As from 2000, the Centre Chorégraphique National has been assigned by the Ministry of Culture and Communication the mission to support other companies (open studio). To this effect it received a budget allowance which enabled it to support the projects of the companies chosen as resident companies. Under those terms and as from that date, Ballet Biarritz has supported the work of choreographers from the Aquitaine region and from other french regions.   List of the open studio companies