Youth America Grand Prix Winners 2024: Spotlight on the Amazing Dancers

As ur most-trusted-very-favorite-ballet-nerds-on-the-internet we are HERE with the highly requested RECAP on the WINNERS of the 2024 YAGP FINALS. There was some amazing talent on the scene this year and we know all the dancers worked so hard. Today we’re celebrating them and appreciating the young dancers that are being raised in all parts of the world.

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Welcomeee
0:51 YAGP cOnTeXt
2:25 Junior Women: 3rd Place
4:05 Junior Women: 2nd Place
5:54 Junior Women: 1st Place
9:48 Junior Men: 3rd Place
11:35 Junior Men: 2nd Place
12:35 Junior Men: 1st Place
15:44 Senior Women: 3rd Place
17:36 Senior Women: 2nd Place
19:09 Senior Women: 1st Place
22:48 ~Intermission~
23:22 Senior Men: 3rd Place 1
25:45 Senior Men: 3rd Place 2
27:11 Senior Men: 2nd Place
29:00 Senior Men: 1st Place
32:37 Pas de Deux: 3rd Place
33:48 Pas de Deux: 2nd Place 1
35:27 Pas de Deux: 2nd Place 2
38:04 Pas de Deux: 1st Place - Pas de Deux
43:56 Pas de Deux: 1st Place - Coda
47:01 Grand Prix Award
50:30 That's a wrap folks :)
51:43 Bye~

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[balletreign]

VIDEO EDIT: the 1st place winner of the senior male division, Martinho Lima Santos, is in fact from Portugal 🇵🇹.

Thanks to those who’ve brought that to our attention. Congrats to Martinho from the ballet nerds 🎉

[voxfugit]

Ivana’s Esmerelda so impressed me. I’m not a dancer, I am a singer. And it has always bothered me that these women could not land the tambourine on the beat that girl had it down. She knew where her leg had to be at the moment of the beat perfect.

[carsonwilley]

Thank you so much for sharing my variation ❤ I’m Carson Willey the 3rd place winner in the Senior men’s category

[cbass]

It’s so great to see sass put behind Esmeralda! I have been watching and many variations are passive. I love sass!! The same with Raymonda. The claps of hands are passive, if any. I love sass, I love to hear the clap..

[bellaful]

Son and Lee had one of the most beautiful performances I’ve ever seen!

[G]

I want to say a massive shoutout crystal and ivanna for winning the senior division as first years. They are both only 15 and won against 19 year olds.

[philzmusic]

The Grand Prix award winner: That landing on one knee with perfect timing from a tour is stunning. I don't think I've ever seen it done so well.

[vivienne]

Minji Son is going to be a massive star someday. I'm calling it.

[karenjones]

Minji Son & Seungmin Lee came to dance and they did just that!!! THEY WERE AWESOME IN "SATANELLA PDD!!!" 🔥🔥🔥👏👏👏👏 -> 💐💐💐💐🥰

[anneb]

the pas de deux first place duo had sooo much chemistryyy i was like are they dating?? bc they're so cute together!! incredible synchronization and it felt like we were being told a love story

[whatdoyousuppose]

Ivana is now the blueprint for the La Esmeralda variation - as a musician I was incredibly impressed by her attack and rhythmic integrity. And the expression and artistry as a whole, incredible! That is how you do it!

[forewarningforpebbles]

Finally, Esmeralda variation being DANCED and not posed
Okay and the Satanella PDD? In.Sane.

[SaberNezumi]

I found myself smiling a lot while watching Ivana Radan's variation, it was magical.

[mermaidopulence]

Ivana's variation of La Esmeralda is by far the best one I've seen and at only 15 just blows my mind. I agree that tambourine kicks should be on the music and almost every variation that I've seen done has always been either behind the music or ahead of the music.

[phoenixlundstrom]

GeonHee Park from YAGP 2024 and from 2022 Prix de Lausanne, someone to really keep track of! Total amazement at the skill, control, artistry!!!

[nt.]

As a new lover of ballet, I have to commend you two on breaking this competition down and explaining things in a way that is so easy to digest.

[MoonyAJ]

I haven't even finished watching the video but I just had to stop to comment on Ivana Radan's Esmeralda and Carson Willey doing the Nureyev Swan Lake variation. I've seen many mediocre Esmeraldas, a few really good ones, and then there's Ivana's. What I loved was the resistance and purpose to her movements, her ability to contrast motion with crisp moments of stillness, and the poised, almost haughty set to her head and neck. The Esmeraldas I've enjoyed so far have had great timing and almost a degree of cheekiness or naughtiness... but Ivana's had this "You think you deserve me? No, but you may worship me from a distance!" sort of grandeur that I found absolutely compelling. As for Carson... if that's where he's headed as a professional, with that ability to marry technical skill with such sincerity, with the feelings of the character he's embodying coming out through every sinuous stretch and sensitive little step, I'd be keen to see him dance for hours.

[sqab_susBREF]

I actually performed at YAGP finals this year. Can’t wait to hear your amazing commentary on the winners!

[dronesclubhighjinks]

Those 53 minutes really flew by! Thank you for providing commentary on all of these beautiful dancers!
Did you know my hometown-sharing Keenan Mentzos was a child actor? He is listed on imdb! 14 yo Keenan only started to focus exclusively on ballet at age 13!
I loved all of the performances but my favourite girl is still Paloma Vidart (ARG) who won 2 prizes at Prix de Lausanne!
Thank you very much for the video!! 🙏💜🎼🩰🌧🦌✨

[audreylovesballet]

i was there! such an amazing experience! i didn’t make it to the final round, but was so excited none the less!