Academy's 10th Anniversary Season

Come Dance With Us! 

Ten years seem to have flown by. The Faculty would like to congratulate everyone who has been growing with us patiently and resiliently and blossomed into wonderful dancers.

 

As you know, IBT Academy offers many unique opportunities: 

 

• Our Summer Intensive Program is considered one of the best in the US, with exceptional Russian Vaganova-style Teachers, Guest Teachers, and two world-renown award-winning Choreographers;
• In 2016 we have started our Masterclass Series inviting Boston Ballet's former principal dancer and their current Ballet Master Larissa Ponomarenko and former ABT soloist Anna Liceica. MasterClass Series will continue this year with more world-class teachers. We have a MasterClass planned for May 2017 and will be announce a big ballet name shortly!

 

The Faculty is proud that our students' accomplishments have been recognized at home and internationally:

Competition Prizes

2007

YAGP

Elyse Jennings — Senior Division
1st Place in Classical and 2nd Place in Contemporary

2008

Arabesque Perm Russia

Elyse Jennings — Pre-Professional Division
Yukari Saito & Nikolai Fyodorov: a $1000 cash prize for being The Most Talented Young Competitor. Elyse was also unanimously voted The Most Photogenic Competition Participants.

 

 

Shanghai International Ballet Completion

Elyse Jennings — Junior
Competition Diploma

YAGP

Dasha Gidaspova — Junior Category
3rd Place in Classical

2009

YAGP

Cecilia Hoffmann — Pre-Competitive
2nd Place in Classical

2011

YAGP

Katie Zimmermann — Senior Category 
1st Place in Contemporary

Group piece — 3rd Place

Top 12 Classical:
Katie Zimmerman — Senior Category


Cecilia Hoffman — Junior Category


Conrad Sager — Pre-Competitive

2012

YAGP

Katie Zimmerman — Senior Category
3rd Place in Classical

Katherine Gabay and Katie Zimmerman
Top 12 in Contemporary

Youth Dance Festival of NJ

Katherine Gabay — Junior
1st Place Classical

Jessica Restivo — Pre-Competitive
2nd Place Classical 

2013

YAGP

Katherine Gabay — Senior
3rd Place Contemporary

 

 

Group piece — Top 12

2014

YAGP

Top 12 Contemporary:
Alison Tatsuoka — Junior Category
Rory Myers — Pre-Competitive
Emily Stephens — Pre-Competitive

Group piece — Top 12

2015

World Ballet Competition

Jessica Restivo — Preparatory
2nd Place

Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition

Jessica Restivo — Students Division
1st place

Rory Mayers — Youth Division
3rd place

VKIBC NYC Finals

Jessica Restivo
3rd Place

Tanzolymp Berlin

Jessica Restivo — Age Group 13-15
3rd place

YAGP

Jessica Restivo — Junior
1st Place Classical

Group piece — 2nd place

Top 12 Classical:
Madeline Glinski — Pre-Competitive

Top 12 Contemporary:
Alison Tatsuoka — Senior
Jessica Restivo — Junior

In addition, our Artistic Director Alexander "Sasha" Boitsov was honored with a highly sought-after YAGP student ballet competition Outstanding Teacher Award

2016

YAGP 

Group Piece — 1st place

 

Sandy Zeng — Senior
2nd Place Contemporary

Jessica Restivo — Junior
2nd Place Contemporary

 

Top 12 Classical:
Alison Tatsuoka — Senior
Jessica Restivo — Junior
Emily Stephens — Junior
Abbey Wu — Pre-Competitive

 

Top 12 Contemporary: 
Hannah Bauer — Senior
Michelle Yu — Pre-Competitive

2017

YAPG

Hannah Baugher — Senior
2nd Place in Contemporary

 

 

Top 24 Classical:
Madeline Glinski — Junior
Emily Stephens — Junior
Hannah Baugher — Senior

 

Sandy Zeng — Senior
Top 12 Contemporary