THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER: LAGUNA HILLS – Mable Yiu is in the passenger seat of her mother’s Lexus sedan. She pulls a dark blue latex band tightly around her foot, pointing and flexing her toes against it. read more

BEACON CAST: The Russian American Foundation (RAF) has announced that 10 American high school ballet dancers have been selected for the prestigious National Security Language Initiative for Youth Program (NSLI-Y) this summer. read more

SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: SAN FRANCISCO — While many of her friends prepare for the combined anxiety and excitement in anticipation of their first year at college, Alexandra Martin will travel to Russia to study ballet, culture and language. read more

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: Sarah Wiese, a student of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Independent Study High School, is among 10 American high school ballet dancers selected for the prestigious National Security Language Initiative for Youth Program. read more

INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE:  Westerners tiptoe into the Bolshoi. The curtain rose on the Bolshoi Ballet’s revival of “Esmeralda,” and soon boys and girls dressed in Renaissance costumes took to the stage, pairing off in a spirited dance that they had learned in the Bolshoi’s own hothouse of an academy. read more

THE NEW YORK TIMES: MOSCOW — The curtain rose on the Bolshoi Ballet’s revival of “Esmeralda,” and soon boys and girls dressed in Renaissance costumes took to the stage, pairing off in a spirited dance that they had learned in the Bolshoi’s own hothouse of an academy. read more

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Russian American Foundation in New York has announced that it will send 10 high school dancers from the United States to Russia this summer to train with the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow from July 17 to August 28, 2010. read more

LIVINGSTON ENTERPRISE: Once upon a time there was a little boy who had two half-sisters who were ballerinas. As he grew up watching them dance, he realized he wanted to be a dancer, too. Now, at age 12, Julian MacKay has become the first young American student to perform with the Bolshoi Ballet Company of Russia in Moscow in its 263-year history, according to his proud parents, Greg and Teresa MacKay. … read more

Bozeman Daily Chronicle – How many people know exactly what they want to with their lives at the age of 11? And how many people are willing to move halfway around the world, away from their families, to spend most of every day practicing something that requires intense concentration and discipline at an age when most kids are riding bikes …read more

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Dance magazine - The Bolshoi Ballet Academy returns to NYC and Middlebury, CT, for its third annual summer intensive, June 29 – Aug 7. New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts hosts two advanced levels and a male class while the Westover School in Middlebury accomodats elementary and intermediate levels. Open to students ages 9-22, the intensive steeps dancers in the Bolshoi Technique…read more

Ballet Magazine - The Kennedy Center Opera House was entirely sold-out for opening night of the Bolshoi Ballet’s sparklingly new production of Le Corsaire – a ballet so grand in scale that at times it seemed the spacious stage of the Opera House wasn’t big enough to hold the enormous cast of this magnificent dance extravaganza. …read more

The Washington Post: Surely girls have never been chased so joyfully, nor have they disarmed their men so utterly, nor have pirates been so piratey than in the Bolshoi Ballet’s “Le Corsaire.”…read more

The Wall Street Journal - How the mighty have mellowed. Since first touring the U.S. in 1959, the Bolshoi Ballet has been known here for the heroic, sometimes heavy and often thrilling tone of its presentations. But during its recent sold-out weekend of performances at the Kennedy Center, the 233-year-old Moscow troupe showed a different dimension. Its three-act, three-hour production of “Le Corsaire,” first mounted in 2007 by the Bolshoi’s then artistic director Alexei Ratmansky and its current artistic director Yuri Burlaka, was light-filled and old-world pretty….read more

News Channel 5 WPTV - Kristina Bentz recently returned from a two-week trip to Russia. She was chosen for the rare opportunity to briefly study and perform at the renowned Bolshoi Ballet Academy. She performed an award winning pas-de-deux to earn the spot to the Bolshoi. Four U.S. dancers were chosen. Kristina and two male dancers made the trip…read more

L.A. Times – After a story about 14-year-old Matthew Leonardi ran in The Times, he began receiving letters and donations from all around the country. He left Saturday for the Bolshoi school in Russia…read more

L.A. Times - It’s a long way from San Bernardino to Moscow, but Matthew Leonardi, 14, is making the leap. In his tough San Bernardino neighborhood, Matthew Leonardi doesn’t talk much of his graceful pirouettes or evenings spent dancing with girls in pink tutus…read more

N.Y. Times - Passers-by outside the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center on a blustery morning in late March may have noticed a stream of women ushering girls into this unfinished building on West 60th Street. Keen observers might have noticed that the women came in two distinct sartorial categories: one marked by black leather, heels, fur, dyed blond hair and makeup, the other by carelessly thrown-on tops, loose jeans, flats and very little makeup…read more

NY Daily News – New York City kids are saying ‘Da’ to ballet classes. A summer master class, taught through the Moscow based Bolshoi Ballet Academy, hopes to turn New Yorkers into dancing diplomats during a five-week course. Alden James, president of the National Arts Club in Gramercy Park, sees this program as a United Nations type endeavor…

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