Youth America Grand Prix

Youth America Grand Prix is the world's largest international student dance competition, which awards more than $300,000 in scholarships each year, to dance schools within the United States and around the world. It is held internationally each year, with final competitions taking place in New York City. It includes ballet and contemporary dance styles of performance. It is open to dance students 9–19 years old.

Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) is the world’s largest and one of the most prestigious international ballet competitions. It is also a New York-based 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization.

The mission of YAGP is to provide educational and professional opportunities to young dancers, acting as a stepping stone to a professional dance career by offering scholarships or job opportunities to young dancers ages 9 to 19.

Each year, over 8,000 participants audition to receive elite scholarships. The regional competitions are conducted in 18 cities in the US and in 6 international locations. Selected students from these competitions are invited to New York City to participate at the YAGP Finals in New York City.

YAGP offers dance students the unique opportunity to be seen, taught and professionally guided by the directors and faculty of the world’s foremost companies and schools, including: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Australian Ballet School, Canada’s National Ballet School and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, The Harid Conservatory, John Cranko School of Stuttgart Ballet (Germany), La Scala Ballet Academy (Italy), Paris Opera Ballet, and The Royal Ballet School (England), and the Rock School for Dance Education among many others.

YAGP Alumni go on to professional careers in dance, joining world-renowned dance companies including

YAGP was founded in 1999 by two former dancers of the Bolshoi Ballet, Larissa and Gennadi Saveliev (who was a soloist at American Ballet Theatre and now teaches at the Studio Company for the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School). The competition quickly became the largest in the United States, and is internationally recognized.

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