Youth America Grand Prix Male Grand Prix Winners Throughout the Years - World Leading Male Dancers

Enjoy these videos of our past Grand Prix Winners - world leading male dancers!

00:00 Gabriel Figueredo, Age 18, Grand Prix Winner 2019 - Corps de Ballet member Stuttgart Ballet
00:16 Cesar Corrales, Age 17, Grand Prix Winner 2014 - First Soloist Royal Ballet
00:38 Kimin Kim, Age 19, Grand Prix Winner 2012 - Principal Dancer Mariinsky Ballet
1:02 William Bracewell, Age 18, Grand Prix Winner 2010 - First Soloist Royal Ballet
1:21 Jeffrey Cirio, Age 17, Grand Prix Winner 2009 - Lead Principal Dancer English National Ballet
1:33 Sergei Polunin, Age 16, Grand Prix Winner 2006 - International Guest Artist
1:55 Matthew Golding, Age 17, Grand Prix Winner 2002 - International Guest Artist

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.

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, 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.

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.

Past guest artists 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.
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