Each year, millions of dancers and dance lovers tune in to watch Switzerland’s Prix de Lausanne via livestream. A nine-member jury, which Bradney is a part of, goes through each video and makes around 80 selections. They are a mix of partner school and company artistic directors and former Prix de Lausanne winners, representing different countries and styles, generations, and levels of experience. “And often it’s often about world events—pollution, war, human rights—which I think really speaks to young people.”Dancers participating in Jessica Lang’s Our Common Fate, the 2025 Prix de Lausanne Partner School Choreographic Project. “Some offer school scholarships, some offer paying contracts, but [the Prix serves as] an audition process,” says Bradney.