BAM will host ‘Olympic Trials of Ballet,’ world’s largest scholarship auditions
First Time in Brooklyn for YAGP: Youth America Grand Prix Gala
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) will host in April the annual finals week of the world’s largest student ballet scholarship auditions. For the first time in Brooklyn, the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) will bring together the students and the ballet companies that will make them future stars, a full week of dance-off competitions that culminate in final round performances and a gala on April 28.
The final round of the international ballet scholarship auditions will take place on April 27 at 7 p.m., and the YAGP 2016 Gala, “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow,” will be held on April 28 at 7 p.m.
Featured performances include: Gillian Murphy and Stella Abrera (American Ballet Theatre), Ekaterina Krysanova and Artem Ovcharenko (Bolshoi Ballet), Michaela DePrince and Edo Wijnen (Dutch National Ballet), Kristina Shapran and Xander Parish (Mariinsky Ballet), Hannah O’Neill and Hugo Marchand (Paris Opera Ballet), and Daniel Camargo (Stuttgart Ballet).