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.”