For Immediate Release
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Youth America Grand Prix presents:
YAGP 2004 Fifth Anniversary NYC
Season
and Gala at
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
GALA Featuring
the winners of the international student ballet competition and:
n Irina Dvorovenko & Maxim Belotserkovsky
(American Ballet Theatre)
n Renata Pavam &
Angel Corella (American
Ballet Theatre)
n Miranda Weese
& Benjamin Millepied (New
York City Ballet)
n Carla Korbes &
Amar Ramasar (New
York City Ballet)
n Raul Salamanca & Sarah Lamb (Boston Ballet)
n Marc Mann, Jeffrey
Polston, Michael Thomas (Complexions
Contemporary Ballet)
n Carlos dos Santos, Jr. (Complexions
Contemporary Ballet)
n Brian Simerson & Yasmine Lee (MOMIX)
international
participants will perform works by master choreographers:
n Roland Petit n Kassian Galizovsky
n Maurice Bejart n Yuri Grigorovich
n William Forsythe
YAGP International Student Ballet
Competition n Final Round n
Sunday, April 25, 2004 n 5:00 - 7:00pm
YAGP 2004 Gala n Alice Tully Hall,
Lincoln Center n Monday, April 26,
2004 n 7:30pm
New York, NY (March 15, 2004) –
America’s first student ballet scholarship competition will celebrate its Fifth
Anniversary Season in 2004 with the YAGP 2004 NYC Finals and the Fifth Anniversary
Gala at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on April 26th, 2004 at
7:30pm. YAGP 2004 Fifth Anniversary
season is also marked by the addition of two new international scholarship
presenters – Australian Ballet School and Austria’s St. Polten Ballet Conservatory
– which join 22 other leading dance schools worldwide that give over $100,000
annually in scholarship awards to young dancers at YAGP.
Tickets
to YAGP 2004 Fifth Anniversary Gala (Alice Tully Hall, Monday, April 26 at
7:30pm) are $100, $75, $50.
For tickets call CenterCharge – 212.721.6500, ATH Box Office
– 212.875.5050, visit www.lincolncenter.org
or purchase in person at Alice Tully Hall Box Office located on Broadway at 65th
street. For more info, visit www.yagp.org .
Tickets
for the FINAL ROUND of the competition (MLK High School Auditorium, Sunday,
April 25, 5:00-7:00pm) are available at the door for
$10. The Final Round will feature top
finalists from the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Moldova, Ukraine, Mexico, China,
Japan, Korea, Germany, Austria, and France.
YAGP
2004 Fifth Anniversary Season is sponsored by Capezio, Grishko,
So’Dança, Danskin, Discount Dance Supply, Pointe, Dance magazine, Dance
Teacher magazine, Harmonie Knitwear, Movado, and Swarovski.
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Marilyn
Rowe, Director of the Australian Ballet School will join the
prestigious YAGP jury panel at the Youth America Grand Prix 2004 Fifth
Anniversary NYC Finals, scheduled to take place on April 22-26, 2004 at the MLK
HS Auditorium. “The Australian Ballet School is pleased to begin what is hoped to be a
long and fruitful association with the Youth America Grand Prix in 2004. Events of this nature are so important to
dance, not only in forging strong
international
links within the dance community, but also in planning for the future of dance
through encouraging young dancers toward greater heights of achievement.”
Austrian St. Polten Ballet Conservatory will
also join the competition’s prestigious roster of 24 scholarship presenters in
its 5th Anniversary season.
“It’s hard to believe
that five years have passed since we decided to turn our dream of creating a student
ballet scholarship competition into reality,” says Founder and Artistic
Director of YAGP, Larissa Saveliev. “Yet so much has happened in five
years. Over 4,000 young dancers from around the world have participated in
Youth America Grand Prix competitions and workshops worldwide. Over half
a million dollars have been awarded in scholarships
to the world’s foremost dance schools.
And over 100 YAGP Alumni are
now dancing with some 30 companies around the globe, including
American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Eifman
Ballet of St. Petersburg, and many, many others.”
Gennadi
Saveliev, Founder and Executive Director, adds, “Besides providing
extraordinary opportunity for dance students to continue their dance education
by actually giving them scholarships to study at the leading dance schools
worldwide, we also seek to educate our participants, teachers and the audiences
about the choreographic legacy left by some of our leading contemporary and
classical master choreographers. At
this year’s competition, students and teachers will have a chance to see works
by Maurice Bejart, Roland Petit, Kassian Galizovsky, Yuri Grigorovich, and
William Forsythe – and that in itself is a great educational opportunity.”
Youth
America Grand Prix is America’s first ballet and
contemporary dance scholarship competition for students founded in 1999 by two
former Bolshoi Ballet dancers, Larissa and Gennadi Saveliev. The competition is open to students of all nationalities
ages 9-19. Conducted annually
throughout the United States and abroad, it culminates each year with a Final
Round and a rousing Gala performance at Lincoln Center in New York City.
Since
its inception, Youth America Grand Prix has become an important part of New
York City’s cultural life. It has grown
into an internationally known meeting place for dance students and teachers,
where they can exchange their ideas, share their experience and learn the most
up-to-date information on a variety of issues in ballet and contemporary
dance. YAGP’s level of reputation as a
showcase for dance students from America and abroad is such that even passing
the preliminary round to be selected to participate in the New York City Finals
gives a participant an important distinction and a boost to their professional
dance career.
Future plans of
Youth America Grand Prix include adding new regional locations in the United
States and abroad, launching community outreach programs to be led by YAGP’s
renowned guests and faculty, and establishing annual affiliations with dance
festivals around the country with the purpose of creating regular concert
series featuring promising young dance students. In 2005, Youth America Grand Prix plans to open the 1st
World Youth Dance Festival, featuring junior companies of the leading ballet
troupes from around the globe.
YAGP 2004 Fifth Anniversary Jury Panel will include:
Claire Baulieu,
Leading faculty member of the Paris Opera Ballet School (France)
Eleanor D’Antuono,
Artistic Director of the NYIBC
Gloria Govrin,
Associate Director of the San Francisco Ballet School
Deborah Hess, Leading
faculty member of Canada’s National Ballet School (Canada)
Denise Jefferson,
Director of The Ailey School
Raymond Lukens,
Artistic Director of Boston Ballet II
Tadeusz Matacz,
Director of the Stuttgart Ballet’s John Cranko School (Germany)
John Meehan,
Artistic Director of the ABT Studio Company
Marilyn Rowe,
Director of Australian Ballet School (Australia)
Gailene Stock,
Director of the Royal Ballet School (U.K.)
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YAGP 2004
Fifth Anniversary Gala
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center Monday, April 26th,
2004 at 7:30pm
The Program