by Anna Maples | Jun 12, 2018 | News, Training
Though the World Ballet Competition based in Orlando, FL, is already under way, it’s not too late for for you to start watching from the comfort of your own couch. A live stream of the competition is available through Saturday, June 16, on both the...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jan 9, 2018 | Career, News
We’re in the thick of Youth America Grand Prix regional semi-final season, and the famous competition is now being made available to fans everywhere at the click of a mouse. Here are two ways to keep up with YAGP from wherever you are: Regional Semi-Finals Live...
by Steve Sucato | Sep 2, 2017 | Dancer Spotlight, Features, Inside PT, Profiles
Plucked from its second company to star as Olga in Tulsa Ballet’s 2016 production of Onegin, Tomoka Kawazoe offered the kind of classic story-ballet sweetness that audiences love. Yet the 19-year-old Tokyo native is equally adept in contemporary works. She wowed...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Aug 22, 2017 | Profiles
Spanish ballerina Lucia Lacarra left Bavarian State Ballet, her company of 14 years, in 2016 for life as an international guest artist, accompanied by her husband and fellow dancer, Marlon Dino. As an artist on the move, she packs her roomy dance bag with only the...
by Madeline Schrock | Apr 16, 2017 | News
The Youth America Grand Prix has a knack for finding ballet’s big names of tomorrow, and the latest crop of potential stars has arrived. At the end of last week, the winners of YAGP’s New York City finals were announced with many dancers taking home...
by Suzannah Friscia | Apr 12, 2017 | Career, Profiles, Viral Videos
It’s Youth America Grand Prix time again, and when the competition wraps up this week, we’ll meet some of tomorrow’s potential stars. YAGP has a track record of predicting some of ballet’s biggest names. Take a walk down memory lane with us and...
by Hannah Chang Foster | May 1, 2016 | Company Life
Last week’s Youth America Grand Prix Finals was a display of impressive dancing from hugely talented young competitors. Ranging from 9 to 19 years old and hailing from countries as far away as Switzerland and Australia, they gathered in New York City to compete...
by Amy Brandt | Apr 26, 2016 | Company Life
YAGP 2015 SIlver Medalist Rio Anderson of City Ballet School of San Francisco. Photo by VAM, via Facebook New York City has been taken over by bunheads. After months of regional semi-finals, roughly 1,000 Youth America Grand Prix finalists are here this week vying for...
