Congratulations To Our Entire Organization On An Incredible YAGP Weekend!
We are THRILLED to announce that we have been honored with the prestigious “Outstanding School” Award for the 5th consecutive year among 50 competing schools at the Youth America Grand Prix Regionals in Dallas!! Dallas is the largest of the 26 international regionals of the famed ballet competition.
We extend a heartfelt THANK YOU to our faculty, choreographers, coaches, students, parents, and staff for your daily dedication to excellence in the Art of Dance!!
Your positive energy and hard work over months of preparation have helped our students to grow immeasurably as artists and human beings!
TDC’s 2020 DALLAS REGIONAL WINNERS:
YAGP OUTSTANDING SCHOOL 2020
The Dallas Conservatory
PRE-COMPETITIVE DIVISION
Top 12 Contemporary:
Gigi Johnson
Julianna McKelvey
3rd Place Contemporary:
Leah Carter
1st Place Contemporary:
Harper Sherrard
Top 12 Classical:
Annie Laws
Julianne Bjerke
Leah Carter
3rd Place Classical:
Julianna McKelvey
JUNIOR DIVISION
Top 12 Contemporary:
Chloe Kim
2nd Place Contemporary:
Allison Whitley
1st Place Contemporary:
Avery Watson
Top 24 Classical:
Alyssa Circe
Eliza Soto
Top 12 Classical:
Avery Watson
Chloe Kim
1st Place Classical:
Allison Whitley
SENIOR DIVISION
Top 24 Classical:
Caroline Love
Top 12 Classical:
Caroline Powell
ENSEMBLES
Top 6 Ensemble:
A Little Chopin Mazurka
2nd Place Ensemble:
Rite of Spring
PAS DE DEUX
2nd Place: Giselle Pas de Deux
Caroline Love (with Daniel Kubr)
2019 YAGP Results
TDC is grateful to be recognized with the competition’s top award, “Outstanding School” for the 4th year in a row, and to have experienced so many breakthrough performances from our soloist and ensemble dancers! We are GRATEFUL for the immense inspiration we felt and are proud of our 28 uniquely gifted dancers.
Here were our 2019 Dallas winners!
PRE-COMPETITIVE CONTEMPORARY
1st Place: Avery Watson
Top 12: Chloe Kim, Gaetana Johnson, Hunter Huckin
PRE-COMPETITIVE CLASSICAL
2nd Place: Avery Watson
Top 12: Chloe Kim
JUNIOR CONTEMPORARY
2nd Place: Lauren Devaul
Top 12: Natalia Scuilla
SENIOR CONTEMPORARY
1st Place: Kali Kleiman
Top 12: Ariel Marks, Caroline Powell
SENIOR CLASSICAL
1st Place: Kali Kleiman
Top 12: Caroline Powell
Top 24: Caroline Love
SENIOR MEN’S CONTEMPORARY
2nd Place: Griffin Massey
ENSEMBLES
1st Place
SPECIAL AWARDS
Outstanding School
Outstanding Choreographer: Josie Walsh, Guest BalletRED Choreographer of “Bolero”
A profound THANK YOU to the TDC faculty staff, dancers, parents and families, and to our superb coaches and choreographers:
Jacqueline Porter (Director)
Ausia Jones
Clair Culin
Josie Walsh
Dwight Rhoden
Hayden Helms
Kate Kuether
Megan Storey
Olga Pavlova
Sean Smith
Vincent Hardy
Deepest thanks to YAGP for their tireless work through so many years to ensure the health and growth of our art form! We appreciate you all and of course are grateful for the vision and energy of YAGP Founders Larissa and Gennadi Saveliev!
YAGP Outstanding School 2018, 2017, 2016
The Dallas Conservatory was named Outstanding School for the third time by the Youth America Grand Prix International Student Ballet Competition (YAGP) at the 2018 Dallas Regionals, held February 1-4 at the Irving Arts Center. Often referred to as “The Olympics of Ballet”, this year’s competition was the largest in YAGP history, with over 1,000 entries representing 61 schools from the Southwest, California and Mexico.
See a full listing of our 2018, 2017 and 2016 wins below! Check back as we build our library of awards to include all years since 2011 … including 5 Hope Awards, 2 Junior Grand Prix, the Grand Prix, 2 Outstanding Teacher awards and 3 Outstanding Choreographer awards
2017
2016
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