Australian student Bianca Scudamore (pictured) has been awarded 3rd place in the Senior Women's section of the Youth America Grand Prix.
The placing is just one of a string of successes for Bianca, who is a student of Janine McGrath at Classical Coaching Australia in Qld. She also received third place at the Alana Haines Awards in New Zealand over Easter (in the A Group of the Supreme Awards) and was a finalist at the Prix de Lausanne in Switzerland.
First place went to Yu Kurihara, from Japan, and second to Rio Anderson (US)
In the Men's Senior section first place went to Shogo Hayami, a student at the John Cranko School in Stuttgart, Germany, second to Austin Acevedo (US) and third to Lang Ma (US).
In the Junior Women's section, two Australians made it into the top twelve: Lucy Christodoulou, from the Annette Roselli Dance Academy (Qld) and Talia Fidra, from Classical Coaching Australia. First place was shared by Juliette Bosco and Maggie Osbourne (both US). Second place went to Kotomi Yamada from Japan and third to Yeojin Shim, from Korea.
The Junior Men's section was won by Liam Boswell (US) and Yago Guerra (Brazil) with Australian Ryu Bautista coming third. He is a pupil at the McDonald College in Sydney.
Congratulations to all!