The Gala program will feature the finalists of YAGP international ballet competition and stars of the world’s leading dance companies.
FEATURING THE STARS FROM:
Alicia Amatriain (Stuttgart Ballet), NEW YORK DEBUT
Ashley Bouder (New York City Ballet)
Isabella Boylston (YAGP alumna, American Ballet Theatre)
Aurelie Dupont (Paris Opera Ballet)
Cecilia Kerche (Ballet Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro), NEW YORK DEBUT
David Hallberg (American Ballet Theatre)
Paloma Herrera (American Ballet Theatre)
Nicolaj Hübbe (New York City Ballet)
Manuel Legris (Paris Opera Ballet)
Vitor Luiz (Ballet Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro), NEW YORK DEBUT
Marianela Nunez (The Royal Ballet)
Joseph Phillips (YAGP Alumnus, San Francisco Ballet)
Rubinald Pronk (Complexions Contemporary Ballet)
Jason Reilly (Stuttgart Ballet), NEW YORK DEBUT
Xiomara Reyes (American Ballet Theatre)
Gennadi Saveliev (American Ballet Theatre)
Thiago Soares (The Royal Ballet)
Clifford Williams (Complexions Contemporary Ballet)
Company members of MOMIX
Hosted by Desmond Richardson
| YAGP 2007 GALA: “STARS OF TODAY MEET THE STARS OF TOMORROW” | ||||
| MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2007 AT 7:00PM | ||||
| NEW YORK CITY CENTER | ||||
| ACT I: “STARS OF TOMORROW | ||||
| The winners of Youth America Grand Prix 2007 | ||||
| International Student Ballet and Contemporary Dance Scholarship Competition. | ||||
| Variation from Coppelia | Tomoha Terada, 12 | |||
| Choreography: Arthur St. Leon | (Tanaka Ballet Art, JAPAN), | |||
| 1st Place Junior Men’s Division | ||||
| Variation from Graduation Ball | Paulina Guraieb Abella, 10 | |||
| Choreography: David Lichine | (Fomento Artistico Cordobes, MEXICO), Hope | |||
| Award, Pre-Competitive Division | ||||
| Variation from Le Corsaire | Kiril Kulish, 12 | |||
| Choreography: Marius Petipa | (San Diego Academy of Ballet, CA, USA), Youth Grand Prix Award (Junior overall winner) | |||
| Ballade- Deep in my Heart | DANCE WORLD made in TAKANE, JAPAN, | |||
| Choreography: Takane | 2nd Place Ensemble Division | |||
| Variation from Le Corsaire | Francesca Dugarte Romero, 17 | |||
| Choreography: Marius Petipa | (Academia de Ballet Clasico Nina Novak, | |||
| VENEZUELA), 2nd Place Senior Women’s Division | ||||
| Variation from Harlequinade | Megumi Horiuchi, 14 | |||
| Choreography: Marius Petipa | Kaneta Kouno Ballet Academy, JAPAN, 1st | |||
| Place Junior Women’s Division | ||||
| Dance of the Hours | Orlando Ballet School, FL, USA, 2006 | |||
| Choreography: Richard Cook | Outstanding School Award | |||
| Solo | Ryan Steele, 16 | |||
| Choreography: Carlos dos Santos Jr. | (Dance Dynamics Performing Arts Center. MI, | |||
| USA), Sarah Chapin Langham Award Recipient | ||||
| Variation from Don Quixote | Aurora Dickie, 18 | |||
| Choreography: Marius Petipa | (Pavilhàod – Centro De Artes, BRAZIL), 3rd | |||
| Place Senior Women’s Division | ||||
| Folia | Telmo Higino Gomes Moreira, 15 | |||
| Choreography: Catarina Moreira | Escola de Danca do Conservatorio Nacional, | |||
| PORTUGAL, Dance Europe Magazine’s “Best | ||||
| European Dancer” Award Recipient | ||||
| Muy Dentro De La Tierra | Formento Artistico Cordobes, MEXICO, 1st | |||
| Choreography: Rosario Murillo | Place Ensemble Division | |||
| Rencontre | Sarah Michelle Murawski, 15 | |||
| Choreography: Servy Gallardo | (The Rock School for Dance Education, PA, USA) | |||
| Sarah Chapin Langham Award Recipient | ||||
| Variation from Paquita | Young Gyu Choi, 16 | |||
| Choreography: Marius Petipa | (Tanz Akademie Zurich Taz, SWITZERLAND), | |||
| 2nd Place Senior Men’s Division | ||||
| Age of Noise | Camille Bracher, 15 | |||
| Choreography: Kitty Phetla | Ballet Theatre Afrikan, SOUTH AFRICA, | |||
| Outstanding Contemporary Dancer Award | ||||
| Variation from La Sylphide | Yoshikazu Asada (18) | |||
| Choreography: August Bournonville | (Hazaki Koshiba Ballet School, JAPAN), 2nd | |||
| Place Senior Men’s Division | ||||
| Pas de Deux from Pharoh’s Daughter | Whitney Jensen, 14 | |||
| Choreography: Marius Petipa | (Valentina Kozlova’s Dance Conservatory of | |||
| New York, NY, USA) & Reyneris Reyes | ||||
| (Non-Competing Partner, Boston Ballet), 2nd | ||||
| Place Junior Women’s Division | ||||
| Acteon’s Variation from Diana & Acteon | Jim Nowakowski, 17 | |||
| Choreography: Agrippina Vaganova | The Timothy M. Draper Center for Dance | |||
| Education, NY, USA), 1st Place Senior Men’s Division | ||||
| Variation from Don Quixote | Melissa Hamilton, 18 | |||
| Choreography: Marius Petipa | (UNITED KINGDOM / GREECE), Grand Prix | |||
| Award Recipient (Contract to ABT Studio Company) | ||||
| Grand Defilé | The Finalists of YAGP 2007 International student | |||
| Choreography: Carlos dos Santos, Jr. | ballet and contemporary dance competition | |||
| Intermission | ||||
| ACT II: STARS OF TODAY | ||||
| Petite Mort | Aurelie Dupont | |||
| Choreography: Jiri Kylian | Manuel Legris (Paris Opera Ballet) | |||
| Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | ||||
| La Esmeralda – Pas De Deux | Cecilia Kerche | |||
| Choreography: Jules Perrot | Vitor Luiz | |||
| Music: Cesare Pugni | (Ballet Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro) | |||
| Spring Waters | Xiomara Reyes | |||
| Choreography: Asaf Messerer | Gennadi Saveliev | |||
| Music: Sergei Rachmaninoff | (ABT) | |||
| Moonbeams (from “Lunar Sea”) | MOMIX | |||
| Choreography: Moses Pendleton | ||||
| Music: Kevin Dooley, The Star Seeds | ||||
| Choke – WORLD PREMIERE | Desmond Richardson | |||
| Choreography: Dwight Rhoden | Clifford Williams | |||
| Music: Sergey Gordeev | (Complexions Contemporary Ballet) | |||
| Rubies (from “Jewels”) | Paloma Herrera (ABT) | |||
| Choreography: George Balanchine | Nicolaj Hübbe (NYCB) | |||
| © The Balanchine Trust | ||||
| Music: Igor Stravinsky | ||||
| Quiet Music – WORLD PREMIERE | Isabella Boylston (ABT, YAGP Alumna) | |||
| Choreography: Benjamin Millepied | David Hallberg (ABT) | |||
| Music by: Nico Muhly | ||||
| Stars and Stripes | Ashley Bouder (NYCB) | |||
| Choreography: George Balanchine | and Joseph Phillips | |||
| © The Balanchine Trust | (San Francisco Ballet, YAGP alumnus) | |||
| Music: John Philip Sousa | ||||
| Mono Lisa – NEW YORK PREMIERE | Alicia Amatriain | |||
| Choreography: Itzik Galili | Jason Reilly | |||
| Music: Thomas Höfs | (Stuttgart Ballet) | |||
| La Dame aux Camelias – Black Pas De | Aurelie Dupont | |||
| Manuel Legris (Paris Opera Ballet) Deux | Manuel Legris | |||
| Choreography: John Neumeier | (Paris Opera Ballet) | |||
| Music: Frederic Chopin | ||||
| Le Corsaire – Pas De Deux | Marianela Nuñez | |||
| Choreography: Marius Petipa | Thiago Soares | |||
| Music: Adolphe Adam | (The Royal Ballet) | |||
| “The performance of “Stars and Stripes” and “Rubies” (from “Jewels”) was made | ||||
| possible by arrangement with and courtesy of The George Balanchine Trust.” | ||||