balletla Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 (edited) Anyone know who the finalists are for YBDY following today's semi-final competition? Edited to say, sorry I think I put this in the wrong place - it should have gone in 'What's happening' but I can't change it now Edited March 4, 2012 by Ribbons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 (edited) Anyone know who the finalists are for YBDY following today's semi-final competition? Edited to say, sorry I think I put this in the wrong place - it should have gone in 'What's happening' but I can't change it now Don't think it is the wrong place. It is 'news' after all! The finalists are (in the order in which they performed this afternoon): Suzan Opperman Royal Ballet School Georgia Ware Royal Ballet School Mica Bradbury Royal Ballet School Isabelle Brouwers English National Ballet School Julia Roscoe Royal Ballet School Estelle Bovay Royal Ballet School Naomi Seaton Royal Ballet School Thomas Edwards Central School of Ballet Alexander Bird Royal Ballet School Giorgio Garrett Royal Ballet School Adam Russell-Jones English National Ballet School Reece Clarke Royal Ballet School James Stephens Royal Ballet School Barnaby Rook Bishop Royal Ballet School Kilian Smith Royal Ballet School William Beagley Young Dancers Academy It's great to see more than one school represented in the final. The finalists are to be coached in the coming week by Laura Morera and Nehemiah Kish. Good luck to them all! The final will take place in the Linbury next Saturday evening. Edited to add that this afternoon's judges were Gary Avis, Deanne Bergsma and Zenaida Yanowsky Edited March 4, 2012 by Bluebird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Results of tonight's finals of the YBDY: 1st Prize: Reece Clarke 2nd Prize: Barnaby Rook Bishop 3rd Prize: James Stephens Sibley Dowell Award for a promising student with potential: Suzan Opperman Commendations: Geiorgio Garrett and Alexander Bird The judges were: Tadeusz Matacz (chairman) Gary Avis, Deanne Bergsma, Wayne Eagling, Kevin O'Hare, Ashley Page and Zenaida Yanowsky. Leanne Benjamin and Jonathan Cope replaced the previously announced coaches for the finalists. The Interlude Performance was given by the ABT Studio Company who are here at the moment as part of an exchange programme with the Royal Ballet School. They treated us to a charming performance of excerpts from Act III of Napoli. In my opinion, the judges must have had a really difficult job this year as all competitors performed well and the overall standard was very high. Congratulations to them all! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balletla Posted March 11, 2012 Author Share Posted March 11, 2012 Thanks for posting Bluebird. Wow, seems very 'boy heavy' this year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Thanks for posting Bluebird. Wow, seems very 'boy heavy' this year! Overall, the boys were stronger than the girls this year. Some of the audience felt that there were one or two other girls who were good enough to figure amongst the prize winners but it was a really tough job for the judges as there was so much talent on show. ps: apologies to Giorgio for the typo in his name in my original post. Unfortunately, I'm no longer able to edit it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mijosh Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Presumably one of those ABTII dancers performing,namely Aaron Smyth,is joining the Royal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Presumably one of those ABTII dancers performing,namely Aaron Smyth,is joining the Royal. Aaron Smyth didn't dance last night. I've just checked their current roster and he doesn't appear on it: http://www.abt.org/e..._co_dancers.asp Presumably he's already left the company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wulff Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Those wishing to know more about Aaron Smyth can check out his website. Born and trained in Austaralia he won the rarely awarded gold medal at the 2008 Genée competition held in Canada. A virtuoso replacement for Sergei perhaps? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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