2015 - 2016 YAGP Alumni Success Stories
As the world’s largest network of resources and opportunities for young dancers, Youth America Grand Prix offers its participants a chance to be seen and evaluated by the directors and representatives of the world’s leading dance companies. As a result, over 300 YAGP alumni have joined 80 dance companies around the globe. Below is a list of companies which YAGP alumni have joined.
ALBERTA BALLET (CANADA) Garrett Groat - (JKO/ABT, USA; Dance Unlimited, CANADA) Taryn Nowels - (The School of Oregon Ballet Theatre, USA; Orange County Dance Center, USA) Nicolas Pelletier - (Canada’s National Ballet School, CANADA; San Francisco Ballet School, USA)
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE (NY, USA) Mai Aihara - (Sasaki Mika Ballet Academy, JAPAN; John Cranko School, GERMANY) Kathryn Boren - (JKO/ABT, USA; Ballet Academy of Texas, USA) Isabella Boylston - Principal (Harid Conservatory, USA; Academy of Colorado Ballet, USA) Skylar Brandt – Soloist (JKO/ABT, USA; Scarsdale Ballet Studio, USA) Puanani Brown - (School of American Ballet, USA; The Washington School of Ballet, USA) Jeffrey Cirio – Soloist (Boston Ballet; Orlando Ballet, USA; Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, USA) Gray Davis - (South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, USA) Claire Davison - (Boulder Ballet School, CO) Scout Forsythe – (San Diego School of Ballet, USA) Patrick Frenette - (School of American Ballet, USA; Dmitri Kulev Classical Ballet Academy, USA) April Giangeruso - (JKO/ABT, USA; Valentina Kozlova's Dance Conservatory of New York, USA; Kirov Academy of Ballet, USA) Joseph Gorak - Soloist (Orlando Ballet School, USA; North Central School of Ballet, USA) Melanie Hamrick - (Kirov Academy of Ballet, USA; Eastern Virginia School of the Performing Arts, USA) Gabrielle Johnson - (JKO/ABT, USA; Anchorage Classical Ballet Academy, USA) Jonathan Klein - (VM Dance Studio, FRANCE) Jamie Kopit - (The Royal Ballet School, UK; Southland Ballet Academy, USA) Sarah Lane - Soloist (Draper Center for Dance Education, USA) Courtney Lavine - (School of American Ballet, USA; The Washington School of Ballet, USA; Troy Brown, USA) Betsy McBride - (Texas Ballet Theatre, Texas Ballet Theater School, USA; Ballet Academy of Texas, USA) Cameron McCune - (Raleigh School of Ballet, USA) Kaho Ogawa - (JKO/ABT, USA; Ballet Academy Releve, JAPAN; Yoshimi Ohara, JAPAN) Lauren Post - (Harid Conservatory, USA; Georgia Youth Ballet, USA) Alexandra Pullen - (Joffrey Academy of Dance, The Official School of the Joffrey Ballet, USA) Rachel Richardson – (The Rock School for Dance Education, USA) Calvin Royal III - (JKO/ABT, USA; Pinellas County Center for the Arts at Gibbs High School, USA) Hee Seo - Principal (John Cranko School, GERMANY; Universal Ballet Academy, USA) Christine Shevchenko - Soloist (The Rock School for Dance Education, USA) Cory Stearns - Principal (The Royal Ballet School, UK; Seiskaya Ballet, USA) Gabe Stone Shayer - (Bolshoi Ballet Academy, RUSSIA; The Rock School for Dance Education,
USA) Nathan Vendt - (Ballet Academy of Texas, USA; Ballet Tyler, USA) Luciana Voltolini - (Boston Ballet School, USA; Bolshoi Ballet School, BRAZIL) Paulina Waski - (JKO/ABT, USA; Academy of Ballet Etudes, USA) Jennifer Whalen - (The Royal Ballet School, UK; San Francisco Ballet, USA; The Kirov Academy, USA; Ventura County Ballet School, USA) James Whiteside - Principal (Virginia School of the Arts, USA; D’Valda & Sirico Dance and Music Centre, USA) Katherine Williams - (JKO/ABT, USA; Ballet Royale Institute of Maryland, USA) Joo Won Ahn - (Korea National University of Arts, KOREA) Jin Zhang - (Beijing Dance Academy, CHINA; The Rock School, USA)
ALABAMA BALLET (AL, USA) Nadine Barton – (Orlando Ballet School, USA)
ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER (NY, USA) Danica Paulos – (Yuri Grigoriev School of Ballet, USA)
ASAMI MAKI BALLET TOKYO (JAPAN) Iku Nakagawa – (Tachibana Ballet School, JAPAN) Mariko Oriyama – (Tachibana Ballet School, JAPAN)
ALONZO KING LINES BALLET (CA, USA) Courtney Henry - (Fordham University/The Ailey School, USA; Palm Beach Ballet Center, USA)
THE AUSTRALIAN BALLET (AUSTRALIA) Ako Kondo - Principal Artist (The Australian Ballet School, AUSTRALIA; The Royal Ballet School, UK; Shiho Kanazawa Ballet Studio, JAPAN) Rina Nemoto - (Cerri Academy de Ballet, USA)
BADISCHES STAATSTHEATER KARLSRUHE (GERMANY) Rafaelle Queiroz - First Soloist (Akademie des Tanzes, GERMANY)
BALLET ARIZONA (AZ, USA) Nayon Iovino - (Studio Dancarte, BRAZIL; The Washington School of Ballet, USA) Amber Lewis - (The Washington Ballet School, USA) Jessica Phillips - (Kirov Academy of Ballet, USA; Royal Academy of Fine Arts, USA) Carolina Tavarez - (The Washington School of Ballet, USA) Sasha Vincent - (Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, USA; The Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, USA)
BALLET DE MONTE CARLO (MONACO) Michael Grunecker - (Tanz Akademie Zurich, SWITZERLAND) Christian Tworzyanski - (School of American Ballet, USA; Calvert-Brodie School of Dance, USA)
BALLET DE SANTIAGO Gustavo Echevarria – (John Cranko School, GERMANY)
BALLET IDAHO Adrienne Kerr – Principal – (Karen Alwin, USA)
Elizabeth Herrmann-Barreto – (La Grande School of Ballet/Anaheim Ballet School, USA) Ethan Schweitzer- Gaslin – (Amerst Ballet, USA), (University of North Carolina School of the Arts, USA)
BALLET JORGEN (CANADA) Kirill Poselyanov - (Elite Danceworx, CANADA; Victoria Ballet Academy, CANADA) Daniel da Silva - (Pacific Dance Arts, CANADA; Santa Barbara D'oeste, USA)
BALLET MEMPHIS (TN, USA) Hideko Karasawa - (San Francisco Ballet School, USA; Houyu Ballet, JAPAN)
BALLETMET COLUMBUS (OH, USA) Adrienne Benz - (Elaine Kudo and Buddy Balou, USA) Kristie Latham - (The Rock School for Dance Education, USA; Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, USA) Michael Sayre - (Joffrey Academy of Dance, The Official School of the Joffrey Ballet, USA; Southold Dance Theater, USA) Caitlin Valentine Ellis- (Orlando Ballet School, USA) Ao Wang – (Liaoning Ballet Academyn, P.R. of CHINA)
BALLET WEST (UT, USA) Katlyn Addison – Demi-Soloist (Houston Ballet’s Ben Stevenson Academy, USA; National Ballet School of Canada, CANADA) Kimberly Ballard - (School of International Ballet, USA) Tyler Gum – Demi-Soloist (University of Arizona, AZ, USA; Ballet Society of Colorado Springs, USA; Sangre de Cristo Ballet Theatre, USA) Chelsea Keefer - (Utah Ballet at the University of Utah, USA; Salt Lake City Ballet Conservatory, USA) Christopher Sellars - First Soloist (The Rock School for Dance Education, USA; Orange County Dance Center, USA) Beckanne Sisk - Principal (The Rock School for Dance Education, USA; Studio of Creative Arts, USA)
BALLETT DORTMUND (GERMANY) Madeline Andrews - (Houston Ballet’s Ben Stevenson Academy, USA; Ballet West Academy, USA; Classical Ballet Academy, USA) Tiffany Byrd - (Ballet West Academy Professional Trainee Program, USA) Stephen King - (The Washington School of Ballet, USA; Ballet Royale Institute of Maryland, USA) Alysson Rocha - (San Francisco Ballet School, USA; Petite Dance School, BRAZIL)
BALLET X (PHILADELPHIA, US) Skyler Lubin- (Miami City Ballet School, USA; The Rock School for Dance Education, USA)
BALLET ZURICH (SWITZERLAND) Lauren Baznik - Junior Ballet (Princess Grace Academy, MONACO; John Cranko School, GERMANY; The Academy of Dance Arts, USA) Andrei Cozlac - Junior Ballet (Tanz Akademie Zurich, SWITZERLAND; Choreographic High School, ROMANIA) Surimu Fukushi – Ballet Zurich - Junior Ballet (Ballet Studio - DUO, JAPAN) Madoka Kariya - Junior Ballet (Maison du Ballet Etoile, JAPAN) Caitlin Stawaruk - (Tanz Akademie Zurich, SWITZERLAND; The Australian Ballet School, AUSTRALIA; Kim Harvey School of Dance, AUSTRALIA)
Chinatsu Sugishima - Junior Ballet (Ballet Academy Munich, GERMANY; Reika Otsuka Ballet Studio, JAPAN)
BAVARIAN STATE BALLET (GERMANY) Nagisa Hatano - (Kamiya Kumiko Ballet School, JAPAN)
BERLIN STATE OPERA BALLET (GERMANY) Wei Wang - (Beijing Dance Academy, P.R. OF CHINA) Patricia Zhou - (The Kirov Academy of Ballet, USA)
BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET (UNITED KINGDOM) William Bracewell - Soloist (The Royal Ballet School, UK; Pamela Miller Ballet School, UK) Mathias Dingman - Principal (Universal Ballet Academy, USA) Reina Fuchigami - (The Royal Ballet School, UK; Hitomi Takeuchi Ballet School, JAPAN) Maureya Lebowitz - Soloist (Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, CANADA) Alys Shee - (Academy of Ballet and Jazz, CANADA; Canadian Ballet Theatre, CANADA)
BOSTON BALLET (MA, USA) Diana Albrecht – Second Soloist (The Washington School of Ballet, USA; Municipal Institute of Arts, PARAGUAY) Paulo Arrais - Principal (The Royal Ballet School, UK; Gustav Ritter Cultural Center, BRAZIL) Jillian Barrell – (Ballet Arizona, USA; Delaware Dance Company, USA) Hannah Bettes – (Royal Ballet School, UK; The Patel Conservatory, USA; The Central Florida Ballet School, USA) Bo Busby - Second Soloist (The Harid Conservatory, USA; Calvert-Brodie Studios, USA) Dusty Button - Principal (JKO/ABT, USA; Birmingham Royal Ballet, UK) Lia Cirio - Principal (Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, USA; Swarthmore Ballet Theatre, USA) Albert Gordon – (The Washington Ballet School, USA) Helio Lima - (New Zealand School of Dance, NEW ZEALAND; School of Dance, BRAZIL) Drew Nelson - (Royal Danish Ballet, DENMARK; Patel Conservatory Youth Ballet, USA) Lawrence Rines - (The Rock School for Dance Education, USA; The School of American Ballet, USA) Ricardo Santos - (Conservatorio Brasileiro de Danca, BRAZIL) Irlan Silva – Second Soloist (Centro de Dance Rio, BRAZIL) Brittany Summer - (North Carolina School of the Arts, USA) Junxiong Zhao – Second Soloist (The Washington School of Ballet, USA; Shanghai Yuandong Ballet School, CHINA)
BROADWAY (NY, USA) Drew Minard - Billy Elliot: The Musical (School of Classical Dance, USA) Ryan Steele - Matilda: The Musical , Newsies: The Musical(Dance Dynamics Performing Arts Center, USA) Ephraim Sykes - Newsies: The Musical, Motown The Musical, Memphis (Alvin Ailey/ Fordham, USA)
BUCHAREST NATIONAL OPERA BALLET (ROMANIA) Noellie Coutisson - (Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, FRANCE) Rin Okuno - (Hamburg Ballet School, GERMANY; Sawako Murase Ballet Studio, JAPAN)
CAROLINA BALLET (RALEIGH, USA)
Maxmilian Isaacson -(Orlando Ballet School, USA; JKO/ABT, USA; Royal Academy of Fine Arts, USA)
CEDAR LAKE CONTEMPORARY BALLET (NY, USA) Jon Bond - (Center Stage Dance Academy, USA)
CHARLOTTE BALLET (NC, USA) Lucas Wilson-Bilbro - (The Rock School for Dance Education, USA)
COASTAL CITY BALLET (CANADA) Ana Paula Oioli - (Espaco de Dancas e Artes Paulistas, BRAZIL)
COLORADO BALLET Ariel Brietman – (Ellison Professional Training Program, USA) Emily Dixon – (Ballet Academy of Texas, USA) Fernanda Oliveria – (Escola Estuial de Danca Maria Olewena, BRAZIL)
COMPANIA NACIONAL DE DANZA (SPAIN) Nadia Khan - (Kirov Academy of Ballet, USA)
COLUMBIA CLASSICAL BALLET (COLUMBIA, USA) Kota Fujishima - (Pavlovich Dance School, USA)
DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM (NY, USA) Chyrstyn Fentroy - (The Joffrey Ballet School, USA; Studio Fusion, USA) Nayara Lopes - (ABT/JKO, USA; Theatre Dance Guaira, BRAZIL) Dylan Santos - (Centro de Artes Pavilhao D, BRAZIL) Stephanie Rae Williams - (Dallas Dance Academy, USA)
DEN NORSKE OPERA AND BALLET (NORWAY) Melissa Hough - (Kirov Academy of Ballet, USA; Dance Explosion, USA) Lucas Lima - (The Royal Ballet School, UK) Samantha Lynch - (Australian Conservatory of Ballet, USA; San Francisco Ballet Trainee Program, USA) Chihiro Nomura - (Heinz Bosl Foundation’s Ballet Academy, GERMANY; Tachiba Balt School, JAPAN) Garrett Smith - (Houston Ballet’s Ben Stevenson Academy, USA; Classical Ballet Academy, USA)
DRESDEN STATE OPERA BALLET (GERMANY) Anthony Bachelier- Corps ( Kanako Fujimoto Coryphee - (John Cranko School, GERMANY; Soda Ballet School, JAPAN) Vaclav Lamparter Corps – (Dance Conservatory of Brno, CZECH REPUBLIC) Yuki Ogasawara - Coryphée (Kirov Academy of Ballet St. Petersburg, RUSSIA; Tokyo Ballet School, JAPAN)
DUTCH NATIONAL BALLET (NETHLANDS) Melissa Chapski – Junior Company (Ellison Ballet, USA) Michaela de Prince – (The Rock School for Dance Education, USA) Krista Ettlinger – (The Art of Classical Ballet, USA) (Magda Aunon School of Ballet, USA)
Young Gyu Choi – Second Soloist (Sun Hwa Arts School Tanz Akademie, SWITZERLAND) Mao JingJing – (Dansacademie, P.R. CHINA) Maia Makhateli – First Soloist (Tblisi Choreographic Institute of Cabukiani, GEORGIA) Skyler Martin – (Royal Ballet School, UK) (Orlando Ballet School, USA) Sasha Mukhamedov – Second Soloist (Arts of Education, UK) (Independent) Aya Okumura – (John Cranko School, GERMANY) Edo Wijnen – Second Soloist (Koninklijke Ballet School, BELGIUM) Sho Yamada -(Koshiba Hazaki Ballet School, JAPAN)
EIFMAN BALLET OF ST. PETERSBURG (RUSSIA) Maria Abashova - Principal (St. Polten Ballet Conservatory, AUSTRIA)
ELEMENTS CONTEMPORARY BALLET (IL, USA) Yu Suzuki – (The National Ballet of Japan, Emiri Ballet House, JAPAN)
ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET (UNITED KINGDOM) Precious Adams - (Academy of Classical Ballet, USA; National Ballet of Canada, CANADA; Academy Princess Grace, MONACO; Bolshoi Ballet Academy RUSSIA) Isabelle Brouwers – (Royal Ballet Lower School, UK; English National Ballet School, UK) Cesar Corrales Junior Soloist - (American Ballet Theatre Studio Company, USA; Canada’s National Ballet School, CANADA) Rina Kanehara – (Hiroko Mizuno Ballet Academy, JAPAN; Princes Grace Academy, UK) Jeanette Kakareka - (The Rock School for Dance Education, USA; San Francisco Ballet School, USA) Shiori Kase - First Soloist (The Royal Ballet School, UK; Hirose Kato Ballet School, JAPAN) Madison Keesler - First Artist (San Francisco Ballet School, USA; Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, USA; Zamuel Ballet School, USA) Daniele Silingardi - (The Royal Ballet School, UK; Il Balletto, ITALY)
FESTIVAL BALLET PROVIDENCE (RI, USA) Kristen Evans - (Festival Ballet Providence, USA)
FINNISH NATIONAL BALLET (FINLAND) Rebecca King – Soloist (Czech National Ballet, CZECH REPUBLIC; Ballet Studio No. 7, USA; Ballet Royale Institute of Maryland, USA) Piergiorgio Regazzo - (Il Balleto, ITALY)
THE FORSYTHE COMPANY (GERMANY) Roderick George - (SUNY Purchase Dance Program, USA)
GEORGIA BALLET (GA,USA) Amber Miller – (Ellison Ballet Professional Training Program, USA) Brittnay Shinay – (Boston Ballet School, USA) (Draper Center for Dance Education, USA)
GRAND RAPIDS BALLET (MI, USA) Connie Flachs - (Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet, USA; Massachusetts Academy of Ballet, USA) Darrell Haggard - (The Washington School of Ballet, USA; Los Angeles Ballet Academy, USA; Velocity Dance Studio, USA) Keely Lytton - (Pacific Northwest Ballet School, USA; Naples Academy of Ballet, USA) Dave Naquin - (University of North Carolina School of the Arts, USA; Ballet Spartanburg, USA) Scott Pascal - (Los Angeles Ballet Academy, USA)
HAMBURG BALLET (GERMANY) Mayo Arii - Soloist (The School of Hamburg Ballet, GERMANY; International Ballet Academy, JAPAN)
HONG KONG BALLET (P.R. OF CHINA) Naomi Yuzawa
HOUSTON BALLET (TX, USA) Tyler Donatelli – (Houston Ballet II, USA; Southland Ballet Academy, USA) Derek Dunn - (The Rock School for Dance Education, USA; Edna Lee Dance Studio, USA) Bridget Kuhns - (Houston Ballet’s Ben Stevenson Academy, USA, BalletMet Colubus, USA, Opus II Dance Studio, USA) Madeline Skelly – Apprentice (Houston Ballet II, USA; Orlando Ballet School, USA) Alyssa Springer - (Houston Ballet’s Ben Stevenson Academy, USA; John Gardner and Amanda McKerrow, USA; Anaheim Ballet, USA; California Conservatory of Dance, USA) Priess Dickey Performing Dance Company, USA) Hayden Stark - (University of North Carolina School of the Arts, USA< Minnesota Ballet, USA, Cheryl Priss Dickey Performing Dance Company, USA) Megumi Takeda - (San Francisco Ballet School, USA; AIS Ballet Japan, JAPAN) Natalie Varnum - (Houston Ballet II, USA; Kirov Academy of Ballet, USA; Dothan School of Dance, USA) Brian Waldrep - (North Carolina School of the Arts, USA) Connor Walsh - Principal (Houston Ballet’s Ben Stevenson Academy, USA; Kirov Academy of Ballet, USA) Charles-Louis Yoshiyama – First Soloist (Houston Ballet’s Ben Stevenson Academy, USA; English National Ballet School, UK; Hiraki Ballet School, JAPAN)
HUNGARIAN NATIONAL BALLET (HUNGARY) Danielle Gould - (John Cranko School, GERMANY; Goh Ballet Academy, CANADA)
ISLAND MOVING COMPANY (NEWPORT, RI USA) Katie Moorhead – (Oxford Center for Dance, USA; First State Ballet Theatre, USA; Kirov Academy of Washington D.C. , USA; Arts of Ballet Theatre of Florida, USA)
JOFFREY BALLET (IL, USA) Anais Bueno - (Boston Ballet, USA; John Cranko School, GERMANY; Fomento Artistico Cordobes, MEXICO) Edson Barbosa – (Miami City Ballet, USA; Stuttgart Ballet, GERMANY, Washington Ballet, USA; Harid Conservatory; USA) Nicole Ciapponi – (San Francisco Ballet, USA; Pacific Northwest Ballet School, USA) Cara Marie Gary - (International Ballet Academy, USA) Anna Gerberich – (Charlotte Ballet, USA; Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, USA) Stefan Goncalvez - (The Washington School of Ballet, USA) Luis Eduardo Gonzales – (Metropolitan Ballet, USA; Houston Ballet II, USA; Orlando Ballet, USA) Dylan Gutierrez - (Los Angeles Ballet Academy, USA) Gayeon Jung – (Korean National University of the Arts, REPUBLIC OF KOREA) Jeraldine Mendoza - (City Ballet School of San Francisco, USA) Amber Neumann - (Joffrey Academy of Dance, The Official School of the Joffrey Ballet, USA; Southold Dance Theater, USA) Paulo Rodrigues – (Paulista Dance Academy, BRAZIL; Joffrey Academy of Dance, USA)
Elivelton Tomazi – (School of Bolshoi, RUSSIA; Paulista Company of Dance, BRAZIL) Alberto Velazquez - (JKO/ABT, USA; The Harid Conservatory, USA; Fomento Artistico Cordobes, MEXICO; Alejo Carpentié Elementary Ballet School, CUBA) Joanna Wozniak - (The Harid Conservatory, USA; The Chicago Academy of Arts, USA) Joan Sebastian Zamora - (English National Ballet, UK; The Rock School for Dance Education, USA; The Royal Ballet School, UK)
K BALLET (JAPAN) Yuriko Kawai - (Chikako Tatewaki Ballet, JAPAN) Miyuki Maeda - (Ballet Studio GEM, JAPAN) Momo Oida (Ooida Momo) Kumiko Tsuji - (Koike Ballet Studio, JAPAN) Ran Yamada - (Masako Ono Ballet Studio, JAPAN)
KANSAS CITY BALLET (KS, USA) Sarah Chun - (Oklahoma City Ballet, USA; Joffrey Academy of Dance, The Official School of the Joffrey Ballet, USA; Northwest Academy, USA) Whitney Huell - (Indiana University, USA; South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities, USA) Dillon Malinski - (Orlando Ballet, Alexandra School of Ballet, USA; Houston Ballet II, USA) Lamin Pereira dos Santos - (JKO/ABT, USA) Tayler Savoie - (Columbus Youth Ballet, USA)
KENTUCKY BALLET THEATRE (KY, USA) Jorge Barani – Principal – (Cuban Classical Ballet School, USA)
KOREAN NATIONAL BALLET (KOREA) Eun-Jin Kim - Coryphée
THE KREMLIN BALLET (RUSSIA) Joy Womack - (Bolshoi Ballet Academy, RUSSIA; Austin School of Classical Ballet, USA)
L’OPÉRA NATIONAL DE BORDEAUX (FRANCE) Mika Yoneyama - (College Dance Rosella Hightower, FRANCE; Hamamatsu City Ballet, JAPAN)
LA SCALA (ITALY) Denise Gazzo - (Il Balletto, ITALY)
LE BALLET DU CAPITOLE DE TOULOUSE (FRANCE) Emilia Cadorin - (Il Balleto, ITALY) Shizen Kazama - (Hoshi Katsumi Ballet Arts, JAPAN)
LOS ANGELES BALLET (CA, USA) Bianca Bulle - Soloist (School of American Ballet, USA; Ransley Ballet, AUSTRALIA) Robert Mulvey - (The Washington School of Ballet, USA) Christopher Revels - Principal (School of American Ballet, USA; Orlando Ballet School, USA) Katherine Revels - (School of American Ballet, USA; Orlando Ballet School, USA) Kenta Shimizu - Principal (K Ballet, JAPAN; The Royal Ballet School, UK; Soda Ballet School, JAPAN)
MARIINSKY THEATRE (RUSSIA) Kimin Kim - Principal (Korea National University of Arts, KOREA)
MIAMI CITY BALLET (FL, USA) Simone Messmer - Principal (San Francisco Ballet, USA; Ballet Arts Minnesota, USA) Christie Sciturro - (Miami City Ballet School, USA; Juliana’s Academy of Dance, USA) Ella Titus – (Miami City Ballet School, USA; Florida West Youth Ballet, USA)
MOMIX (CT, USA) Jonathan Eden - (Nutmeg Conservatory, USA; Classical Youth Ballet of Columbia, USA) Steven Marshall - (School of American Ballet, USA; Nutmeg Conservatory, USA)
NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA (CANADA) Jack Berkinshaw – Second Soloist (Tanz Akademie Zurich, SWITZERLAND; Tanya Pearson Classical Coaching Academy, AUSTRALIA; RG DANCE, AUSTRALIA) Skylar Campbell – First Soloist (V&T Dance Academy, USA) Trygve Cumpston - (Orlando Ballet School, USA; San Francisco Ballet School, USA) Francesco Gabrielle Frola – First Soloist (En Pro del Talento Veracruzano, MEXICO; School of The Hamburg Ballet, GERMANY; Professione Danze Parma, ITALY) Alexandra MacDonald - Second Soloist (International School of Ballet, USA)
THE NATIONAL BALLET OF JAPAN Mina Bonkohara – (Koike Ballet Studio, JAPAN) Kenta Hara – First Artist (Wakui Ballet, JAPAN) Maiko Harada – (Dance Space, JAPAN) Saori Ishiyama – (Star Dancers Ballet Studio, JAPAN) Yuko Masuda – (Kayo Mafune Classic Ballet Studio, JAPAN)
NEDERLANDS DANS THEATRE Madoka Kariya – NDT 2 (Maison du Ballet Etoile, JAPAN)
NEVADA BALLET THEATRE (NV, USA) Kaleigh Schock - (Ellison Ballet-Professional Training Program, USA)
NEW JERSEY BALLET (NJ, USA) Iori Araya- (The Australian Ballet School, AUSTRALIA; Takahashi Hiromi Ballet Studio, JAPAN) Kotoe Kojima-Noa - (Etoile Ballet School, JAPAN) Risa Mochizuki - (Kishibe Ballet School, JAPAN; Kawasaki Ballet School, JAPAN; Royal Ballet of Flanders, BELGIUM)
NEW YORK CITY BALLET (NY, USA) Likolani Brown - (School of American Ballet, USA; The Washington School of the Ballet, USA) Zachary Catazaro - Soloist (School of American Ballet, USA; School of Canton Ballet, USA) Ashly Isaacs - Soloist (School of American Ballet, USA; Magda Aunon School of Classical Ballet, USA; Michael’s Academy of Performing Arts/Fort Lauderdale Ballet Classique, USA) Emily Kikta - (School of American Ballet, USA; Ballet Academy of Pittsburgh, USA; Thomas Studio of Performing Arts, USA) Ashley Laracey - Soloist (School of American Ballet, USA; The Harid Conservatory, USA; Sarasota Ballet of Florida, USA; Carty Academy of Theater Dance, USA) Lauren Lovette – Principal (School of American Ballet, USA; Cary Ballet Conservatory, USA) Sara Mearns - Principal (School of American Ballet, USA; South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities School of North Carolina Dance Theatre, USA; Calvert-Brodie School of
Dance, USA) Taylor Stanley - Soloist (School of American Ballet, USA; The Rock School for Dance Education, USA) Lara Tong - (School of American Ballet, USA; Palos Verdes Ballet, USA) Indiana Woodward - (School of American Ballet, USA; Yuri Grigoriev School of Ballet, USA)
OPÉRA BALLET DE METZ (FRANCE) Camilla Cason - (Il Balletto, ITALY)
OPÉRA NATIONAL DU RHIN (FRANCE) Anna Ishii - (New Zealand School of Dance, NEW ZEALAND; Kazuko Sugihara Ballet Arts, JAPAN)
ORLANDO BALLET (FL, USA) James Applewhite - (JKO/ABT, USA; Howard W. Blake High School for the Performing Arts, USA) Jessica Assef (Orlando Ballet School, USA; Escola de Ballet Corpo e Arte, BRAZIL; Jolles Salles, BRAZIL) Ashley Baszto - (The Rock School for Dance Education, USA) Arcadian Broad - (Orlando Ballet School, USA) Luis Eduardo Gonazalez (Orlando Ballet School, USA) Brianne George - (Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, USA) Juan Jose Carazo - (ABT Studio CO, USA) Telmo Moreira - (National Conservatory Dance School of Portugal, PORTUGAL) Sebastian Serra - (Ballet Concierto, PUERTO RICO; Miami City Ballet, USA)
PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET (WA, USA) Chelsea Adomaitis – (Wayne Stewarte, USA; Harid Conservatory, USA; Pacific Northwest Ballet School, USA; Royal Ballet School, UK; National Ballet School, CANADA) Kyle Davis - (North Carolina School of the Arts, USA; Makaroff School of Ballet, USA) Angelica Generosa – (School of American Ballet, USA; Princeton Ballet, USA; New Jersey Ballet, USA; Pacific Northwest Ballet, USA) Steven Loch - (Pacific Northwest Ballet School, USA; Ballet Conservatory, USA) Elle Macy - (Orange County Dance Center, USA) James Moore - Principal (School of American Ballet, USA; San Francisco Ballet School, USA) Sarah Pasch - (Pacific Northwest Ballet School, USA; Houston Ballet’s Ben Stevenson Academy, USA; San Ramon Valley Dance Academy, USA) Price Suddarth - (Pacific Northwest Ballet School, USA; Central Indiana Dance Ensemble, USA) Ezra Thomson - (Pacific Northwest Ballet School, USA; Riverside Ballet Arts, USA)
PENNSYLVANIA BALLET (PA, USA) Andrew Daly - (The Nutmeg Conservatory for the Performing Arts, USA; JKO/ABT, USA)
POLISH NATIONAL BALLET (POLAND) Yurika Kitano - (Boston Ballet School, USA) Kiki Saito – (Studio Apple Sapporo Hinomaru Buyoukai, JAPAN)
QUEENSLAND BALLET (AUSTRALIA) Shane Wuerthner – Soloist (Vienna State Opera Ballet, AUSTRIA) (Universal Ballet Academy, USA) (San Francisco Ballet, USA
ROCHESTER CITY BALLET (NY, USA) Rhea Keller – (Peoria Ballet, Cornerstone Academy for Performing Arts, USA) Lauran Tenney – (Ellison Ballet Professional Training Program, USA)
THE ROYAL BALLET (UNITED KINGDOM) Camille Bracher - (National School of the Arts, AFRICA) Annette Buvoli - (The Royal Ballet School, UK; Boulder Ballet School, USA) David Donnelly - (The Royal Ballet School, UK; Cincinnati Ballet Academy, USA) Benjamin Ella - (The Royal Ballet School, UK; Australian Conservatory of Ballet, AUSTRALIA) Isabella Gasparini - (Canada’s National Ballet School, CANADA; Toshie Kobayashi, BRAZIL) Matthew Golding - Principal (The Royal Ballet School, UK; Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, CANADA; Universal Ballet Academy, USA) Melissa Hamilton - First Soloist (Masha Mukhamedova, GREECE) Meaghan Grace Hinkis - Soloist (JKO/ABT, USA; New England Dance, USA) Mayara Magri – First Artist (Petite Danse School of Dance, BRAZIL) Vadim Muntagirov - Principal (The Royal Ballet School, UK; Perm Choreographic Ballet Institute, RUSSIA) Marcelino Sambé - Soloist (The Royal Ballet School, UK) Donald Thom – First Artist (The Royal Ballet School, UK; Linda Jamieson School of Dance, CANADA) David Yudes – (Academie Princess Grace Monte Carlo, MONACO) Valentino Zucchetti - First Soloist (The Royal Ballet School, UK; Zurich Ballet, SWITZERLAND)
ROYAL DANISH BALLET (DENMARK) Charles Andersen - (The Royal Ballet School, UK; Anaheim Ballet, USA) Caroline Baldwin - Soloist (Faubourg School of Ballet, USA) Eliabe Vieira D’Abadia - (Centro Cultural Gustav Ritter, BRAZIL)
ROYAL NEW ZEALAND BALLET (NEW ZEALAND) Kohei Iwamoto - (The Australian Ballet School, AUSTRALIA) Mayu Tanigaito - (North Carolina Dance Theatre II, USA)
ROYAL SCOTTISH BALLET (SCOTLAND) Quenby Hersh - Coryphee (The Royal Ballet School, UK; Southland Ballet Academy, USA)
ROYAL SWEDISH BALLET (SWEDEN) Emily Slawski – (Kirova Ballet, USA)
SAINT LOUIS BALLET (MO, USA) Tiffany Mori - (Ballet Met, USA; Tulsa Ballet, USA; Soda Ballet, JAPAN)
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET (CA, USA) Kamryn Baldwin – Corps (Hawaii State Ballet, USA; Metropolitan Ballet Academy, USA; San Francisco Ballet School, USA) Sasha De Sola - Soloist (Kirov Academy of Ballet, USA) Daniel Deivison-Oliveira - Soloist (San Francisco Ballet School, USA; Cia Brasileira de Ballet, BRAZIL) Esteban Hernandez- Corps- (The Royal Ballet School, UK; The Rock School for Dance Education, USA) Koto Ishihara – Corps – (Yukie Ballet School, JAPAN; Shiho Kanazawa Ballet, JAPAN; The Harid Conservatory, USA; San Francisco Ballet School, USA)
Steven Morse- Corps- (San Francisco Ballet School, USA; Maple Conservatory of Dance, USA) Chisako Oga- Apprentice – (San Francisco Ballet School, USA) John-Paul Simoens- Corps (JKO, USA; Houston Ballet, USA; Royal Ballet, UK; San Francisco Ballet School, USA)
Anthony (Spaulding) Vincent - Soloist (San Francisco Ballet School, USA; Arizona Ballet School, USA) Jennifer Stahl - Soloist (San Francisco Ballet School, USA; Classical Ballet Academy, USA) Myles Thatcher - (San Francisco Ballet School, USA; The Harid Conservatory, USA) Sarah Van Patten - Principal (Ballet Workshop, USA) Wei Wang - (Beijing Dance Academy, P.R. OF CHINA) Lonnie Weeks- Corps - (Texas Ballet Theater School, USA; Faubourg School of Ballet, USA) WanTing Zhao- Corps - (San Francisco Ballet School, USA; Beijing Dance Academy, P.R. OF CHINA)
SARASOTA BALLET (FL, USA) Samantha Benoit - Coryphee (Magda Aunon’s School of Ballet, USA) Paul Branco - (International Ballet Academy, USA) Gabriela Johnson - (Pinellas County Center for the Art at Gibbs High, USA) Logan Learned - Principal (Orlando Ballet, USA) Sam O'Brien - (Joffrey Academy of Dance, The Official School of the Joffrey Ballet, USA) Sareen Tchekmedyian - Coryphee (Southland Ballet Academy, USA) Kelly Yankle - Coryphee (Ballet Met, USA; School of Canton Ballet, USA)
SILICON VALLEY BALLET (CA, USA) Amy Marie Briones - Soloist (Ayako School of Ballet, USA) Alex Kramer – Soloist (JKO/ABT, USA; Institute of Dancing Arts, USA) Kendall Teague - (South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, USA)
SINGAPORE DANCE THEATRE (SINGAPORE) Mai Suzuki – (The National Ballet of Japan, Emiri Ballet House, JAPAN) Kensuke Yorozu - (The Washington School of Ballet, USA; Mie Hatanaka Ballet Studio, JAPAN)
STAR DANCERS BALLET (JAPAN) Kazusa Akiyama – (Yuri Kumagai Ballet Class, JAPAN) Yurie Hayashi – (Star Dancers Ballet Studio, JAPAN) Nao Ikejiri – (Tazuru Ichiyanagi Ballet School, JAPAN) Miko Matsumoto – (Yumi Miyazaki Ballet Studio, JAPAN) Asako Minami – (Ballet Studio Fairy, JAPAN) Kei Sekiguchi – (Ballet Studio DUO, JAPAN)
STATE PRIMORSKY OPERA AND BALLET THEATER (RUSSIA) Joseph Phillips - (South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts, USA; Carolina Ballet, USA)
STUTTGART BALLET (GERMANY) Rocio Aleman - Demi Solist (John Cranko School, GERMANY; Escuela Superior de Musica y Danza de Monterrey, MEXICO) Constantine Allen - Principal (John Cranko School, GERMANY; Kirov Ballet Academy, USA) Noan Alves - (John Cranko School, GERMANY; Ballet Jovem de São Vicente, BRAZIL)
Elisa Badenes - Principal (The Royal Ballet, UK; Conservatorio Profesional de Danza de Valenzia, SPAIN) Daniel Camargo - Principal (John Cranko School, GERMANY; Teatro Guaira Ballet School, BRAZIL) Ayaka Fujii - (Soda Ballet School, JAPAN) Fernanda Lopes - (John Cranko School, GERMANY; Ballet Jovem de São Vicente, BRAZIL) Alexander McGowen - (John Cranko School, GERMANY; Ballet Austin, USA) Paula Rezende - (John Cranko School, GERMANY; Balê da Ilha, BRAZIL) Elizabeth Wisenberg - Demi Soloist (Canada’s National Ballet School, CANADA; Mayra Northern Classical Ballet School, USA) Angelina Zuccarini - Soloist (John Cranko School, GERMANY; Academy of Dance Arts, USA)
TANI MOMOKO BALLET (JAPAN) Ayaka Fujihara – (Aoitori Ballet, JAPAN) Kazuhisa Hiyama – Soloist (Ballet Studio DUO, JAPAN) Ayano Kaneko – (Tomiko Harada Ballet Studio, JAPAN) Naoki Makimura – (Yukari Ballet, JAPAN) Dai Sakai – Soloist (Reiko Otsuka Ballet Studio, JAPAN) Yudai Shinozaki – (KAORI Ballet Studio, JAPAN) Nanako Takeuchi – (Swan Ballet Institute, JAPAN) Emi Tanaka – (Iyoda Ballet Studio, JAPAN) Haruka Uetake – (Asuka Ballet Class, JAPAN) Ai Utsugi – (Anna Ballet Studio, JAPAN) Hinako Yamaguchi – (Ballet Studio Symphony, JAPAN) Ryoma Yamashina – Soloist (Mihoko Maruyama Ballet School, JAPAN) Yuuna Yoshida – (Suzuki Classic Ballet Academy, JAPAN)
TEXAS BALLET THEATRE (TX, USA) Alexandra Farber - (Maryland Youth Ballet, USA) Angela Kenny - (The Royal Ballet School, UK) Nicole Von Enck - (North Carolina Dance Theatre, USA; Royal Youth Ballet Company, USA)
THEATER NORDHAUSEN (GERMANY) Daisuke Sogawa – (Tanz Akademie Zurich, ZURICH) (Soda Ballet School, JAPAN)
THE TOKYO BALLET (JAPAN) Daichi Matsuno - (Ballet Studio DUO, JAPAN) Yurika Mikumo – (Yukiko Kato Ballet, JAPAN) Miyuki Nakagawa - (Miyashita Yasuko Ballet School, JAPAN) Fumi Ogawa - (Petit Pointe, JAPAN)
TOKYO CITY BALLET (JAPAN) Saori Hirata – (J. Honda Ballet, JAPAN) Aoi Kishimoto – (Soda Ballet School, JAPAN) Kaori Matsumoto – (Koshiba Hazaki Ballet School, JAPAN) Haruka Ohgi – (Jun Ballet Gakuen, JAPAN) Haruka Sassa – (Houston Ballet Academy, USA) (Kei’s Ballet, JAPAN) Makoto Tamaura – (Michiko Honda Ballet School, JAPAN) Kazuma Uchimura – (Tazuru Ichiyanagi Ballet School, JAPAN)
TULSA BALLET (OK, USA) Cavan Conley - (The Harid Conservatory, USA)
Jaimi Cullen - (Ellison Ballet Professional Training Program, USA; Timothy M. Draper Center for Dance Education, USA) Jennifer Grace – Demi-Soloist (Dmitri Kulev Classical Ballet, USA) Maine Kawashima - (Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, USA) Erin Pritchard - (Orlando Ballet School, USA) Chandler Proctor – (International Ballet Academy, USA) Andrew Silks - (Ellison Ballet Professional Training Program, USA; Dance Arts Los Alamos, USA) Shion Yuasa - (San Francisco Ballet School, USA; Canada’s School of Alberta Ballet, CANADA)
VICTOR ULLATE BALLET (SPAIN) Phillipe Solano – (Paris Opera Ballet, Jeune Ballet Mediterranean, FRANCE)
VIENNA STATE OPERA BALLET (AUSTRIA) Leonardo Basilio - (Tanz Akademie Zurich, SWITZERLAND) Ryan Booth - (Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, CANADA) Alaia Rogers - (The Art of Classical Ballet, USA)
VENEMUINE THEATER BALLET (ESTONIA) Tarasina Masi - (USA Ballet Academy, USA)
THE WASHINGTON BALLET (DC, USA) Kateryna Derechyna - (Odessa Ballet Opera, UKRAINE) Francesca Dugarte - (Academia de Ballet Clasico Nina Novak, VENEZUELA) Ayano Kimura - (Essen Ballet, GERMANY; Soda Ballet School, JAPAN) Brooklyn Mack - (The Kirov Academy of Ballet, USA; Pavlovich Dance School, USA) Tamako Miyazaki - (La Scala Theatre Ballet Schoole, ITALY; Kaneta Kono Ballet Academy, JAPAN) Andile Ndlovu - (Ballet Theatre Afrikan, AFRICA) Maki Onuki - (John Cranko School, GERMANY; Goh Ballet, CANADA) Claire Rathbun - (The Rock School for Education, USA) Daniel Roberge - (National College of Dance, AUSTRALIA; Marie Walton-Mahon Dance Academy, USA)
WEST AUSTRALIA BALLET (AUSTRALIA) André Santos – Soloist (Pavilhao D Dance School, BRAZIL)
Left the Company: Joel Woellner HOUSTON BALLET – (Effingshausens Dynamic Arts, AUSTRALIA)
Deanna Pearson HOUSTON BALLET– (Akhmedova Ballet Academy, USA) Jim Nowakowski - Demi Soloist HOUSTON BALLET (Timothy M. Draper Center for Dance Education, USA) Nozomi Iijima – Soloist Houston Ballet (Houston Ballet’s Ben Stevenson Academy, USA; Soda Ballet School, JAPAN) Dustin Shane Spero - (Orlando Ballet, USA; Dayton Ballet, USA) Shuko Hasegawa – Asami Maki Ballet Company Tokyo – (Koshiba Hazaki Ballet School, JAPAN) Akane Nagai – Asami Maki Ballet Company Tokyo - (Yuki Miho Ballet, JAPAN) Megumi Nagai – Asami Maki Ballet Company Tokyo - (Yuki Miho Ballet, JAPAN) Mao Suzuki – Asami Maki Ballet Company Tokyo - (Naotoshi & Keiko Suzuki Ballet School, JAPAN) Masumi Tagiri – Asami Maki Ballet Company Tokyo - (Yuki Miho Ballet, JAPAN) Reina Takeishi – Asami Maki Ballet Company Tokyo - (Tachibana Ballet School, JAPAN) Aya Tanabe – Asami Maki Ballet Company Tokyo - (Sachiko Ogura Ballet Studio, JAPAN) Breanne Coughlin – Ballet Arizona - (The Washington School of Ballet, USA) Courtney Muscroft – BalletMet Columbus - (Columbus Youth Ballet, USA) Yuto Ideno – Ballett Dortmund - (Mie Hatanka Ballet School, JAPAN) Takahiro Tamagawa - Ballett Dortmund - (The Royal Ballet School, UK; Etoile Ballet School, JAPAN) Kyohei Giovanni Yoshida – Grand Rapids Ballet - (The Rock School for Dance Education, USA; Elmhurst for Dance, UK; Tokyo Ballet School, JAPAN) Whitney Jensen – Principal – Boston Ballet - (Valentina Kozlova NY Dance Conservatory, USA; Park City Ballet, USA) Rina Osanai – Coastal City Ballet - (Orlando Ballet, USA; The Rock School for Dance Education, USA; Homura Tomoi Ballet School, JAPAN) Miguel Nguyen – Coastal City Ballet - (Orlando Ballet, USA; Goh Ballet Academy, CANADA) Samuel Jones – Cincinnati Ballet - (The Joffrey Ballet, USA) Lucas Wilson-Bilbro – Charlotte Ballet - (The Rock School for Dance Education, USA) Caue Frias Duarte – Czech National Ballet - Demi-Soloist (Houston Ballet II, USA; New Zealand School of Dance, NEW ZEALAND) Veronika Verterich – Dutch National Ballet – (Valentina Kozlova’s Dance Conservatory of New York, USA) Miles Pertl – Dutch National Ballet - (John Cranko School, GERMANY) (Northwest Ballet School, USA) Ryosuke Morimoto – Dutch National Ballet -(Junior CO) (Tanaka Ballet Art, JAPAN) Issac Hernandez – Dutch National Ballet -(Soloist) (The Rock School for Dance Education, USA) Bridgett Zehr - English National Ballet- (Houston Ballet Ben Stevenson Academy, USA; The Harid Conservatory, USA) Emily Loscocco – Festival Ballet Providence- (Dancing Arts Center, USA; Kirov Ballet Academy, USA) Millis Faust – Finnish National Ballet - (The Royal Ballet, UK; The Rock School for Dance Education, USA) Hannah Beach – The Hamburg Ballet - (The Royal Ballet School, UK; Next Generation Ballet at Patel Conservatory, USA) Philip Fedulov – Georgian National Ballet Renee Kester – Houston Ballet - (Southland Ballet Academy, USA) Alexis Polito – Joffrey Ballet (The Washington School of Ballet, USA; School of American Ballet, USA; Joffrey Academy of Dance, The Official School of the Joffrey Ballet l, USA) Aaron Smyth – Joffrey Ballet (JKO/ABT, USA) Miyu Katayama – K Ballet Solhwa Kim- K Ballet (Art Ballet Kohira, JAPAN)
Chiei Kunitomo – K Ballet (Ito Michiko Ballet Studio, JAPAN) Liora Neuville - PNB (Pacific Northwest Ballet School, USA; National School of Dance, FRANCE) Phillipe Solano – (Paris Opera Ballet, Jeune Ballet Mediterranean, FRANCE) Ayano Tsuchiya – The National Ballet of Japan (Setsuko Ichikawa Ballet, JAPAN) Ayaka Enomoto – The National Ballet of Japan (Fumi Dancing Academy, JAPAN) Misako Mouri – The National Ballet of Japan (The Washington School of Ballet, USA) (Soda Ballet School, JAPAN) Remi Iida – The Tokyo Ballet (Sofia Ballet Academy, JAPAN) Rui Koyama - The Tokyo Ballet (Michiko Ito Ballet Studio, JAPAN) Claudia Dean – The Royal Ballet (The Royal Ballet School, UK; Prudence Bowen’s Ballet Studio, AUSTRALIA) Arata Miyagawa – The Royal New Zealand Ballet (John Cranko School, GERMANY) Megan Amanda Erlich – San Francisco Ballet (Kirov Academy of Ballet, USA; Space Coast Ballet Academy, USA) Emily Kadow – San Francisco Ballet (JKO/ABT, USA; Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, USA) Luis Piva Jr. – Singapore Dance Theatre (The New Zealand School of Dance, NEW ZEALAND; Karen Righetto Ballet, BRAZIL) Hiroko Asami – Staatstheater Mains, Germany- (Dresden State Opera Ballet, GERMANY; L’Ecole de Danse de l’Opera, FRANCE; Reiko Otsuka Ballet Studio, JAPAN) Akari Ehara – Tani Momoko Ballet (Tobisawa Ballet School, JAPAN) Sayaka Tanno – Tani Momoko Ballet (Soki Ballet School, JAPAN) Tomomi Sasaki – Tani Momoko Ballet (Ballet Class Studio Feel, JAPAN) Erika Maehara – Tani Momoko (Urano Ballet School, JAPAN) Luis Delcid – Tulsa Ballet (Marat Daukayev School of Dance, USA; The Rock School for Dance Education, USA; The Kirov Academy of Washington D.C., USA) Andre Pisarev – Ukrainian National Ballet (Soloist) (Donetsk Ballet school, UKRAINE) Aurora Dickie - The Washington Ballet- (Cisne Negro Cia de Dança, BRAZIL; Bolshoi Ballet School, BRAZIL) Anna Ishii –West Australia Ballet- (New Zealand School of Dance, NEW ZEALAND) (Kazuko Sugihara Ballet Art, JAPAN) Mayo Arii - (The School of Hamburg Ballet, GERMANY; International Ballet Academy, JAPAN) John Mark Giragosian - Joffrey - (Maryland Youth Ballet, USA) Asia Bui – (Houston Ballet II, USA, Harid Conservatory, USA, America’s Ballet School, USA)