This blog has often championed a good cause: young composers getting their first project off the ground… established composers getting a new project off the ground! Here is a very worthy cause,and an investment in the future of ballet! The young, and very talented, Julian MacKay — who comes from an astonishingly talented family of dancers — is a sixteen-year-old American who is completing his studies at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy. When he graduates next year, he will become the first American male dancer to d0 so.
Now, Julian has been chosen by the Academy to represent them at the Yuri Gregorovich Ballet Competition in Sochi. That’s right, they’ve chosen Julian, not Juri. It is an admirable decision on the Bolshoi’s part to choose the best and not a local boy, and Julian, of course, wants to go, but participating costs money!… [continue reading]
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