Bayer Ballet Apprentice Level student, @charlizehardwick9674 continues her private coaching with Bayer Ballet’s Founder & Artistic Director, Inna Bayer , as she prepares to enter the next chapter of her journey on full scholarship at Academie Danse Princesse Grace @academieprincessegrace (Fall 2022). “I feel grateful to work with such a dedicated student as Charlize, who is completely dedicated and devoted to her training, respectful of the artform and her teachers, and always approaching her studies with a positive mindset and willingness to accept critiques, and apply them. I love working privately with dancers to discover their individual strengths and help them overcome challenges. I especially love watching their individual artistic voices and personalities arise during the process.” (Inna Bayer) 🎥 filmed during the making of a documentary, produced by Alexis Cuarezma @alexiscuarezma ✨ Charlize is a @YAGP Champion ✨NGGeneration Star Grishko World @grishkoworld @nikolayworld ✨YAGP Grand Prix (2022) ✨Natalia Makarova Award for Artistry (2022) ABOUT BAYER BALLET Founded in 2005, Bayer Ballet Academy (Mountain View, California) is the OFFICIAL PARTNER SCHOOL to the world-renowned Vaganova Ballet Academy. Our award-winning faculty directly hail from the Vaganova Ballet Academy and Bolshoi, where they received their training, teaching credentials and advanced graduate degrees in pedagogy. Graduates of the Academy have been accepted into prestigious programs, including Vaganova Ballet Academy, Paris Opera, American Ballet Theatre, Royal Ballet, Princess Grace Academy, and Bolshoi Ballet. Students of Bayer Ballet, have danced in professional dance companies: Mariinsky Ballet, Eifman Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Croatian National Theater, State Ballet in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria and more. RECENT HONORS: YAGP Outstanding School (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022), Grand Prix (2022), Natalia Makarova Award for Artistry (2022); World Ballet Competition (WBC), Gold Medalist; Prix de Lausanne - 2 participants (2020), and YoungArts Winner (2020). We bring world-class performing arts to the community. Bayer Ballet Company, the 501(c)3 public charity organization, is dedicated to staging several annual full-length performances that are of professional quality. Our goal is to make the classical discipline of ballet accessible to new generations, preserve the traditions of Vaganova, and contribute enriching cultural experiences within our community. FOLLOW US https://www.bayerballet.com INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/bayerballetacademy/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/BayerBalletAcademy LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bayerballet 🔔 SUBSCRIBE https://www.youtube.com/bayerballetacademy #bayerballet #vaganova #yagp #academieprincessegrace #futureofdance #nggenerationstars2022 #yagpchampion #yagp2022 #dancer #nikolayworld #ballet #balletdancer #worldwideballet #yagpfinals #balletphotography #dance #dancerlife #yagpfinals2022 #worldwideballet #siliconvalley #balletclass #sfbayarea #siliconvalleysuccesses #totalnikolay #totalnikolaylook #yagpgrandprix

Charlize Hardwick, Age 13, from Bayer Ballet Academy (coached by Inna Bayer), performs Variation from Sleeping Beauty and Variation from Paquita at the YAGP 2021 San Francisco Semi-Final, where she won First Place in the Junior Classical Category. Comment which variation you prefer! To see more of Charlize, watch her pointe shoe fitting with @ThePointeShop here: https://youtu.be/ySLlKEHSfNM. Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) is the world's largest student ballet scholarship competition and global dance network, connecting students, teachers, schools, dance companies, and audiences worldwide. Now in its 22nd season, YAGP has reached more than 150,000 participants worldwide through its international ballet workshops, ballet auditions, ballet competitions, and ballet master classes. To date, over $4 million has been awarded to young dancers in scholarships to leading dance schools worldwide, including The Ailey School, American Ballet Theatre JKO School, The Australian Ballet School, Ballet West Academy, Berlin State Ballet School, Bolshoi Ballet Academy Summer Intensive, Boston Ballet School, Canada’s National Ballet School, Dutch National Ballet Academy, English National Ballet School, European School of Ballet, Houston Ballet Academy, John Cranko School of The Stuttgart Ballet, The Juilliard School, Paris Opera Ballet School, Princess Grace Academy, The Rock School for Dance Education, The Royal Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, The Washington School of Ballet, and Zurich Dance Academy, among other preeminent institutions in the U.S. and abroad. More than 450 YAGP alumni are now dancing in over 80 leading companies around the world – American Ballet Theatre, The Australian Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Boston Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Dresden Semperoper Ballett, Finnish National Ballet, Houston Ballet, The Joffrey Ballet, Mariinsky Ballet, Miami City Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, New York City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, The Royal Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Staatsballett Berlin, and The Stuttgart Ballet, among others – with more than 100 of them in soloist or principal dancer positions. YAGP’s alumni success stories include some of the most prominent ballet stars in the dance world today: Maria Abashova, Constantine Allen, Sterling Baca, Elisa Badenes, Aran Bell, Isabella Boylston, Skylar Brandt, Jeffrey Cirio, Lia Cirio, Cesar Corrales, Michaela DePrince, Sasha De Dola, Derek Dunn, Isaac Hernandez, Mathias Heymann, Kimin Kim, Lauren Lovette, Julian MacKay, Maia Makhateli, Sara Mearns, Vadim Muntagirov, May Nagahisa, Hannah O’Neill, Calvin Royal III, Marcelino Sambé, Beckanne Sisk, Hee Seo, Christine Shevchenko, Taylor Stanley, James Whiteside, WanTing Zhao, and many other notable alumni. Past guest artists of the annual YAGP Gala at Lincoln Center, Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow, have included such luminaries as Nina Ananiashvili, Roberto Bolle, Ashley Bouder, Darcey Bussell, José Manuel Carreño, Misty Copeland, Robert Fairchild, Marcelo Gomes, David Hallberg, Maria Kochetkova, Ekaterina Kondaurova, Isabelle Guerin, Lucia Lacarra, Manuel Legris, Vladimir Malakhov, Gillian Murphy, Marianela Nunez, Evgenia Obraztsova, Natalia Osipova*, Xander Parish, Tiler Peck, Tamara Rojo, Daniil Simkin, Polina Semionova*, Olga Smirnova, Yuan Yuan Tan, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, Daniel Ulbricht, Ivan Vasiliev*, Diana Vishneva, Wendy Whelan, and many other dance legends. YAGP was the subject of the 2011 award-winning First Position documentary, which followed six participants on their journey to compete at YAGP’s annual NYC Finals. _________________ For more info please visit: https://yagp.org/ SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/YAGPBalletArchive DONATE: https://yagp.org/donate/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/yagp/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/YouthAmericaGrandPrix TWITTER: https://twitter.com/yagp TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@yagpofficial YAGP JAPAN INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/yagpjapan/ YAGP JAPAN FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Youth-America-Grand-Prix-Japan-107947210958539/ YAGP KOREA INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/hee_seo_foundation/ YAGP INDONESIA INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/yagpindonesia/ YAGP BRAZIL INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/yagp_brasil/ YAGP ITALY INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/yagp_italia/ YAGP PHILIPPINES INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/yagpphilippines/ YAGP MEXICO INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/festivaldedanza_yagpmexico/ YAGP GERMANY INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/ygpgermany/ YAGP CHINA WEIBO: https://weibo.com/7512578059/profile?topnav=1&wvr=6 **YAGP owns no rights to the music. Live Performance, fair use. ASCAP license paid. For educational and entertainment purposes only. No copyright infringement intended.**

Founder & Artistic Director of Bayer Ballet, Inna Bayer coaching Apprentice dancer, @victoriakdance in preparation for @YAGP competition this upcoming weekend. ABOUT BAYER BALLET Founded in 2005, Bayer Ballet (Mountain View, CA USA) is a 501c3 non-profit ballet company and academy dedicated to enhancing the cultural well-being of our community by creating equitable accessibility to the Vaganova method of classical ballet through world-class education and performances, which provide the purest experience and insights into this artform. We strive to cultivate and foster an appreciation and love for the artform by providing opportunities for emerging artists in our community to engage, educate and collaborate with world-renowned master artists. We are a Nikolay Partner School @nikolayworld , Member of @internationaldancecouncil_cid and YAGP @yagp Outstanding School (2018-2023). We are the Vaganova Center of Excellence. FOLLOW US https://www.bayerballet.com INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/bayerballetacademy/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/BayerBalletAcademy LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bayerballet 🔔 SUBSCRIBE https://www.youtube.com/bayerballetacademy #bayerballet #yagp #worldwidedance #ballerinasofig #balletpost #yagpotstandingschool #balletbeautifulgirls #балет #mountainviewcalifornia #sfbayareadance #bayareadance #balletclassical #ballerinaonpointes #theweekoninstagram #dancersofig

Bayer Ballet Academy Pre-Professional students demonstrate adagio during class. www.bayerballet.com #bayerballet #vaganova #ballet

Rehearsal footage of Bayer Ballet dancer, Charlize Hardwick (Age 13) Junior 6 Level preparing for competition. First Place Junior Classical Category Winner, YAGP San Francisco Semi-Finals 2021. Coaching by Inna Bayer, Artistic Director. #bayerballet #vaganova #yagp #paquita #ballet 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐁𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓 ⁣⁣ Founded in 2005, Bayer Ballet - Vaganova Center of Excellence has quickly established itself as a reputable dance institution in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Our goal is to make the classical discipline of ballet accessible to new generations, preserve the traditions of Vaganova, and contribute enriching cultural experiences within our community.⁣⁣ The Academy has received international recognition as “Outstanding School” by YAGP (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), Grand Prix (2020), participation in Prix de Lausanne & YoungArts, highest awards at such competitions as World Ballet Competition, and through graduates who have received professional contracts at major ballet companies.  —///—///— 𝐅𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐎𝗪 𝐔𝐒⁣ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE 🔔 Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/ Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/bayerballetacademy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bayerballet https://www.bayerballet.com

Prix de Lausanne 2020 classical variation performed by Bayer Ballet dancer, Alina Taratorin, Paquita, Lead Variation Act 2 Choreography: Marius Petipa Music: Leon Minkus Coaching: Inna Bayer, Artistic Director, Bayer Ballet Prix de Lausanne 2020 - Bayer Ballet's dancers, Alina Taratorin and Katerina (Katya) Panchenko qualified to participate. We are grateful to the master teachers, coaches, adjudicators and administrators, who facilitated excellent master classes and extraordinary coaching. Prix de Lausanne created an inspired environment for the dancers to demonstrate their technique and artistry, with constructive attention given to each participant. This will live on, as a life-changing experience for these dancers, as they continue to train and pursue their passion. —///—///— #bayerballet #vaganova #prixdelausanne #paquita #ballet #dance #audition #balletaudition #preprofessonal 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐁𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓 ⁣⁣ Founded in 2005, Bayer Ballet - Vaganova Center of Excellence has quickly established itself as a reputable dance institution in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Our goal is to make the classical discipline of ballet accessible to new generations, preserve the traditions of Vaganova, and contribute enriching cultural experiences within our community.⁣⁣ The Academy has received international recognition as “Outstanding School” by YAGP (2018, 2019 & 2020), Grand Prix (2020), participation in Prix de Lausanne & YoungArts, highest awards at such competitions as World Ballet Competition, and through graduates who have received professional contracts at major ballet companies. —///—///— 𝐅𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐎𝗪 𝐔𝐒⁣ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE 🔔 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BayerBalletAcademy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bayerballetacademy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bayerballet —///—///— SUMMER INTENSIVE 2021 (Hybrid) Ages 8-18+ Audition: https://www.bayerballet.com/summerintensive TRAINING OPTIONS Pre-Ballet (ages 3-8) Juniors 1-6 (ages 8-13) Apprentice (ages 14-15) Pre- Professional (16+) Adult Classes https://www.bayerballet.com/trainingoptions

Experience the beauty of "Naina’s Magical Garden" from Opera Ruslan and Lyudmila. Bayer Ballet Company dancers present the exquisite Russian Vaganova method in this performance, which premiered in San Francisco, May 2019⁣ at the Palace of Fine Arts. Music - Mikhail Glinka Choreography - Michel Fokine ⁣ ⁣ 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐁𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓 ⁣⁣ Founded in 2005, Bayer Ballet - Vaganova Center of Excellence has quickly established itself as a reputable dance institution in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Our goal is to make the classical discipline of ballet accessible to new generations, preserve the traditions of Vaganova, and contribute enriching cultural experiences within our community.⁣⁣ ✨Bayer Ballet Academy offers in-person & virtual options. Pre-Ballet through Pre-Professional (ages 3-18), Male Program, & Adult Classes. ✨Our Master Vaganova Faculty are graduates of the Vaganova Academy and Bolshoi Ballet Academy, where they received their training and graduate degrees⁣⁣⁣.⁣⁣ ✨Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP), Outstanding School (2018, 2019, 2020), Grand Prix (2020)⁣⁣ ✨World Ballet Competition (WBC), Gold Medalist⁣⁣ ✨American Dance Awards, Choreographer of the Year, Inna Bayer⁣⁣ ✨Prix de Lausanne 2020 - (2) Bayer Ballet dancers selected ⁣⁣ ✨YoungArts Foundation / Finalist Winner #bayerballet #vaganova #ballet 𝐅𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐎𝗪 𝐔𝐒⁣ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BayerBalletAcademy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bayerballetacademy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bayerballet 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎/𝟐𝟏 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓⁣ (𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥, 𝐈𝐧-𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 & 𝐇𝐲𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝) https://www.bayerballet.com/trainingoptions

Prix de Lausanne 2020 classical variation performed by Bayer Ballet dancer, Ekaterina (Katya) Panchenko, Raymonda, Tableau du Reve Act I Choreography: Marius Petipa Music: Alexandre Glazunov Coaching: Inna Bayer, Artistic Director, Bayer Ballet —///—///— #bayerballet #vaganova #prixdelausanne #raymonda #ballet #dance #audition #balletaudition #preprofessonal 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐁𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓 ⁣⁣ Founded in 2005, Bayer Ballet - Vaganova Center of Excellence has quickly established itself as a reputable dance institution in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Our goal is to make the classical discipline of ballet accessible to new generations, preserve the traditions of Vaganova, and contribute enriching cultural experiences within our community.⁣⁣ The Academy has received international recognition as “Outstanding School” by YAGP (2018, 2019 & 2020), Grand Prix (2020), participation in Prix de Lausanne & YoungArts, highest awards at such competitions as World Ballet Competition, and through graduates who have received professional contracts at major ballet companies. —///—///— 𝐅𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐎𝗪 𝐔𝐒⁣ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE 🔔 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BayerBalletAcademy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bayerballetacademy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bayerballet —///—///— SUMMER INTENSIVE 2021 (Hybrid) Ages 8-18+ Audition: https://www.bayerballet.com/summerintensive TRAINING OPTIONS Pre-Ballet (ages 3-8) Juniors 1-6 (ages 8-13) Apprentice (ages 14-15) Pre- Professional (16+) Adult Classes https://www.bayerballet.com/trainingoptions