The Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) has announced its new Virtual Scholarship Program, and is also offering online classes.
To execute the new program, YAGP has engaged with its global network of partner dance organisations, such as the Australian Ballet School, the Paris Opera Ballet School, Princess Grace Academy (Monaco), American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School and the John Cranko School of the Stuttgart Ballet, to name just a handful.
To be considered for the Virtual Scholarship Program, ballet students can create a “personal profile”, including videos of recent work, the school they currently attend, and the results from previous YAGP auditions. Scholarships available include year-round, short term and summer program places, as well as placement opportunities. Students can choose the schools or companies to which they apply.
For more information head to https://yagp.org/yagp-2020-virtual-scholarship-audition/
YAGP has also begun offering dancers free online ballet classes. These classes are available via YAGP’s Instagram , Facebook and YouTube, and are presented daily. Teachers include Luca Masala (Artistic Director of Monaco’s Princess Grace Academy), Sasha De Sola (YAGP Alumna and Principal Dancer at San Francisco Ballet), Maria Khoreva (Mariinsky Ballet), Kathryn Morgan (Miami City Ballet), Skylar Brandt (American Ballet Theatre), Peter Stark (Boston Ballet), Oliver Matz (Zurich Dance Academy), Jason Beechey (Palucca School Dresden), and TONY-nominated Broadway performer Karine Plantadit (YAGP Judge and Emcee, former dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater) teaching a special class on the Horton technique for ballet dancers.