YAGP 2021 San Francisco Semi-Final 1st Place Winner Charlize Hardwick - Sleeping Beauty vs. Paquita

Charlize Hardwick, Age 13, from Bayer Ballet Academy (coached by Inna Bayer), performs Variation from Sleeping Beauty and Variation from Paquita at the YAGP 2021 San Francisco Semi-Final, where she won First Place in the Junior Classical Category. Comment which variation you prefer! To see more of Charlize, watch her pointe shoe fitting with ‪@ThePointeShop‬ here:    • Pointe Shoe Fitting 13 YEAR OLD (YAGP 1st ...  . 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. Past guest artists of the annual YAGP Gala at Lincoln Center, Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow, 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. YAGP was the subject of the 2011 award-winning First Position documentary, which followed six participants on their journey to compete at YAGP’s annual NYC Finals. _________________ For more info please visit: https://yagp.org/ SUBSCRIBE:    / yagpballetarchive   DONATE: https://yagp.org/donate/ INSTAGRAM:   / yagp   FACEBOOK:   / youthamericagrandprix   TWITTER:   / yagp   TIKTOK:   / yagpofficial   YAGP JAPAN INSTAGRAM:   / yagpjapan   YAGP JAPAN FACEBOOK:   / youth-america-grand-prix-japan-10794721095...   YAGP KOREA INSTAGRAM:   / hee_seo_foundation   YAGP INDONESIA INSTAGRAM:   / yagpindonesia   YAGP BRAZIL INSTAGRAM:   / yagp_brasil   YAGP ITALY INSTAGRAM:   / yagp_italia   YAGP PHILIPPINES INSTAGRAM:   / yagpphilippines   YAGP MEXICO INSTAGRAM:   / festivaldedanza_yagpmexico   YAGP GERMANY INSTAGRAM:   / ygpgermany   YAGP CHINA WEIBO: https://weibo.com/7512578059/profile?... *YAGP owns no rights to the music. Live Performance, fair use. ASCAP license paid. For educational and entertainment purposes only. No copyright infringement intended.*