Youth America Grand Prix 2015 New York Finals Scholarship Awards and Professional Job Contracts

Professional Job Contracts:

Ballet West

Trainee Alexandria Marx – Next Generation Ballet at the Patel Conservatory, USA

Houston Ballet

Apprentice Shogo Hayama – John Cranko School , GERMANY

Joffrey Ballet

Trainee Jordan DePina – Long Beach Ballet Academy, USA

Orlando Ballet

Trainee Derek Drilon – Independent, USA

West Australian Ballet

Full Contract Vida Polakov – Tanya Pearson Classical Coaching Academy, AUSTRALIA

Professional School Scholarships:

American Ballet Theatre JKO School

Full Year Levi Durie – Next Generation Ballet at the Patel Conservatory, USA

Short Term Liam Boswell – Next Generation Ballet at the Patel Conservatory, USA

Ballet Academy of the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich

Short Term Jenna Burns – Draper Center for Dance Education, USA

Ballet West Academy

Short Term: Dasha Waldemer – Iowa Ballet Academy, IA, USA

Berlin State Ballet School

Short Term Zoe Cavedon – Regional Academy of Performing Art, AUSTRALIA Anastasia Miller – Academy of Ballet and Jazz, CANADA Tucker Nickman – Next Generation Ballet at the Patel Conservatory, USA Evan Leigh Thornton – Vitacca Dance Project, USA

Canada’s National Ballet School

Short Term Ethan Clarisey – Hartt School Community Division, USA Riku Hirakoba – Arte Yamanouchi Ballet School, JAPAN Bomin Kim – Sunhwa Arts Middle and High School, REPUBLIC OF KOREA Bella Kirby – Orlando Ballet School, USA Satya Tranfield – Charleston Ballet Theatre Center for Dance Education, USA

Canada’s School

Full Year Jordan DePina – Long Beach Ballet Academy, USA Monika Haczkiewicz – Tara Foy’s Elite Ballet, USA Meghan Lynch – The Academy of Dance Arts, USA James Rogers – University of North Carolina School of the Arts, USA

Short Term Monika Haczkiewicz – Tara Foy’s Elite Ballet, USA Meghan Lynch – The Academy of Dance Arts, USA Ellie Wong – MorningStar Dance Academy of Atlanta, USA Kaitlyn Zylka – Florida School for Dance Education, USA Elmhurst School for Dance

Short Term Zoe Cavedon – Regional Academy of Performing Arts, AUSTRALIA

English National Ballet School

Short Term Lola Crist – Yuri Grigoriev School of Ballet, USA

Houston Ballet Academy

Short Term Tessa Hartmann – Next Generation at the Patel Conservatory, USA James Rogers – University of North Carolina School of the Arts, USA Dasha Waldemer – Iowa Ballet Academy, USA

John Cranko School

Full Year Christopher Kunzelmann – Next Generation Ballet at the Patel Conservatory, USA Natalie Thornley-Hall – Next Generation Ballet at the Patel Conservatory, USA Madeline Woo – V & T Dance, USA

North Carolina School of the Arts

Full Year Alban Costello – Southold Dance Theater, USA

Orlando Ballet School

Short Term Scholarship Derek Drilon – Independent, USA Shayna Mayes – St. Augustine Dance Conservatory and The Perla School, FL, USA Reina Stamm – All American Classical Ballet School, FL, USA Kaitlyn Zylka – Florida School for Dance Education, FL, USA

Paris Opera Ballet School

Short Term Diogo de Oliveira – Escola Domus Danca, PORTUGAL

Princess Grace Academy

Full Year Yuri Isaka – Toio Yuko Ballet Theater, JAPAN Andres Zuniga – The Rock School for Dance Education, USA

Short Term Antonio Casalinho – Annarella Academia de Ballet e Danca, PORTUGAL Isabella Fraco – Marat Daukayev School of Ballet, USA

The Academy Summer Intensive

Short Term Jordan Coutts – Yuri Grigoriev School of Ballet, USA Marlena Umland – Academy of International Ballet, USA

The HARID Conservatory

Short Term Zoe Cavedon – Regional Academy of Performing Arts, AUSTRALIA Cy Doherty – International Ballet Academy, USA Samuel Gest – Evansville Ballet, USA

The Rock School for Dance Education

Short Term: Madeleine Shillington – Master Ballet Academy, AZ, USA

Zurich Dance Academy

Full Year Scholarship: Xu Zi Yu – Beijing Dance Academy, P.R. OF CHINA