#Maya Schonbrun

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master ballet academy has been getting a LOT of traction online since a photographer began posting videos of their students on instagram - i'm curious to know if you've seen their videos and what you think of their dancers? one of their graduates (maya schonbrun) has just debuted o/o in her very first season at royal swedish ballet??!! kinda crazy stuff. the girls especially look to be very talented

I don't follow them but see clips recommended to me on insta and such. They have talented students and the school collectively churns out some incredible technicians, especially girls but often makes *questionable* coaching and stagings decisions. There's a good chunk of showboating, often at the expense of classical choreography, musicality, and finesse. Not a critique of the students, but more of the choices made by their teachers.

I have seen the video of Maya Schonbrun's debut. Obviously, an incredible talent, and that artistic management trusts her with such a debut in her first year as a professional speaks volumes. In the brief clips I saw, she looked much more mature and refined than the competition clips I remember seeing from her in her final year at Masters.

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YAGP Finals Results 2022

Pre-Competitive

Hope Award

Asuka Hara

Classical Dance Category-Women

Top 24

Ellary Day Szydlar

Alicia Miyu Wills

Anne Takahashi

Tiffany Emmanuela Tanugraha

Silvie Kharatian

Nina Miro

Yelyzaveta Bidenko

Hikari Otomo

Kurumi Saito

Kae Osada

Chloe Wang

Ekaterina Pichkova

Top 12

Eve Vlahodimos

Mikhaela Felicia Maleke

Asuka Hara

Morgan Ligon

Chaeyool Kim

Annie Webb

Laura Paquim

Kiera Sun

Top 3

Yuna Yamada

Mikaela Cameron

Maria Qixin Tian and Shaqueena Yefta Hutasoit

Classical Dance Category-Men

Top 6

Alessandro Loiola

Dylan Custodio

Charley Toscano

Top 3

Ruan Santiago

Leon Yusei Sai

Michael Savio

Contemporary Dance Category-Women

Top 12

Emilia Dubiel

Asuka Hara

Savannah Manzel

Mikaela Cameron

Kya Massimino

Sachi Oza

Kae Osada

Vivien Palmer

Carrigan Paylor

Top 3

Kiera Sun

Morgan Ligon

Phoebe Ingram

Contemporary Dance Category-Men

Top 6

Owen Simmons

Nikolas Adarmes

David Mihail Anagnoste

Top 3

Michael Savio

Ruan Santiago

Dylan Custodio

Junior

Youth Grand Prix

Alexei Orohovsky

Women

Top 12

Ana Lorenza Blanco Peniche

Minori De Silva

Nozomi Akamine

Ruka Suginohara

Luisa Lisboa

Izzy Howard

Charlize Hardwick

Anna Chaziroglou

Top 3

Nao Nakajima

Yerin Ok

Sophia Koo and Crystal Huang

Men

Top 12

Eric Poor

Manoel Domingos

Cesar Ortega Garcia

Keisuke Miyazaki

Gramada Dragos

Minjun Suh

William Gyves

Alexei Orohovsky

Top 3

Denis Watanabe

João Pedro Dos Santos Silva

Clovis Couillard and Suhyeok Bang

Senior

Grand Prix

Not awarded

Women

Top 12

Monami Aoki

Yana Peneva

Mia Patton

Akvile Šulcaite

Nicole Liu

Sydney Upchurch

Saela Rivera-Martinez

Kako Sawai

Camila Lino

Top 3

Maya Schonbrun

Natalie Steele

Lexi Mccloud

Men

Top 12

Micah Levine

Killian Rudd

Carson Willey

Cristian Ponder

Justin Padilla

Andrew Shields

Dominic Abiel Godoy Martinez

Alexander Alvarez Silvestre

Hibiki Tsukamoto

Top 3

Arthur Wille

Zander Magolnick

Hoyeon Kim

Pas De Deux

Classical

Top 12

Leon Yusei Sai and Afina Gosla (Southland Ballet Academy, CA)

Sophia Yamazaki and Anthony Caio (Lapidari Nucleo de Artes, Brasil)

Eric Poor (12), Berkleigh Hernandez (CityDance School and Conservatory, MD)

Nicole Kosasih Widjaja and Jim Willis Ang (Marlupi Dance Academy, Indonesia)

Kennedy Kahler and Zander Magolnick (Elite Classical Coaching, TX)

Bella Ownby and Paxton Speight (International Ballet Academy, NC)

Nora Yun Schaefer and Alexander Nicolosi (Kirov Academy of Ballet, Washington)

Sophia Jones and Lisandro Neris Concepcion (Feijoo Ballet School, TX)

Haruna Watanabe and Hibiki Tsukamoto (Ellison Ballet - Professional Training Program, NY)

Top 3

Maya Schonbrun and Cruz Vining (Master Ballet Academy,  AZ)

Kyra Orozco-Davey and Samuel Morris (Grand Pas Classique City Ballet San Francisco, CA)

Nina Miró Verger and Asier Bautista (Jove Ballet de Catalunya, Spain)

Contemporary

Top 6

Milania Leone and Bryce Young (All American Classical Ballet School, FL)

Aubri Parker and Harris Yesenik (Cary Ballet Conservatory, NC)

Kailin Kratz and Kyawzwa Lwin (City Ballet - San Francisco, CA)

Sabina Rode and Engel Perez (ProVer, Mexico)

Top 3

Nali Dobrin and Gramada Dragos (Choreography High School ''Floria Capsali'' / Dance Planet, Romania)

Kailin Kratz and Kyawzwa Lwin (City Ballet - San Francisco, CA)

Michael Savio and Kya Massimino (Stars Dance Studio, FL)

Ensembles

Small Ensembles

Top 12

Gayane (Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington)

Angelasta (Balé do Teatro Escola Basileu França, Brasil)

Reframe (Elite Classical Coaching, TX)

Bluebells (Bayer Ballet Academy, CA)

Oceans and Pearls (West Suburban Ballet Conservatory, IL)

Rhapsody (Campaneria Ballet School, NC)

Pas De Quatre Part 1 (Pavlova Professional Coaching, TX)

Hens and Rooster  A&A Ballet, IL)

Gemini (Master Ballet Academy, AZ)

Top 3

Eureka! (Mid-Atlantic Center for the Performing Arts, MD)

Melliflous (Ballet de Galicia, Diego Landín, Spain)

Raymonda Cavaliers (UNCSA, NC)

Large Ensembles

Top 24

Moving Forward (Indiana Ballet Conservatory, IN)

Waves (Elite Classical Coaching, TX)

Untethered Soul (WestMet Classical Training, MN)

Hibiscus of the Night (MorningStar Dance Academy, GA)

Études (École de Ballet Tio, Japan)

Suits (Li's Ballet Studio, CA)

Bournonville Divertissement (Amirian Ballet AcademyMain, CA)

Carmen Suite (Colorado Ballet Academy, CO)

6;42 Again (On Your Toes Academy of Dance, IL)

Right Left Shuffle (Hinsdale Dance Academy, IL)

Chains Take (Joffrey Ballet School, NY)

Last Warning (Golden State Ballet Academy, CA)

Top 12

España (Next Generation Ballet at the Straz Center, FL)

Youth Freeway (Studio Croix, Japan)

Appearance of Light (Jacqueline's School of Ballet, UT)

Mechanisms (Cary Ballet Conservatory, NC)

Generation 143:08 (Conservatoire de Danse du Nouvel Opéra de Cracovie, Poland)

Nessun Dorma (ProVer, Mexico)

What Never Sleeps (Odasz Dance Theatre, NY)

Vita (Ellison Ballet - Professional Training Program, NY)

Top 3

Coppelia Friends Act 1 (The Art of Classical Ballet, FL)

Tang Dynasty (OAEC, TX)

Virus (Ballet de Galicia, Diego Landín, Spain)

Special Awards

Outstanding Choreography

Maria Konrad

Natalia Makarova Award

Charlize Hardwick

Shelley King Award for Outstanding Artistry

Minori De Silva

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Was almost brought to tears by Maya Schonbrun’s final round performance tonight. Don’t think I’ve ever felt that while watching ballet 😂.

She was SO insanely good, I’m honestly still kind of speechless

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im so pro-maya schonbrun you guys dont even know but i wish she stretched through the leg more when she did extensions

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Art for a good cause: Vietnamese students abroad come home for summer charity musical performance

Art for a good cause: Vietnamese students abroad come home for summer charity musical performance

Phan Hải An performs a pas de deux with Maya Schonbrun, who earlier this year won the Grand Prix de Lausanne. — Photo courtesy of Staci Schonbrun HÀ NỘI — A charity concert put together by three siblings, bringing together Vietnamese folk music, classical and ballet will take place on August 19 at the Petit Concert Hall at the Việt Nam Academy of Music. “Thêm yêu thương” or “Sharing the Love”…

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A Huge Congratulations to the Prix De Lausanne 2022 Prize Winners and all the candidates!!

The results:

OAK FOUNDATION 404 – Darrion SELLMAN – United States

FONDATION CARIS – JEUNE ESPOIR 307 – Tsukino TANAKA – Japan

BOURSE JEUNE ESPOIR 112 – Luciana SAGIORO – Brazil

FONDATION ALBERT AMON 202 – Mingyang XIE – China

FONDATION COROMANDEL 406 – Dorian PLASSE – France

LOGITECH 306 – Maya SCHONBRUN – United States

BOURSE JEUNE ÉTOILE 316 – Amy RONNFELDT – Australia

Other Awards:

NUREYEV FOUNDATION Best Young Talent Award: 210 – Miguel OLIVEIRA – Brazil

MINERVA KUNSTSTIFTUNG Contemporary Dance Award: 406 – Dorian PLASSE – France

FONDATION EN FAVEUR DE L’ART CHORÉGRAPHIQUE

Best Swiss Candidate Award: 307 – Tsukino TANAKA – Japan

Web Audience Favourite Award: 112 – Luciana SAGIORO – Brazil

Audience Favorite Award: 106 – Yasemin KAYABAY – Turkey

Finalists Award: the Finalists who have not been awarded with any scholarship will each receive CHF 1,000.-, offered by Bobst SA.

Picture from PDL Twitter Account

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Hi there! It's been so fun reading your insights on the ballet world, and I really appreciate that you convey criticism constructively. I was wondering if you keep up with Prix de Lausanne? I saw one of the winners, Maya Schonbrun, did Italian fouettés and reversing them in the Queen of Dryads variation and it looked so interesting!

Yes, she was wonderful ! I made a whole post with a liveblog of my thoughts!! You can search for it on my blog!!