EBONY: In August of this year, Nicole Zadra, of Irvington, New York was offered a traineeship at the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, Russia. Established in 1773, the institution has trained “a world class of dancers.”  Zadra, who has been learning ballet since she was four-years-old, has dreamed of being part of this legacy since watching Youtube videos of the Bolshoi when she was younger. read more

San Clemente Times: San Clemente’s Emily Ross has been dancing since she was a toddler but didn’t start to seriously pursue ballet until she was 12. It seems to have taken. Ross, who graduated from San Clemente High School last spring, just returned to the United States after spending five weeks studying ballet at the Bolshoi Ballet, and Russian language education, as a participant of the U.S. State Department’s National Security Language Initiative for Youth. read more

NEWS 12 LONG ISLAND: A 16-year old Anna Craddock from Stony Brook, NY, selected as the NSLI for Youth 2012 program finalist, is headed for a 6-week Russian language and ballet dance training to the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow. watch here

Listen Life with Classical Music  : When Joy Womac k dances onstage at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, she feels entirely at home. Never mind that she was born and raised in California and Texas — this is where she wants to be. “Ya xochu bit Russkoi,” she says fluently. “I want to be Russian.”Read more

Republican-American :  MIDDLEBURY, Conn. — The ballerinas wear name tags scrawled in Cyrillic. On the dance floor in a studio at the private Westover School in Middlebury, the action is intense, precise and unrelenting. A pianist pounds out chords in a corner, accompanying wave after wave of twirling and leaping dancers. One crop of lanky, graceful girls swiftly replaces the next.  read more

Tri-City Herald : Debra Rogo, artistic director of the Mid-Columbia Ballet, is filled with pride and joy as two of her talented ballerinas advance in the dance world. read more

THE DAILY RECORD: RITTMAN — Seventeen-year-old Allison Lapehn will study harder this summer than she has probably ever worked in her life. But for her, that’s just fine because she will spend the next nine weeks dedicating much of her life to what she loves — ballet.  read more

SMITHTOWN PATCH: Anna Craddock, a principal in the Seiskaya Ballet of St. James, is headed to Russia to study ballet, culture and language for six weeks at the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet Academy.  read more

ThreeVillagePatch :  Her peers might spend the summer relaxing at the beach, working a seasonal job, or taking in activities at a summer camp, but Anna Craddock has other plans.  read more

WCVB.COM: Michaela Huang Ying Vitagliano has been selected as one of 15 American high school ballet dancers to attend the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow this summer. watch video