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
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.
YAGP 2016 (Indiana)
Top 12 in Seniors Classical Category :
- Jessica Raymond
- Mackenzie Bartlett
Top 12 in Seniors Contemporary Category :
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 :
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
