Dance*is*life Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Have just heard that our former student, who moved to the US last summer, was chosen for the final top ten Junior Men age12-14 in the YAGP! That's the competition featured in "First Position". He was 12 in December and is really talented! He took his Grade 7 with us last year and got 95%! Anyway, he started at his new school in California in October and they immediately began teaching him a classical variation. He has an excellent male teacher who coached him for it personally. He won the San Francisco heat and they then had to add a contemporary solo for the NY finals. Luckily during his 5 years with us, he also learnt modern and jazz and flamenco all of which he was brilliant at too, because he only takes ballet classes in his new school, and otherwise they would not have been able to create such a good solo for him. It's important because to get to the final group both modern and classical variations are taken into consideration. He will be in the final concert, the awards ceremony and the Grand Defile. Wish I could be there! 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Mega Congratulations! I look forward to seeing the videos of the competition on YAGP site, and it also seems they have live streaming of the final, but I don't know if it would work over here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dance*is*life Posted April 15, 2015 Author Share Posted April 15, 2015 According to his mother there won't be live streaming of the final performance as the tickets are mega expensive and sold out! Perhaps there will be a video. Also mega expensive no doubt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 http://www.visualartsmasters.com/purchase-live-broadcast-access This is the link. Also, exploring YAGP site there do seem to be lots of videos of previous years - just click the tab Videos! Happy viewing! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dance*is*life Posted April 17, 2015 Author Share Posted April 17, 2015 Just wanted to say that he got 6th place, which was a tremendous achievement on his first try. He was also called on stage 4 times to receive scholarship offers! Royal Ballet School and ABT made him offers among others! He actually got accepted to the RBS Summer School last summer, but was unable to attend because of moving to the States. I don't know if they remembered him from that, but they were presumably impressed with his potential. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Congratulations - do let us know what he decides, whether to continue at his present school or accept one of the scholarships. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seymour Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Just to remind any Balletcoers that you can watch live streaming now from NYC. Currently age 12-13 ballet solos girls ???????????????????????????????????????? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulieW Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 We're supporting a friend's daughter - so exciting to know someone in it! (We're friends originally through this site - live in different countries, have never met, but feel really close) 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lildancer96 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 I missed her dance today has anyone got a link where I can watch it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna C Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 I'm not sure whether YAGP put highlights or repeats of the live stream up? Would be very handy if they do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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