ABT Stars Skylar Brandt and Aran Bell React to their YAGP Childhood Performances
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American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancers Skylar Brandt and Aran Bell react to their old performances on the YAGP stage. Watch their live reactions to their younger selves! Video produced by Cy Doherty.
Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) is the world's largest student ballet scholarship competition and global dance network, connecting students, teachers, schools, dance companies, and audiences worldwide. Now in its 22nd season, YAGP has reached more than 150,000 participants worldwide through its international ballet workshops, ballet auditions, ballet competitions, and ballet master classes.
To date, over $4 million has been awarded to young dancers in scholarships to leading dance schools worldwide, including The Ailey School, American Ballet Theatre JKO School, The Australian Ballet School, Ballet West Academy, Berlin State Ballet School, Bolshoi Ballet Academy Summer Intensive, Boston Ballet School, Canada’s National Ballet School, Dutch National Ballet Academy, English National Ballet School, European School of Ballet, Houston Ballet Academy, John Cranko School of The Stuttgart Ballet, The Juilliard School, Paris Opera Ballet School, Princess Grace Academy, The Rock School for Dance Education, The Royal Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, The Washington School of Ballet, and Zurich Dance Academy, among other preeminent institutions in the U.S. and abroad.
YAGP’s alumni success stories include some of the most prominent ballet stars in the dance world today: Maria Abashova, Constantine Allen, Sterling Baca, Elisa Badenes, Aran Bell, Isabella Boylston, Skylar Brandt, Jeffrey Cirio, Lia Cirio, Cesar Corrales, Michaela DePrince, Sasha De Dola, Derek Dunn, Isaac Hernandez, Mathias Heymann, Kimin Kim, Lauren Lovette, Julian MacKay, Maia Makhateli, Sara Mearns, Vadim Muntagirov, May Nagahisa, Hannah O’Neill, Calvin Royal III, Marcelino Sambé, Beckanne Sisk, Hee Seo, Christine Shevchenko, Taylor Stanley, James Whiteside, WanTing Zhao, and many other notable alumni.
Past guest artists of the annual YAGP Gala at Lincoln Center have included such luminaries as Nina Ananiashvili, Roberto Bolle, Ashley Bouder, Darcey Bussell, José Manuel Carreño, Misty Copeland, Robert Fairchild, Marcelo Gomes, David Hallberg, Maria Kochetkova, Ekaterina Kondaurova, Isabelle Guerin, Lucia Lacarra, Manuel Legris, Vladimir Malakhov, Gillian Murphy, Marianela Nunez, Evgenia Obraztsova, Natalia Osipova*, Xander Parish, Tiler Peck, Tamara Rojo, Daniil Simkin, Polina Semionova*, Olga Smirnova, Yuan Yuan Tan, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, Daniel Ulbricht, Ivan Vasiliev*, Diana Vishneva, Wendy Whelan, and many other dance legends.
Youth America Grand Prix: www.yagp.org
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Aran from First Position! His dad's interviews on that documentary always melted my heart as a parent and teacher.
Omg he’s principal dancer already? Omg he’s so young! Amazing!
@PetulaGuimaraes
6 ай бұрын
To see how he was already at 10/11 years old… not that surprising!
omg aran from First Position i legit will not forget watching that for the first time and feeling so inspired
@YAGP
2 жыл бұрын
Feels nostalgic! We have a full video of Aran's old performances at YAGP - have you seen it? 🤗 kzread.info/dash/bejne/goVmls-AabDFnso.html
It’s beautiful, Aran, it makes me so happy to see you succeed and continue this wonderful journey! You continue surprising us with your abilities.
@YAGP
Жыл бұрын
It's been so cool to see Aran's amazing journey in ballet! You might like this video of Aran performing at the YAGP finals when he was 10: kzread.info/dash/bejne/goVmls-AabDFnso.html
Loved seeing Skylar's transformation! I was so lucky to watch her during ABT's Swan Lake in Singapore! My idollllllll is so amazing 😍😍😍
@YAGP
2 жыл бұрын
She's a brilliant dancer indeed! Who are other YAGP alumni that you're fond of? Maybe we could feature them as well 😉
@nameless9796
2 жыл бұрын
@@YAGP Remie Goins and Mika fogarty would be amazing!
@shania_
2 жыл бұрын
@@YAGP there are so many alumni that i admire! Natasha Furman, Remie Goins, and maybe any alumni in Vaganova or ABT/Mariinsky/Boishoi would be great to watch!!!
@YAGP
2 жыл бұрын
@@shania_ Wonderful, noted! ✨
@sofiaaniceto5807
2 жыл бұрын
@@nameless9796 o o on. Mmm mmm m Mm
So nice seeing Skylar and Aran reflect on their YAGP days!
@YAGP
2 жыл бұрын
We agree! Have you see this video with Wanting and Benjamin reacting to their old days at YAGP? kzread.info/dash/bejne/gHiflM1qprbgetI.html
Love this! ✨😍
@YAGP
2 жыл бұрын
Also check out Skylar's amazing journey from a budding YAGP participant to a true star she is now ✨😍 kzread.info/dash/bejne/fX97k8qHdbPeoJM.html
aran🤩
@YAGP
2 жыл бұрын
He's the best! Have you seen a full video of Aran's performance at YAGP? 🤗 Enjoy! kzread.info/dash/bejne/goVmls-AabDFnso.html
this is so cute! 😊
@YAGP
2 жыл бұрын
Have you seen this vid of another YAGP alumna Catherine Hurlin reacting to her old YAGP performances? Check it out and stay tuned for more reaction videos 😊 kzread.info/dash/bejne/qIlp2airXbOffrg.html
Wow that flip @ 6:20!!! Beautiful dancing. He is so handsome.
@YAGP
2 жыл бұрын
Check out another handsome YAGP guy with awesome jumps - Brooklyn Mack 😍 kzread.info/dash/bejne/oH92xtiQqsuzf9Y.html
@YAGP
2 жыл бұрын
Also, take a look at this cutie - that's a full video of 10y.o. Aran performing at YAGP 🤗 kzread.info/dash/bejne/goVmls-AabDFnso.html
omggggg BABY ARAN!!!! soooo gooood
@YAGP
2 жыл бұрын
So cute! Have you watched the full video of Aran's old performance at YAGP? 🌟 Enjoy! kzread.info/dash/bejne/goVmls-AabDFnso.html
Beautiful partnership!
@YAGP
2 жыл бұрын
Amazing duo, we agree 😍 Have you seen a full video of Aran performing at YAGP? 🤗 Enjoy! kzread.info/dash/bejne/goVmls-AabDFnso.html
@YAGP
2 жыл бұрын
We would also recommend watching this video of Skylar's inspiring journey from YAGP participant to ABT ballet star 🤩 kzread.info/dash/bejne/fX97k8qHdbPeoJM.html
Sometimes I feel like I am less than everyone else at my studio... I probably could never compete in one of these lol
@YAGP
2 жыл бұрын
Dedication is such an important ingredient in the recipe for ballet success, don't give up! 😘 Easier said than done, but try not to compare yourself to your classmates, keep working and absorb all the corrections your teacher makes 🤓 And check out this amazing class woth Marina Leonova from YAGP's partner school the famed Bolshoi Ballet Academy kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZIulrrmlot3IocY.html
I enjoyed the videos but could easily do WITHOUT the silly constant laughter and self deprecating comments by these two. They are very talented but lack maturity and professional perspectives of their unusual gifts realized in their earlier years. Somewhat unflattering to their personalities, BUT their dancing is extraordinary...including the videos which they laughingly put down...genuinely??????
@margaretchoffel6898
2 жыл бұрын
They are still very young.... They were extraordinary then, they are now... They are trying to be modest, I think it is becoming.
@amyparker9816
2 жыл бұрын
They were being modest, Susan. Go complain somewhere else.
@desertrose3511
2 жыл бұрын
They’re literally being modest, and they ARE young. If dancers were serious all the time we would be very depressed. You can go be negative somewhere else because I KNOW you absolutely cannot compare to these two