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Scholarships/awards of season 2020-2021

2023 ADC IBC FINALS 

Senior Division Top 25 Norah Meekins 

SCHOLARSHIPS 

Norah Meekins

  • Partial Tuition to BalletMet Trainee 23-24, Full Tuition for Summer Intensive & Company Rep Program 
  • Invitation to Ballet West Summer Intensive 
  • 25% Tuition to BBSI Partnering Workshop 
  • Partial to Cary Ballet Summer Intensive 
  • Full Tuition to Eglevsky Ballet Experience 
  • Partial Tuition to International Ballet Academy Intensive 
  • Invitation to Nashville Ballet Professional Division Year-Round Program 
  • Tuition for Richmond Ballet Intensive 
  • Summer Intensive acceptance to Washington School of Ballet with consideration for Full Year Elite Professional Training Division 

Annie Castellanos 

  • Partial Tuition to Cary Ballet Young Dancer Initiative 
  • Partial Tuition to BalletMet Junior Summer Intensive 

Gretchen Zerling 

  • Partial Tuition to Cary Ballet Young Dancer Initiative 
  • Partial Tuition to BalletMet Junior Summer Intensive 

 

2024 ADC IBC FINALS 

Primary Division Top 15 Faith Richardson 

Junior Division Top 25 Scarlett Lavery 

SCHOLARSHIPS 

Scarlett Lavery 

  • Partial Tuition BalletMet Summer Intensive 

Faith Richardson 

  • Partial Tuition BalletMet Junior Intensive 
  • Partial Tuition Rock School Intensive 
  • Direct Acceptance to Premier Coaching Intensive & Classical Variations at Ellison Ballet 

Annie Castellanos 

  • Acceptance to Intermediate Summer Intensive at Ballet Idaho 

Cora Peraino 

  • Partial Tuition BalletMet Junior Intensive 

Gretchen Zerling 

  • Partial Tuition Rock School Intensive

 

2025 ADC IBC FINALS 

Junior Division Top 25 Scarlett Lavery 

SCHOLARSHIPS 

Norah Meekins 

  • Acceptance to New Ballet San Jose Second/Studio Company 
  • Full Tuition to Ballet Rhode Island Trainee and Partial Tuition to Professional Training Program
  • Partial to BalletMet Trainee 
  • Partial to Sarasota Ballet Trainee and Summer Intensive 
  • Acceptance to PBT Professional Training Program and Summer Intensive
  • Full Tuition Art of Movement Summer Intensive 
  • Partial Tuition to BalletMet Summer Intensive 
  • Partial Tuition to BBSI Partnering Workshop Summer Intensive 
  • Full Tuition to Eglevsky Ballet Summer Intensive and Short Stay Ballet Experience
  • Full Tuition to The Washington Ballet Summer Intensive 

Annie Castellanos 

  • Partial Tuition to Ballet Rhode Island Summer Intensive 
  • Partial Tuition to BalletMet Summer Intensive 
  • Acceptance to International Ballet Academy Summer Intensive 
  • Acceptance to Orlando Ballet Summer Intensive 
  • Acceptance to Short Stay at Sarasota Ballet 

Cora Peraino 

  • Acceptance to BalletMet Summer Intensive 

Gretchen Zerling 

  • Partial Tuition to BalletMet Summer Intensive 
  • Acceptance to European School of Ballet Summer Intensive 
  • Partial Tuition to International Ballet Academy Summer Intensive 
  • Partial Tuition to Next Generation Summer Intensive 

Tatiana Avci 

  • Acceptance to BalletMet Summer Intensive 
  • Acceptance to Orlando Ballet Summer Intensive 

 

2023 YAGP CHICAGO 

Senior Women Classical Top 12 Norah Meekins 

Senior Women’s Classical Top 24 Arden Jungmann 

Senior Women’s Contemporary Top 24 Arden Jungmann, Norah Meekins, Nyla Meekins Junior Women’s Classical Top 24 Sophia Cho 

Pre-Competitive Classical 3rd Place Faith Richardson 

Pre-Competitive Classical Top 12 Annie Castellanos, Cora Peraino 

Pre-Competitive Classical Top 24 Gretchen Zerling, Tatiana Avci 

Pre-Competitive Contemporary 1st Place Annie Castellanos 

Pre-Competitive Contemporary Top 12 Cora Peraino, Faith Richardson 

Large Ensemble 3rd Place 

Outstanding Teacher Award – Faculty

 

2024 YAGP PITTSBURGH 

Senior Women’s Classical Top 12 Arden Jungmann, Yulianna Kowalczyk 

Senior Women’s Contemporary Top 12 Arden Jungmann 

Junior Men & Women Classical Top 12 Scarlett Lavery 

Junior Men & Women Classical Top 24 Tatiana Avci 

Pre-Competitive Men & Women Classical 3rd Place Faith Richardson 

Pre-Competitive Men & Women Classica Top 12 Cora Peraino, Gretchen Zerling Pre-Competitive Men & Women Contemporary 1st Place Faith Richardson 

Pre-Competitive Men & Women Contemporary Top 12 Annie Castellanos, Cora Peraino Large Ensemble 1st Place 

Outstanding School Award 

 

2025 YAGP INDIANAPOLIS 

Senior Men & Women Classical Top 12 Norah Meekins 

Junior Men & Women Classical Top 12 Annie Castellanos, Bella Yi 

Junior Men & Women Classical Top 24 Cora Peraiono, Gretchen Zerling, Tatiana Avci Junior Men & Women Contemporary Top 12 Faith Richardson 

Junior Men & Women Contemporary Top 24 Anna Maria Krakowiak, Annie Castellanos, Faith Richardson. Pre-Competitive Men & Women Contemporary Top 12 Clara Khaled 

Large Ensemble 2nd Place 

2 Large Ensembles Top 12 

Outstanding School Award 

 

2023 WBAC DETROIT 

Classical Group C 1st Place Cora Peraino 

Classical Group D 1st Place Scarlett Lavery 

Group D Potential Award Hugh Domenic Defer 

Group C Contemporary 3rd Place Cora Peraino 

Group D Contemporary 1st Place Scarlett Lavery 

Group D Contemporary 3rd Place Sophia Cho 

Best Teacher Award – Valentina Barsukova, Natalia Makina 

Best School Award 

Finals Invitation-Cora Peraino, Scarlett Lavery, Sophia Cho, Amelia Defer 

 

2023 WBAC FINALS 

Group D Classical 5th Place Scarlett Lavery 

Group D Contemporary 1st Place Scarlett Lavery 

Best School Award 

SCHOLARSHIPS 

Scarlett Lavery 

  • School of Canada National Ballet 

 

2024 WBAC DETROIT 

Group C Classical 1st Place Faith Richardson 

Group C Classical 2nd Place Gretchen Zerling 

Group C Classical 3rd Place Annie Castellanos 

Group C Classical 10th Place Anna Yi

Group D Classical 1st Place Scarlett Lavery 

Group D Classical 2nd Place Bella Yi 

Group D Classical 6th Place Tatiana Avci 

Group D Classical 10th Place Luciana Diaz 

Group D Classical 3rd Place Hugh Domenic Defer 

Group E Classical 1st Place Norah Meekins 

Group E Classical 3rd Place Sophia Cho 

Group E Classical 4th Place Leena Kraytem 

Group E Classical 5th Place Mia Sky Blind 

Group E Classical 6th Place Amelia Defer 

Group C Contemporary 2nd Place Faith Richardson 

Group C Contemporary 3rd Place Gretchen Zerling 

Group C Contemporary 5th Place Anna Yi 

Group D Contemporary 1st Place Scarlett Lavery 

Group D Contemporary 3rd Place Tatiana Avci 

Group D Contemporary 4th Place Bella Yi 

Group D Contemporary POtential Award Luciana Diaz, Daphne Moser 

Group E Contemporary 1st Place Norah Meekins 

Group E Contemporary 2nd Place Mia Sky Blind 

Group E Contemporary 5th Place Leena Kraytem 

Group E Contemporary Potential Award Sophia Cho, Amelia Defer 

Best Teacher Award Valentina Barsukova, Natalia Makina 

Best Choreography Award Rebecca Grden 

Best School Award 

Finals Invitation-Faith Richardson, Gretchen Zerling, Annie Castellanos, Anna Yi, Scarlett Lavery, Bella Yi, Tatiana Avci, Luciana Diaz, Daphne Moser, Hugh Domenic Defer, Norah Meekins, Sophia Cho, Leena Kraytem, Mia Sky Blind, Amelia Defer, Lily Khaled 

 

2024 WBAC FINALS 

Group C Classical 3rd Place Faith Richardson 

Group D Classical 2nd Place Scarlett Lavery 

Group D Potential Award Bella Yi 

Group D Boys Potential Award Hugh Domenic Defer 

Group C Contemporary 3rd Place Faith Richardson 

Group D Contemporary 3rd Place Scarlett Lavery 

Best School Award 

SCHOLARSHIPS 

Scarlett Lavery 

  • Canada’s National Ballet School 
  • 75% Tuition The Rock School 

Bella Yi 

  • 50% Tuition The Rock School 

Faith Richardson 

  • 50% Tuition The Rock School 

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