Congratulations to the 2023 YAGP Winners!

Congratulations to the 2023 YAGP Winners!

After a long week of performances, master classes, and scholarship auditions, Youth America Grand Prix announced the results of its 2023 Final Round yesterday afternoon at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa, Florida. Over the course of the last year,...
Are You Competing for the Right Reasons?

Are You Competing for the Right Reasons?

As a 17-year-old student at The School of American Ballet, I had little awareness of ballet competitions—and to be fair, at that time (the early 1990s), there weren’t very many. Youth America Grand Prix and its many spawns did not yet exist, and the famous...