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angelenroute wrote:Cool review of the gala that followed this year's finals. Giuseppe performed, and if you look at the photo of the stage filled with dancers, I think I spot him, but click the pic and look for yourself. My guess in small type below.

http://marinaharss.wordpress.com/tag/yo ... rand-prix/

Methinks: top row; third from left.












I think that may be him front and center crouched down.
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Does anyone happen to know the reason why for female contestants, different colours of leotards can be worn acceptably. Whereas for guys the dress code is more uniform and strict, i.e. only black tights, white shirts and white socks/shoes? Though one guy I noticed in a vblog reversed and wore a black top with white tights (maybe the way it's done in the southern hemisphere?! Down Under?!)
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I think most ballet schools require their male students at all levels to wear the black and white combination, so this is just an extension of that. Many schools specify different leotard colors for girls depending on their age/level, so maybe that is why you see the girls wearing colors. That's just a guess.
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The 2014 YAGP finals will be held in NYC starting today through next week (April 3 -10).

http://www.yagp.org/eng/yagp%202014.php

The BETM community is represented this year by these two outstanding former Billys:
#335 Lex Ishimoto
#357 Cesar Corrales

Each will compete in both Senior Men Soloist Contemporary (pg 42-44) and Senior Men Classical. (pg 62-63)

Lex will also dance in one of the Ensembles Competitions (page 9).

http://www.yagp.org/eng/2014/YAGP%20201 ... hedule.pdf

Break a leg to all! :D
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Here is Cesar's contemporary YAGP competition piece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtAYi0l ... 42NIQ#t=62
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Lex (number 335) has advanced to tonight's final round per YAGP's Facebook post. Break a leg tonight Lex!

https://www.facebook.com/YouthAmericaGr ... eam_ref=10
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I attended the final round tonight. It was sold out and very rowdy. A lot of young people sit in the upper "rings" and are not shy about voicing their approval! Lex danced very well and received good applause and a lot of cheers. Cesar, however, received BY FAR the most thunderous applause of the entire evening. He performed a series of 720/turn/720/turn...I lost track of how many in a row it was. Quite an electrifying and crowd pleasing performance. Hopefully they will release the results soon. I'm interested to see how the judges saw things. On a non Billy note, Shale Wagman, the boy that was dubbed "Canada's Billy Elliot" a couple years ago when he was on Canada's Got Talent was phenomenal. It's shocking how good he is at 13 years old.
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Lucky you!
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Thanks for the YAGP update, MichaelJ. Nice to hear our former Billys performed well. Looking forward to the official results.
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