DANCE UNITES – Ballet Masterclass with Yannick Boquin
DANCE UNITES – Ballet Masterclass with Yannick Boquin
DANCE UNITES – Ballet Masterclass with Yannick Boquin
23 March, 2019

23 March, 2019

Dance Studio 6, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

Date

23 MAR 2019

Schedule

23.3.2019 (Sun) 1:45pm - 3:15pm

Tickets

Conducted in English Participants must be twelve years old and up with at least five years of ballet training.

Hong Kong Ballet will perform Le Corsaire, our award winning swash buckling ballet at Tuen Mun Town Hall from 29 to 31 March. Le Corsaire showcases classical ballet technique at the highest level, and now, we invite bunheads and dance lovers to come hone-in your ballet technique in our upcoming ballet masterclass.

Yannick Boquin received his dance education at the Paris Opera Ballet School and the National Conservatoire of Paris. He danced as a principal dancer with Bonn Opera Ballet, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Rome Opera Ballet and Deutsche Oper Berlin. Over his career he has been the recipient many prizes, including 1st Prize of the Conservatoire of Paris (1981), Gold Medal at the Houlgate Competition (1985), Gold Medal at the International Competition in Paris (1987) and Positano and Leonide Massine Award (1995). He worked as a Ballet Master with the Vienna Opera Ballet from 2004 until 2006. Since then he has worked as a successful freelance teacher with the numerous ballet companies and schools around the world, such as Bolshoï theater Moscow, Dresden SemperOper Ballet, Finnish National Ballet, Houston Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo and many more.