Dear Friends,
2020 has been a challenging year – and dancers worldwide have accepted the challenge: to work harder, to fly higher, and to go further. And so did YAGP.
This year may have looked a little different – but
Dear Friends,
It is with gratitude and appreciation for our global community of dancers, teachers, schools, friends, and supporters that we welcome you to the YAGP 2021 Season. As the performing arts world has suddenly found itself on pause, YAGP has
Youth America Grand Prix, the world’s largest ballet scholarship organization, will present a Pas de Deux Virtual Competition June 26–28.
Over 12,000 aspiring dancers ages 9 to 19 danced at YAGP's 2020 regional auditions around the globe. The three highest ranked
"I am confident we can get back to the theater, we are just not sure when." Larissa Saveliev discusses the future of #YAGP and her plan to come back stronger after #COVID-19 #2020 and more
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Over 1,000 dancers from around the world were slated to descend on New York this week to participate in Youth America Grand Prix’s final round. But like most events around the country, the annual ballet scholarship competition — dubbed the
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Today would have marked the start of the YAGP 2020 Finals. More than 1,500 of the most promising young dancers from 36 countries would have gathered in New York to audition for up to $500,000 in scholarships to the
Dear Friends,
Today would have marked the start of the YAGP 2020 Finals. More than 1,500 of the most promising young dancers from 36 countries would have gathered in New York to audition for up to $500,000 in scholarships to the
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?
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
TAMPA, Fla. - It could be called the American Idol of ballet, and it's going on right now in Tampa. Hundreds of talented student dancers, ages 9-19, are auditioning for the Youth America Grand Prix.
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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
Ahead of their upcoming “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow” show, the Next Generation Ballet performed in the Daytime studio.
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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,
This week, over a thousand dancers travelled to New York to participate in Youth America Grand Prix’s high-stake finals.
Over the course of six days, young ballet dancers ages 9 to 19 filled the halls of SUNY Purchase for intense rounds
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are twinning… quite literally!
The former Full House actresses, 32, made a rare red carpet appearance together on Thursday night at the Youth America Grand Prix’s 20th Anniversary Gala in New York City.
The outing was particularly special
On Thursday evening, Mick Jagger made his first public appearance since undergoing heart surgery.
The Rolling Stones frontman — who had a stent put in an artery earlier this month — attended the Youth America Grand Prix’s 20th-anniversary gala to see
Cory Stearns was feeling cocky. It was 2001, and he was 15, competing in the finals of the Youth America Grand Prix ballet competition. As he took the stage to perform a solo from “Swan Lake,” some students from his
Dear friends,
As we near the Youth America Grand Prix 20th Anniversary Season Finals, we look back on the past twenty years with a sense of gratitude and awe. When we started YAGP in 1999, it was hard to imagine its
NEW YORK - Yuma Matsuura of Japan has won the senior age division at the Youth America Grand Prix audition for promising young ballet dancers, the organizer said Friday.
As there was no Grand Prix award winner in the senior division
“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
