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Awards and Scholarships

Scholarships/awards of season 2020-2021

YAGP CHICAGO

  • Top 12 Pre Competitive Contemporary – Toscane Acket
  • Top 12 Pre Competitive Classical – Adriana Oleksy, Ella Wells, Toscane Acket
  • Top 12 Junior Contemporary – Norah Meekins
  • Top 24 Junior Classical – Arden Jungmann, Olivia Raymond, Zoe Shemet
  • Top 12 Junior Classical – Norah Meekins
  • Top 12 Senior Contemporary – Katie Raymond
  • Top 24 Senior Classical – Katie Raymond, Nyla Meekins, Savannah Yopp
  • Top 12 Senior Classical – Carmen Rossi
  • Top 12 Ensembles – A Conversation: Norah and Nyla Meekins duet, Phases, The Heaviness We Carry
  • 2nd Place for all Ensembles
  • Outstanding School Award

 

YAGP INDY

  • Top 12 Ensembles – A Conversation: Norah and Nyla Meekins duet
  • Top 24 Junior Classical – Yulianna Kowalczyk
  • Top 12 Junior Classical – Zoe Shemet
  • Top 12 Senior Contemporary – Abigail Jenkins, Nyla Meekins
  • 2nd Place Senior Classical – Carmen Rossi

Invitation to YAGP Finals in Tampa for: A Conversation-Duet, Etched, The Heaviness We Carry, Waltz of the Flowers, Gayane, and Garment.

YAGP Finals In Tampa – “Garment “ top 12 groups competition (choreography Ivan Poroshin)

 

ADC IBC

  • Abigail Jenkins
    International Ballet Academy – SI Partial Scholarship
    Ballet West – SI Acceptance
    Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre – SI Partial Scholarship
  • Norah Meekins
    Atlanta Ballet Boys Ballet SI and Ladies Workshop – Acceptance
    Tulsa Ballet – SI Partial Scholarship
    Cary Ballet – SI Acceptance
    Ballet West – SI Acceptance
  • Nyla Meekins
    Cary Ballet – SI Acceptance
    Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre – SI Partial Scholarship
  • Marisa Rakoski
    Tulsa Ballet – SI Acceptance
  • Carmen Rossi
    Ballet West – SI Acceptance
  • Zoe Shemet
    Cary Ballet – SI Acceptance
    Ballet West – SI Acceptance

Previous scholarships/awards

  • Mrs. Valentina got “Outstanding Teacher Award” at YAGP in 2003, 2005 and 2014 years.
  • She got “Best Choreographer ” award in YAGP 2002.
  • “Best Studio” award in 2006 ( She prepared Juliana’s Ballet Company to YAGP that time ) .
  • “Best Teacher Award ” at WBAC competition in 2016.
  • Student of Mrs. Valentina – Maria Beck got 3 Rd place in NYC YAGP Finals in Pre-Competitive category.
  • Maria Beck – top 10 in Junior Category in NYC YAGP Finals , Full Scholarship to Kirov Ballet Academy in Washington D.C.

Students Awards on YAGP

YAGP 2016 (Indiana)

Top 12 in Seniors Classical Category:

  • Jessica Raymond
  • Mackenzie Bartlett

Top 12 in Seniors Contemporary Category:

  • Gabrielle Girard


Top 24 in Seniors Classical Category:

  • Gabrielle Girard
  • 3 Ensembles got in 2 place and was invited to NYC YAGP Finals.

YAGP 2016 (Toronto)

Top 12 Seniors Classical:

  • Jessica Raymond


Top 24 Seniors Classical:

  • Alyssa Strasser
  • Izabella Bonito

Top 12 in Pre-Competitive Classical and Contemporary:

  • Emily Fry
  • Margaret Martin
  • Elizabeth George
  • 2 Ensembles got in 3 place and was invited to NYC YAGP Finals.

Scholarships:

  • Bolshoi Academy Summer Intensive – Jessica Raymond , Erin Lutman , Sonya Park , Mikayla Anderson.
  • Ballet West – Arianna Nava , Erin Lutman
    Ballet Met – Cody Rowan, Jessica Raymond.
  • Boston Conservatory – Lily Massie
  • Complexion Ballet Summer Intensive – Rachel Hatton, Elizabeth George
  • Kirov Academy ( year round program ) – Sarah Sellers
  • Bolshoi Academy in Moscow (year round program) – Mackenzie Bartlett, Gabrielle Girard.
  • Belorussian Ballet School (Year round program) – Riley McGuire
  • Boston Ballet School (year round program) – Bridget Miller