Youth America Grand Prix Female Gold Medalists Through the Years

Enjoy these YAGP NYC Finals female Gold Medalists through the years.
00: 00 Elisabeth Beyer - 2018 Gold Medalist - ABT Studio Company
00:39 Gloria Benaglia - 2017 Gold Medalist - National Ballet Theatre of Brno
1:19 Yu Hang - 2016 Gold Medalist - The Royal Ballet
1:37 Yu Kurihara - 2015 Gold Medalist - Birmingham Royal Ballet
2:09 Aviva Gelfer-Mundl - 2014 Gold Medalist - Boston Ballet II
2:32 Lou Spichtig - 2013 Gold Medalist - Queensland Ballet
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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[@simplystreeptacular]

People: "so how many Italian fouettes can you do?" Elisabeth Beyer: "YES"

[@YAGP]

Elisabeth is extremely talented! We are glad you enjoy seeing her perform, we do as well. Tune in to the YAGP 2021 Finals livestream starting tomorrow May 10th!

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[@vv5951]

Elisabeth Beyer is such a good dancer !! She has a stunning presence on stage ❤️❤️

[@timothyleighton5486]

That is a whole lot of skill and talent packed into a 3 minute video !! 👍❤️

[@TVY2013]

Remarkable technical skills and polish, and sense of artistry for just young dancers.

[@francessmith40]

Awesome that we have a platform like youtube to gain access easily to all of this useful footage!!

[@deborahlipsi730]

They are all so talented!

[@applexcidergirl1764]

elisabeth beyer 💗💕🌸💕💕🌸

[@evangelinapancoteelias3591]

Todas maravilhosas👏

[@bethgiardino8790]

This is SUPERB 🌷💕🌷💕

[@allycreech2364]

i love that 2014 and 15 girls had the same costume

[@YAGP]

there's always some healthy competition at YAGP 😉 Check out the full video of the YAGP alumna Yu Kurihara performing the variation from Diana and Actaeon kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZXYnKyYjLN8faM

[@swampwitchchic]

So amazing!

[@evangelinapancoteelias3591]

Lou 👏👏👏

[@GoldForAnna]

It seems to be so easy... But it’s NOT !!

[@YAGP]

We agree!! Don't miss our daily live streaming of classes! We begin our competition tomorrow!

[@ltsf]

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[@fivecardstud9848]

Ist das ein Ballet-Wettbewerb? Gott seid ihr peinlich.... . Wie kann man nur so dämlich sein?????????