Auditions will take place on Sunday, 17 August 2025 in Bristol; applications will be accepted from May 2025 (date to be confirmed).  Please keep an eye on our Facebook & Instagram pages for notifications of dates.

Brecon Festival Ballet's professional auditions are held in conjunction with

Ballet Audition Platform UK.  This was created to help the large number of young UK-based dancers who have graduated from full time vocational training and are finding it difficult to get work, a situation that was exacerbated by Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic.  The hope is that the establishment of the platform will help enable the employment of “home-grown” dancers in UK-based companies.

There are 2 categories as follows:

• aged from 17 to 20 for advanced students and recent graduates

• aged 20+ for graduates and young professionals

The auditioning panel includes directors of companies, mostly based in the UK, that can offer short-to-medium term freelance contracts.

​

Among the companies that participated in previous years were:

BalletFolk / Birmingham Royal Ballet / Brecon Festival Ballet / 

Bristol Russian Ballet Youth Company (Guest Principal contracts) / Chevalier Ballet /

Cork City Ballet / English Youth Ballet / Kirrill Burlov Dance / Mergaliyev Classical Ballet