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Discover the full program for the 25th edition of the Festival de Danse Cannes – Côte d’Azur: from November 22 to December 7, 2025! Let yourself be seduced by the wide range of choreographic offerings. They reflect the diversity of international styles, performances and cultural expressions.

Dance in top shape and upbeat !

The Festival de Danse Cannes – Côte d’Azur pursues its ambition to present the widest possible audience with a highly diversified range of choreographic creation and repertoire.

The 2025 edition is a big one, both in terms of the number of shows on offer and their format. 24 companies, including 13 from abroad – from Spain to South Africa and from the Netherlands to Portugal, via Germany, Italy and Belgium – are offering amateur and professional audiences 50 events.

Of these, 5 world premieres, 5 French premieres and 2 in the South of France will be among the highlights of the year 2025.

The celebration of ballets and great choreographic forms

This ambitious offering is distinguished by the presence of large-scale ballets and companies on stages in Cannes and its partner cities, a sign of the remarkable vitality of this dance form and the enthusiasm it arouses among audiences.

  • For example, the Junior Ballet de l’Opéra National de Paris will be presenting a selection of works from the classical and contemporary repertoires, performed by a new generation of dancers, some of whom may well become future soloists with the Parisian institution.
  • Ballet again with the CCN-Ballet de Lorraine, directed since the beginning of the year by Maud Le Pladec, who was catapulted to fame by the Olympic Games.
  • And theOpéra Grand Avignon Ballet under the direction of Martin Harriague, with a highly original program featuring American choreographers little known in Europe.
  • As for foreign groups, the Festival welcomes Nederlands Dans Theater – NDT 2 and Tanzmainz, who will be performing the great international signatures of today’s and yesterday’s dance world.
  • This prestigious line-up will be complemented by a series of performances imagined by the formidable Spanish dancer Lorena Nogal for the Cannes Jeune Ballet Rosella Hightower, based on Jean-Michel Othoniel ‘s sculptures exhibited at La Malmaison.
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     Popular and traditional practices as a source of contemporary creation

    This year’s Festival also gives pride of place to shows combining dance and live music, as well as to creations inspired by traditional dance forms such as flamenco and fado, infinite and fertile sources for creators.

    A case in point is the opening evening, when Marcos Mauro and the forty magnificent performers of the Ballet National d’Espagne set the Palais des Festivals stage ablaze with Afanador, an extraordinary evocation of the world of flamenco.

    The event will also be delighted to welcome Rocío Molina, the most talented flamenco artist of all time, for her new creation, as well as Portuguese choreographers Jonas and Lander and their sumptuous Bate Fado, performed by a vibrant troupe of dancers, musicians and singers who will immerse the audience in the revisited and burlesque world of Fado.

    The Festival supports choreographic creation

    Another essential marker of the Festival, its commitment to artists and creation, will be embodied in 2025 with five world premieres.

    Companhia Paulo Ribeiro - Avec l'Orchestre national de Cannes - "Louis Lui"
    6Dec
    Companhia Paulo Ribeiro - Avec l'Orchestre national de Cannes - "Louis Lui"
    This is the world premiere of the second part of a musical and choreographic journey in which the body - social, political, sentimental - is the barometer of time.
    Palais des Festivals et des Congrès de Cannes - Théâtre Debussy
    Cie S'Poart Mickaël Le Mer - "Enso"
    30Nov
    Cie S'Poart Mickaël Le Mer - "Enso"
    It was love at first sight for two reasons that led to what the author describes as a challenge: to create a Bolero of his own by questioning a key dance form, from loop to...
    Théâtre Palais Stéphanie, JW Marriott Cannes
    Compagnie Hervé Koubi - "Boys don't cry" / "No Matter"
    30Nov
    Compagnie Hervé Koubi - "Boys don't cry" / "No Matter"
    World premiere presented as part of the celebration of the cooperation agreement for the development of cultural and creative industries between the cities of Cannes and Busan.
    Théâtre de la Licorne
    Compagnie Eugénie Andrin - ‘We're not all Cinderellas"
    2Dec
    Compagnie Eugénie Andrin - ‘We're not all Cinderellas"
    The balance between toe and heel is precarious, but the field of possibilities is exciting. Just like this world premiere, brilliantly directed by the maverick Eugénie Andrin.
    Anthéa - Antipolis Théâtre d'Antibes - Salle Pierre Vaneck
    Lorena Nogal - "The Protagonist"
    2Dec
    Lorena Nogal - "The Protagonist"
    Performances designed especially for the 2025 edition of the Festival.
    Anthéa - Antipolis Théâtre d'Antibes

    And many other artists

    This firework display of discoveries of all kinds includes unclassifiable and delightful artists such as Club Guy and Roni from the Netherlands, the Compagnie d’Anton Lachky from Belgium and the winners of the Italian Prospettiva Danza Teatro competition, as well as South Africa’s Robyn Orlin, accompanied by the group uKhoiKhoi and the Garage Dance Ensemble for a dazzling UFO of dance and song. And let’s not forget Leïla Ka‘s internationally acclaimed Maldonne.

    Attentiveness to youth

    Several of the Festival’s offerings are designed to appeal to all audiences.

    Marion Muzac will have toddlers dancing with Le petit B, while Émilie Lalande creates Le Roi et l’Oiseau, based on Paul Grimault’s film, for slightly older children. Meanwhile, the Ridz-Simonne Rizzo company will be in residency with Cannes middle-school students to share their stepping show.

    An essential meeting point for professionals

    The Festival also features a series of professional events open to the public, in particular the second edition of MOV’IN Cannes, an international competition co-directed with Éric Oberdorff and dedicated to the diversity and creativity of choreographic and cinematographic writing.

    In addition to film screenings, the program includes master classes, panels and, of course, the now traditional offstage encounters, skilfully initiated by Brigitte Lefèvre.

    I would like to extend my sincerest thanks to the City of Cannes and the Palais des Festivals, as well as to all the public, institutional and private partners whose support makes this major dance festival possible. Their support for art and creation is a real source of hope in a political and geopolitical context where freedom, tolerance and democracy are all too often called into question.

    Finally, I would like to salute and congratulate all the members of the Festival team. Their talent and commitment are essential to welcoming the artists, and to sharing with you these moments of emotion, discovery and celebration.

    Didier Deschamps - Artistic director