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Ballet Superstar Lucia Lacarra signing autographs at YAGP
Ballet Q&A on Google Hangout
And…lift!
Number crunch: a male ballet dancer will lift over 1.5 tons worth of ballerinas during the course of his performance career. Ponder that.
Photo: Taras Domitro and Maria Kochetkova in YAGP’s Ballet’s Greatest Hits.
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No Stretching in Hallways
The YAGP 15th Anniversary “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of a Tomorrow” Gala program
Drew Nelson new Corps de Ballet member of the Royal Danish Ballet
David Navarro Yudes wins at Prix de Lausanne 2014
YAGP JAPAN Pre-Competitive Scholarship Audition
Woody Allen injects humor into the ballet
The ballet isn’t generally known as a place for great humor, but Woody Allen was a cutup at the Youth America Grand Prix Gala, spies said. The “Annie Hall” director and wife Soon-Yi Previn were spotted there as guests at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center last week, along with David and Julia Koch, Wilbur and Hilary Ross, Debra Black and Karen LeFrak, who composed the score for a premiere of Marcelo Gomes’ dance piece “Tous Les Jours.” When the well-heeled group filed in for dinner after the performance, Allen was seen desperately scanning the place cards at his table. “I like it when Soon-Yi’s at the same table,” he explained to a guest, relieved to find she was seated nearby. When a party photographer asked to snap a pic, Allen quipped that he’s always happy to pose because, “It keeps me from eating.” And when a guest exclaimed Allen hadn’t changed since they’d met 35 years before, the director put his hand on his heart, tapped his chest and concluded, “No maturity.” [Source]