The four-day competition at a historic theater in Worcester, Massachusetts, is also one of the places where future ballet stars are scouted and go on to perform at the American Ballet Theatre, the Paris Opera Ballet and the New York City Ballet.
Teen dancers descend on Massachusetts to compete in the "American Idol" of ballet Some might call it the “American Idol” of ballet dancing.
More than 400 hundred young ballet dancers from the Northeast gathered in Massachusetts with the hopes of winning a prestigious scholarship at the Youth America Grand Prix auditions.
“I love performing for people and becoming like a character when I dance,” said Karli Wilkinson, a 15-year-old from Dighton, Massachusetts, who was warming up under the watchful eye of her mother, Ashley Wilkinson.
But these kids work so, so hard each and every day, putting in 20, 30 hours a week,"said Ana Canelos, of North Falmouth.
