The 2025 award winners

Various prizes were awarded on the last day of the festival at the GRAND FINALE.

Main prizes

GRANDE FINALE Award (Prize sponsor Isaac Dreyfus-Bernheim Stiftung), CHF 5000
Diabolo – Jano Schorno (Switzerland)

Golden Star (Prize sponsor Dreyfus Söhne & Cie. AG, Banquiers), CHF 5000
Pendular Hoop – Nicolás Teusa (Colombia)

Silver Star (Prize sponsor IWB), CHF 3000
Handstand Equilibristics – Vladyslava Naraieva (Ukraine)

Bronze Star (Prize sponsor Salto Entertainment), CHF 2000
Teeterboard – «Blauwal Company» | August Rohde Aass, Tobias Niemöller, Lovisa Wengerzink, Simon Malmsten (Sweden, Norway, Germany)

YOUNG STAR Prize (Prize sponsor Implenia), CHF 2000
Slack Wire – Jie Liao (China)

Prize of the audience (Prize sponsor Radio Basilisk), CHF 2000
Diabolo – Jano Schorno (Switzerland)

Friends Prize (Prize sponsor YOUNG STAGE Friends), CHF 2000
Hand to Hand / Partner Acrobatics – Mariana Punchak & Daria Naumeika (Ukraine)

Special awards

Cirque du Soleil Award, CA
Hand to Hand / Partner Acrobatics – Mariana Punchak & Daria Naumeika (Ukraine)

Award from Circus Monti, CH
Pendular Hoop – Nicolás Teusa (Colombia)

Award from Wintergarten Varieté, DE
Handstand Equilibristics – Vladyslava Naraieva (Ukraine)

Award from Europa-Park Talent Academy, DE
Diabolo Dance – Matéo Turbelin & Aélia Savary (France)

Prize of the Circus, Varieté, and Performing Artists’ Friends of Switzerland
Aerial Silks – Clara Alex (Canada)

Prize of the Swiss Federation of Circus Schools (FSEC)
Pendular Hoop – Nicolás Teusa (Colombia)

Engagement prizes

Circus Roncalli, DE
Teeterboard – «Blauwal Company» | August Rohde Aass, Tobias Niemöller, Lovisa Wengerzink, Simon Malmsten (Sweden, Norway, Germany)

Feuerwerk der Turnkunst, DE
Handstand Equilibristics – Vladyslava Naraieva (Ukraine)

Palazzo Colombino, CH
Aerial Straps – Frank Álvarez (Mexico)

Europa-Park, DE
Aerial Straps – Frank Álvarez (Mexico)

GOP-Varieté, DE
Slack Wire – Jie Liao (China)

«Stille Kracht» / Casino Theater Winterthur, CH
Handstand Equilibristics – Vladyslava Naraieva (Ukraine)

Cirque Imagine, FR
Slack Wire – Jie Liao (China)

Krystallpalast Varieté Leipzig, DE
Partner Acrobatics & Teeterboard – «Les Triphasés» | Nina Thibault, Benjamin Jules Godfroy, Janosch Jötten (France & Germany)

«Urbanatix», DE
Pendular Hoop – Nicolás Teusa (Kolumbien)

«Breakin’ Circus», DDC Entertainment Group, DE
Handstand Equilibristics – Vladyslava Naraieva (Ukraine)

MSC Cruises, CH
Handstand Equilibristics – Vladyslava Naraieva (Ukraine)