free variation.

This new format is intended to encourage broader participation among the dancers and to showcase the diversity of their backgrounds, talents, and artistic sensibilities.

• 2 female positions for Première Danseuse
  
  
• 2 female Sujet positions
• 2 male Sujet positions
  
  
• 2 female Coryphée positions
• 3 male Coryphée positions

The jury will be composed of members representing the Paris Opera direction and members representing the Ballet artists.

Quadrilles
 

• La Bayadère, Act II, Gamzatti's variation,
  choreography by Rudolf Nureyev after Marius Petipa
  
  
• or Giselle, Act I, Giselle's variation,
  choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, adapted by Patrice Bart and Eugène Polyakov
  
  
• or Signes, second tableau « Loire du matin », principal dancer's solo,
  choreography by Carolyn Carlson.

Coryphées
 

• Sylvia-pas de deux,
  choreography by George Balanchine 
  
  
• or Suite en blanc, Sérénade,
  choreography by Serge Lifar 
  
  
• or Vaslaw,
  choreography by John Neumeier.

Sujets
 

• Suite en blanc, La cigarette,
  choreography by Serge Lifar
  
  
• or Casse-Noisette, Act II, Louise's variation,
  choreography by John Neumeier
  
  
• or Le Sacre du Printemps, solo de l'Élue,
  choreography by Maurice Béjart

Quadrilles

• The Sleeping Beauty, Act II, The Hunt, 1^st variation of the Prince,
  choreography by Rudolf Nureyev after Marius Petipa
  
  
• or Onegin, Act II, Lensky’s variation,
  choreography by John Cranko
  
  
• or Body and Soul, Act II, Hugo Marchand’s solo,
  choreography by Crystal Pite

Coryphées

• Suite en blanc, The Mazurka,
  choreography by Serge Lifar
  
  
• or Sylvia, Act III, Aminta’s variation,
  choreography by Manuel Legris
  
  
• or Vaslaw,
  choreography by John Neumeier