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96.3 WQXR (NY, USA)
- April 2005
303 Magazine
- May 18, 2012 - Colorado Ballet’s Dana Benton reviews “First Position”
ABC News
- May 2012
About.com
- May 14, 2012 - “Movie Review: First Position”
ABT Footnotes (NY, USA)
- March 2003
Backstage
- May 3-9, 2012 - “Documentary Dance-Off”
- September 1999
Ballet Magazine/Журнал Балет (Moscow, Russia)
- July/October 2009
- September 2007
- January/February 2004
Ballet Review (NY, USA)
- January 2009
- Winter 2003
BC The Mag
- September 18, 2012
Bergen Record (NJ, USA)
- October 2003
The Boston Globe
- May 13, 2012
- May 10, 2012 - “First Position: A gripping tale of kids in competition”
Boston Herald
- September 2011
- January 2000
Boulder Weekly News
- May 17, 2012 - “Reel to Reel”
The Brasilians (NY, USA)
- May/June 2008
- 2003
Chacott Magazine
- April 22, 2013 - Chacott Magazine
Carrollwood News
- January 2, 2013 - Ballet's Greatest Hits at the Straz
CBS News
- July 17, 2011 - “Stepping up to the competition”
Central Tampa News
- January 2, 2013 - Ballet's Greatest Hits at the Straz
Chicago Defender (IL, USA)
- March 2002
Clara Magazine (JAPAN) / クララ
- September 2007
- April 2005
- July 2004
Cinema Arts Centre
- May 20, 2012 - “First Position”
Cleveland.com
- May 18, 2012 - “First Position: Young ballet dancers chase dreams in competition”
Chicago Sun Times
- May 18, 2012 - “Aspiring talent takes bows in ‘First Position’”
Critical Dance Forum
- April 21, 2013 - YAGP - 2013 Competition and Gala
Criticize This!
- September 2011
DanceArt.com
- April 2012 - Youth America Grand Prix 2012
Danca Brazil
- May 2012
- October 2011
- March 2011
- October 2010
- March 2010
- December 2009
- October 2009
Dance Australia
- June/July 2010
- April/May 2009
Dance Europe (UK)
- May 2012
- December 2011
- May 2011
- January 2011
- June 2010
- May 2010
- December 2009
- December 2009
- June 2009
- December 2008
- December 2008
- June 2008
- November 2007
- July 2007
- January 2007
- June 2006
- June 2005
- November 2004
- June 2004
- January 2004
- June 2003
- April 2003
- June 2002
- February 2002
Danza Europa (Dance Europe Spanish edition)
- May 2011
- May 2011
- January 2011
- December 2009
Danza Ballet
- March 30, 2012 - Celida Villalon
Daily Journal
- April 2012
Dance Informa
- May 2, 2012 - “The Youth America Grand Prix”
- May, 2012
Dance International (CANADA)
- 2010 Fall
- 2009 Fall
- 2008 September
- 2006 September
- 2006 Fall
- 2004 Fall
- 2003 Fall
- 2002 Summer
- 2002 Winter
Dance Magazine (USA)
- May 6, 2013 - Larissa Saveliev Guest Blog
- May 2013 - The Sublime Hee Seo
- April 1, 2013 - Interview with Marcelo Gomes
- November 2012
- June 2012 - Joseph Gorak
- May 2012
- 2011 November
- 2011 February
- 2009 June
- 2009 April
- 2009 April*
- 2008 September
- 2008 February
- 2006 April
- 2006 January
- 2005 August
- 2004 July
- 2004 April (Young Dancer)
- 2004 April
- 2003 November
- 2003 October
- 2003 September
- 2002 October
- 2002 August
- 2002 July
- 2001 October
- 2001 September
Dancer Magazine (FL, USA)
- 2009 November
- 2009 June
- 2008 April
- 2007 August
- 2007 August
- 2007 March
- 2005 January
- 2004 July
- 2004 April
- 2003 September
- 2002 May
- 2001 August
- 2001 April
- 2000
Dance Magazine (JAPAN) / ダンスマガジン
- 2012 August
- 2011 June
- 2009 August
- 2009 August
- 2009 January
- 2008 July
- 2008 December
- 2007 August
- 2006 August
- 2005 July
- 2004 September
- 2004 August
- 2004 April
- 2003 August
DDD Magazine (Japan) / ダンスダンスダンス
- 2009 January
- 2008 February
Dance Spirit
- January 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- September 2012
- July/August 2012
- May 14, 2012 - “Gala-vanting”
- April 2012
- March 2012
- March 2010
- May 2003
- November 2001
- August 2000
- December 1999
Dance Spirit Newsletter
- 2011 September
Dance Studio Life
- 2008 September
Dance Teacher
- 2011 December
- 2012 May
- 2011 October
- 2009 July
- 2009 January
- 2004 September
- 2003 June
- 2003 April
- 2002 October
- 2002 September
- 2001 April
Dance View Magazine
- 2006 Spring
Danceview Times
- 2009 April
Dancing Times
- 2009 January
Deadline
- 2011 October
Denver Herald Dispatch (CO, USA)
- 2000 January
The Denver Post (CO, USA)
- 2001 May - January
Deseret Utah
- 2008 March
Detroit News
- May 17, 2012 - “’Position’ dances lightly over ballet competition”
Detroit Free Press
- 2012 May
Dork Shelf
- 2011 September
El Mundo de Cordoba
- 2008 March
El Sol de Cordoba
- 2007 November
- 2007 November
- 2007 November
Entree Magazine
- Fall 2009
Examiner.com
- May 17, 2012 - “’First Position’ is the best documentary you will see all year”
Eye on Dance and the Arts
- April 25, 2013 - Youth America Grand Prix Gala 2013
- May 2012
- May 1, 2012
Exploredance
- 2009 April
Front Row D Magazine
- May 18, 2012 - “Movie Review: In First Position, Youth Ballet Becomes a High Stakes Sports Competition”
Flexistretcher Blog
- May 18, 2012 - “ChitChat: Q&A with Aran Bell from ‘First Position’!”
Greenville News (SC, USA)
- 2003 April
Huffington Post
- September 7, 2012
- May 2012
Hollywoodchicago.com
- May 20, 2012 - “Ballet is a Fierce, Youthful Art in ‘First Position’”
The Korea Herald
- May 1, 2012 - “Korean ballerino wins top prize at Youth America Grand Prix”
Los Angeles Times
- March 19, 2013 - Ballet's Greatest Hits
- 2012 April
- 2012 April
Longboat Observer
- January 25, 2012 “Prix Prep”
- January 25, 2012
- March 22, 2012
iDanz
- 2009 April
IFC Films
- 2011 October
indieWire
- 2011 October
Inmate Collie Blog
- May 17, 2012 - “95% First Position The Baraza Blog
Inside (IL, USA)
- 2001 January
Marie Claire
- 2012 April
Metrotimes
- May 17, 2012 - “Grand jete – Overdriven parents or Overachieving children?”
The Moscow Times
- May 2012
Movie Mom
- May 16, 2012 - “Interview: Director Bess Kargman of the Ballet Documentary ‘First Position’”
Movmnt Magazine
- 2006 - 2007 Winter
NBC News
- 2012 April
New York (NY, USA)
- 2002 May
New York Cool
- May 15, 2012 - “Ballerina Assoluta” Gala Tribute to Legendary Natalia Makarova at Lincoln Center”
New York Post
- April 22, 2013 - Woody Allen injects humor into the ballet
- April 18, 2013 - Bolshoi ballerina returns
- 2012 April
New York Social Diary
- April 22, 2013 - New York Social Diary
- May 16, 2012
The New York Sun (NY, USA)
- 2007 May
- 2006 April
The New York Times
- March 24, 2011 - “Here, some promising dancers, there, some well-seasoned pros”
- 2012 April
- 2012 April
- April
- 2010 March
- 2008 April
- 2008 April
- 2007 May
- 2006 April
- 2005 April
- 2004 April
- 2002 May
NYC Dance Stuff
- May 5, 2012 - “Ballerina Absoluta: Gala Tribute to Legendary Natalia Makarova at Lincoln Center”
- May 3, 2012 - “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow: Youth America Grand Prix”
Novoye Russkoye Slovo (NY, USA)
- 2007 May
- 2007 April
- 2005 April
- 2004 May
- 2003 April
Now Toronto
- 2011 September
NY Beacon
- 2009 April
NY Post
- 2009 April
Oberon’s Grove
- 2012 April
- 2012 April
Orlando Sentinel
- January 2, 2013 - Ballet's Greatest Hits in Tampa
Orange County Register
- August 5, 2012
- August 3, 2012
- February 12, 2012 - Ballet competitors strive to be best
Panorama (CA, USA)
- 2004 April
- 2004 February
The Philadelphia Inquirer
- 2012 May - “Insider's look at very young, very talented ballet students”
- 2008 March
- 2008 March
Philadelphia Weekly Blog
- May 15,2012 - “First Position: A Ballet Documentary is a Brilliant Film…”
Playbill
- 2010 March
Pointe Magazine
- April/May 2013
- April/May 2013
- April/May 2013
- April 2013 - YAGP's Glittery Gala
- March 2013
- March 2013
- March 2013
- January 2013
- January 2013
- January 2013
- January 2013
- January 2013
- October 2012
- June/July 2012
- April/May 2012 - “From JKO to ABT”
- October 2011 - “Natural Authority”
- June/July 2011 - “The Judges' Pet Peeves”
- 2011 June/July
- 2011 June/July
- 2010 June/July
- 2010 June/July
- 2009 December / 2010 January
- 2009 December / 2010 January
- 2009 June – July
- 2009 March
- 2008 January
- 2006 April
- 2005 August
- 2003 August
- 2002 October
- 2001 July
- 2001 March
- 2001 January
- 2000 September
The Post & Courier
- March 23, 2012
- 2011 February
- 2011 February
Q&A with First Position’ director Bess Kargman
- 2011 September
The Quest for “It”
- May 5, 2012 - “FLASHBACK PHOTOS: Youth American Grand Prix Presents Ballerina Assoluta: A Tribute to Natalia Makarova”
The Register Citizen (CT, USA)
- 2007 May
- 2002 March
- 2001 March
- 2001 February
Random Thoughts on Dance
- April 20, 2013 - Dance Impressions
RedEye Blog – Chicago
- May 17, 2012 - “’First Position’ review: Ballet Experience not required”
- May 17, 2012 - “’First Position’ review: Ballet Experience not required”
Refinery 29
- May 2, 2013 - Elegancy Overload
Roseville California Press Tribune
- May 19, 2012 - “Five Questions: 11-year-old dances his way to ballet gold”
Russian Bazaar/Русский Базар
- March 22, 2012
- 2010 April
- 2010 March
- 2010 February
- 2009 April
- 2009 March - April
- 2009 March
- 2009 March
- 2009 March
- 2009 February – March
- 2007 May
- 2006 April - May
- 2006 April
Russia Beyond the Headlines/Россия за Пределами Заголовков
- 2012 April
The Salt Lake City Report
- May 17, 2012 - “Personality leads in dance documentary ‘First Position’”
Salt Lake City Tribune (Blog)
- May 18, 2012 - “Friday Movie Roundup: Float on”
Santa Barbara News Press (CA, USA)
- 2001 January
San Francisco Chronicle
- May 11, 2012 - “First Position review: Ballet Documentary grips”
San Diego Reader
- May 16, 2012 - “First Position: Some Humanity Not Hoop Dreams:
San Diego Reader Blog
- May 17, 2012 - “Meet First PositionDirector Bess Kargman This Weekend at Landmark Hillcrest”
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
- January 6, 2013 - All star lineup delivers at Youth America Grand Prix
- December 23, 2012 - Dance Stars Converge for YAGP
- January 23, 2012 - “REVIEW: Competition gala brings out the bravura”
- January 15, 2012 - “Youth America Grand Prix brings prestige to ballet competition world”
Screen Daily
- 2011 September
Sound on Sight
- 2011 September
Springfield Ballet Blog
- May 17, 2012 - “Stretching the Media’s Perception of Ballet”
Socially Superlative
- May 3, 2012 - “Ballerina Assoluta: Gala Tribute Honoring the Legendary Natalia Makarova”
South Florida Classical Review
- 2011 February
Staten Island Sunday Advance
- 2009 April
St. Louis Today
- May 18, 2012 - “Teen dancers soar in ballet documentary 'First Position'”
St. Louis Jewish Light
- May 16, 2012 - “Ballet documentary defies stereotypes”
The Star-Ledger (NJ, USA)
- 2012 May
- 2010 March
- 2009 April
- 2005 April
- 2004 January
- 2002 May
- 2001 May
The Sticky Egg
- May 12, 2012 - “Dance, dance baby”
The Sunday Indian
- 2011 September
Tampa Bay Parenting
- January 2012 - Gala features top international dance students, performers
Tampa Bay Times
- January 3, 2013 - A buffet of ballet
- January 19, 2012 - “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow”
Tampa Tribune
- January 4, 2013 - Dance - See Some of the World's Best Ballet Dancers
- December 19, 2011 - Making her pointe
Teen Vougue
- 2012 June/July
TimeOut New York
- 2009 May
USA International Ballet Competition News (MS, USA)
- 2003 Spring
Vancouver Sun
- 2011 October
Variety
- 2011 September
- 2011 September
Ventura (CA, USA)
- 2001 February
V Novom Svete
- May 4-10, 2012 - “FLASHBACK PHOTOS: Youth American Grand Prix Presents Ballerina Assoluta: A Tribute to Natalia Makarova”
- April 27, 2012 - “FLASHBACK PHOTOS: Youth American Grand Prix Presents Ballerina Assoluta: A Tribute to Natalia Makarova”
The Wall Street Journal
- April 2013
- April 2012
The Washington Post
- May 11, 2012 - “’First Position’: Dancers at a Breaking Point”
The Washington Times (WASHINGTON DC, USA)
- 2001 June
Wickedlocal.com
- May 11, 2012 - “First Position Tells the Story of Dedicated Dancers
You Dance Funny (Blog)
- May 18, 2012 - “‘First Position’ – Pleasant. Happy. Shiny.”
Young Dancer Magazine (NY, USA)
- 2011 March
- 2005 March
- 2004 June
Zimbio
- 2011 September

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