May Nagahisa is a first soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg Russia. Here she dances the Dulcinea Variation from Don Quixote with choreography originally by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus. At the time she was training at the Masako Fukada Ballet Academy, Japan and later went on to train at Academy Princess Grace, Monaco.
Video produced by VAM
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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 across the globe through its various classical ballet training and dance education opportunities, including international classical ballet workshops, ballet auditions, ballet competitions, ballet and contemporary master classes and ballet performance and technique training 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, Berlin State Ballet School, 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, 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.
More than 450 YAGP alumni are now dancing in over 80 leading companies around the world - American Ballet Theatre, The Australian Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Boston Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Dresden Semperoper Ballett, Finnish National Ballet, Houston Ballet, The Joffrey Ballet, Mariinsky Ballet, Miami City Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, New York City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, The Royal Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Staatsballett Berlin, and The Stuttgart Ballet, among others - with more than 100 of them in soloist or principal dancer positions.
YAGP’s alumni success stories include some of the most prominent ballet stars in the dance world today: Maria Abashova, Constantine Allen, Aran Bell, Isabella Boylston, Skylar Brandt, Cesar Corrales, Michaela DePrince, Sasha De Dola, Derek Dunn, Isaac Hernandez, Mathias Heymann, Kimin Kim, Lauren Lovette, Julian MacKay, Sara Mearns, Vadim Muntagirov, May Nagahisa, Hannah O’Neill, Calvin Royal III, Marcelino Sambé, Beckanne Sisk, Hee Seo, Christine Shevchenko, James Whiteside, WanTing Zhao, and many other notable alumni. For the full list of Alumni please check out our website: yagp.org/alumni-success-stories/
The annual YAGP Gala at Lincoln Center, Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow, features the biggest stars of the world’s leading dance companies, many of whom had their NYC debuts* at the YAGP Gala, alongside the rising ballerinas and male dancers of tomorrow.
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YAGP was the subject of the 2011 award-winning First Position documentary, which followed six participants on their journey to compete at YAGP’s annual NYC Finals.
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