When he was 5 years old, Alex Westerman saw a holiday favorite, “The Nutcracker” ballet, on television. “I said, ‘I want to do that, it looks so cool,’ ” he recalled. “I called to my mom and said, ‘What is that? Can I do that?’ ” “That” was ballet, and...
Hundreds of regional dancers, between age 9 to 19, will take workshops, classes and audition at the Youth America Grand Prix in Edmonds, hoping to make the Finals Week in New York City in April where they can compete for scholarships to schools and companies. Alexei Moskalenko, YAGP assistant artistic...
Students with highest scores continue to the finals at lincoln center at we have barry with a look at the competition at the straz center. great.a ballet lover, you can have a feast for days if you don’t know a lot about ballet, think olympics. it’s like the olympics of...
Ahead of their upcoming “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow” show, the Next Generation Ballet performed in the Daytime studio. To continue reading please click on the button below…
As we welcome the beginning of a new year, we invite you to join us in celebrating the significant achievements of 2019 and Youth America Grand Prix’s remarkable 20 th Anniversary Season. As the largest global network of dance, YAGP has brought scholarship auditions, workshops, and performance opportunities to over...
“Look around this room,” exclaimed Youth America Grand Prix Board Member Terry Zucker, panning around the Promenade of the David H. Koch Theater, at YAGP’s “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow” Gala. In it mingled New York’s Junior social set, balletomanes, young dancers in tutus and established stars...
Like The Final Round, this year’s YAGP Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow Gala went off very smoothly, but for one hitch that was not YAGP’s doing. Indeed, at least in terms of organization, this year’s incarnation was superior to those I’ve previously seen. Having the Grand Defile...
I don’t know how the staff of Youth America Grand Prix manages to pull it off every year, but somehow they do. I can’t speak to the preliminary rounds of the 2018 incarnation of YAGP’s NY Finals, which this year were located in Purchase, N.Y. rather than in any of...
To go home a winner from the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP), the world’s foremost student dance competition, you need talent, virtuosity and a certain je ne sais quoi. But in the wings of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre’s theatre on Saturday afternoon, the first contest was for space. Dozens...
Hundreds of ballet dancers — ages 9 to 19 — from all over Utah are auditioning this weekend at the Marriott Center in Salt Lake City in the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) regional semi-finals. Selected competitors will continue on to the finals in New York City in April. YAGP...
Young ballet dancers competed this weekend for scholarships at the Young America Grand Prix regional semi-finals in Worcester. The dancers, age 9 to 19, came from all over Massachusetts and elsewhere in New England. The group awards more than $250,000 in scholarships each year to send dancers to schools and...
Hundreds of ballet dancers between the ages of 9 and 19 have been auditioning in Chicago at the Youth America Grand Prix regional semifinals. Chicago is one of more than 20 North American cities selecting finalists to compete in the finals in April at Lincoln Center in New York City....
Don’t be surprised if you see a lot of dancing around downtown Atlanta this weekend. Hundreds of ballet dancers – ages 9 to 19 – from the Atlanta area will be auditioning this weekend for the Youth America Grand Prix regional semi-finals at Georgia Institute of Technology Ferst Center for...
The 2018 Youth America Grand Prix regional semifinals were held at the University of Denver’s Newman Center for the Performing Arts January, 12-14. Two hundred and forty-six ballet dancers – ages 9 to 19 – from the Denver area auditioned for scholarships to send young dancers to leading schools and...
For the past week, young ballet performers have been giving it their all. The world’s largest network of dancers, the Youth America Grand Prix, had gathered the most promising names in ballet from around the world to work with masters to perfect their craft. The result? A two-hour opus unfolding...
