Manhattan Movement & Arts Center presents Manhattan Youth Ballet’s 2011 Spring Workshop from April 2-3, 2011. Performances: Saturday 2pm and 7pm and Sunday at 1pm and 5pm. The workshop will take place at the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center at 248 W. 60th Street, NYC (between Amsterdam and West End Avenues) in the Lincoln Center area. Tickets are $30 ($20 for students) and are available at www.manhattanyouthballet.org.The program will include George Balanchine’s timeless work “LaSource” as well as pieces by MYB Faculty members Marina Stavitskaya (ballet mistress and actress for “Black Swan”), MYB Artistic Director Francois Perron, Deborah Wingert, and Nadege Hottier.The spring workshop is held annually by MYB students who participate in a spring intensive, for which auditions are held during the Christmas holidays. This year, Manhattan Youth Ballet company members will be also performing in the finals of the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP), the world’s largest student ballet scholarship competition that awards over $250,000 annually in scholarships to leading dance schools worldwide.
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