Our Achievements
Competitions are a valuable way to gain experience on the stage – and a helpful focus for your training year. Spending six to nine months perfecting a variation teaches young dancers how to develop artistically and technically over time, versus learning something for a month and never re-visiting it. They make one to get to the results, have something to show for all the work that was put into rehearsals and classes.
2023
California Dance Classics, Los Angeles, March 9, 2023
🥇 🥇 1st place in both Classical and Contemporary categories – Anna Hay
California Dance Classics, San Diego, March 2, 2023
Information coming up
YAGP Semifinals, Los Angeles, FEB 1, 2023
🥇 1st place Bianca Vezzali. Contemporary category. Invited to the finals
🥈 2nd place Amelie Bott-Suzuki. Contemporary category. Invited to the finals
Top 12 Anna Hay. Both classical & contemporary categories. Invited to the finals
Top 24 Lysha Canseco. Junior Classical category
ADC | IBC Semi-finals, Phoenix, JAN 2023
🥇 1st place Bianca Vezzali. Primary contemporary category. “She is found”
🥈 2nd place Bianca Vezzali. Primary classical category. Swanhilda variation from Coppelia
🥇 1st place Amelie Bott-Suzuki. Junior Classical category. Variation from La Esmeralda
🥇 1st place Amelie Bott-Suzuki. Junior Contemporary category. A song for Europa
Youth Ballet Masters, Fullerton, CA, JAN 2023
🥇 1st place Anna Hay. Pre-competitive classical category
2022
YAGP Semi-finals, San Diego, November 2022
Egle Spokaite – outstanding Teacher Award
Bianca Vezzali – 1st place in Classical pre-competitive
Bianca Vezzali – 2nd place in Contemporary pre-competitive
Amelie Bott-Suzuki – 2nd place in Classical Junior
Amelie Bott-Suzuki – Top 12 in Contemporary Junior
Emma Jacobs — Top 12 in Classical Senior
Emma Jacobs — Top 12 in Contemporary Senior
WBAC Grand Prix, San Diego semifinals, October 29, 2022
Best Teachers Award (Groups A & B): Egle Spokaite, Artistic Director of Ballet Institute
Classical Group A: 1st Place Award Bianca Vezzali
Classical Group B: 1st Place Award Amelie Bott-Suzuki
Contemporary Group A: 1st Place Award Bianca Vezzali
Contemporary Group B: 1st Place Award Amelie Bott-Suzuki
Best Choreography Award: A song for Europa (Zack Sommer, danced by Amelie Bott-Suzuki)
SPERA International Ballet Competition, June 2022 (Virtual via Video recordings)
🥇 1st place Anna Hay age 7 classic/neoclassic category. Taglioni
🥇 1st place Anna Hay age 7 contemporary category. Ocean
🥈 2nd place Anna Hay age 7 classic/neoclassic category. Bunny dance
🥇 1st place Amelie Bott-Suzuki age 12 classic/neoclassic category. Flower Festival in Genzano
🥈 2nd place Amelie Bott-Suzuki age 12 classic/neoclassic category. The sleeping Beauty
🥈 2nd place Amelie Bott-Suzuki age 12 contemporary category. La Voyage
🥉 3rd place Bianca Vezzali age 10 contemporary. Within
🌞 4th place Hikari Oda age 10 contemporary. The Beggining
🌞 5th place Bianca Vezzali age 10
classic and neoclassic. La Sylphide Effie’s variation
🌞 5th place Emma Jacobs age 14 Classics. Lilac variation from The Sleeping Beauty
🌞4th place Emma Jacobs age 14 contemporary. Aria
🌞5th place Scarlett Avila age 12 contemporary.Mask
🌞6th place Bianca Vezzali age 10 classical . Esmeralda’s variation
🌞7th place Classical Hikari Oda age 10 Bebe variation from Fairy Doll
🌞6th place Bianca Vezzali age 10 contemporary . My Demons are chasing.
🌞6th place Ashlyn Chu age 8. Nutcracker.
🩰 Best teacher award Egle Spokaite classic and neoclassic, age group 2, age 7-8
🩰 Best teacher award Egle Spokaite classic and neoclassic, age group 4, age 11-12
🩰 Best teacher award Egle Spokaite contemporary, age group 2, age 7-8
🎯 Special award: Best artistic expression, from two judges individually Anna Hay age 7 Bunny dance
🎯 Special award: class with Jury Yannick Boquin Amelie Bott-Suzuki age 12
🎯 Special award: summer workshop off BBA (Bavarian Ballet Academy, Munich) + 3-month scholarship Amelie Bott-Suzuki age 12
California Dance Classics. March 3, 2022
EARLIER YEARS
YAGP
- 2nd Place in the pre-competitive classical category – Amelie Bott Suzuki – 2021. Finalist of the YAGP 2021.
- 3rd Place in pre-competitive contemporary – Amelie Bott Suzuki – 2021. Choreography “2nd set” by Amelie herself. Finalist of the YAGP 2021.
- Finalist of the YAGP 2021 int the pre-competitive classical category – Laura Lu
- Top 6 in Ensemble category – Russian Dance – 2021. Finalist of the YAGP 2021
- Finalist of the YAGP 2021 – Pas Des Sept Bohémiennes group dance
- Finalist of the YAGP 2021 in ensemble category – Parade group dance
- Top 12 in the contemporary category – Emerson Matiasevich -2021
- Top 12 in the pre-competitive contemporary category – Bianca Vezzali -2021
- Top 12 in the pre-competitive classical category – Hikari Oda – 2021
- Top 12 in the pre-competitive classical category – Mya Chmel – 2021
- Top 12 in the classical category – Scarlett Avila – 2021
- 1st Place in the pre-competitive classical category – Amelie Bott Suzuki – 2020
- 2nd place in Ensemble category 2020
- Top 6 in Small Ensemble category 2020
- Top 6 in Large Ensemble category – 2020. Finalist of the YAGP 2020 (canceled due to covid-19).
- Top 6 in Contemporary and Classical Categories – Jasmine van Zoest – 2018
YOUTH INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION
2022 Semi-finals. Seattle, Jan 15-16, 2022
1st Place in Junior Classical Ballet division: Amelie Bott-Suzuki
1st Place in Junior Contemporary Dance division: Amelie Bott-Suzuki
WORLD BALLET ART GRAND PRIX, Canada
2021 Semi-finals. Nov 7. San Diego
Best Teacher Award: Egle Spokaite
Best Choreography Award: Amelie Bott-Suzuki & Renee Kester (Fly)
Classical. Group A
1st Place Award Bianca Vezzali
2nd Place Award Laura Lu
Group B
1st Place Award Emma Jacobs
2nd Place Award Scarlett Avila
3rd Place Award Emerson Matiasevich
3rd Place Award Nora Grace Nguyen (alumni of Ballet Institute)
Contemporary. Group A
1st Place Award Bianca Vezzali
Group B
1st Place Award Emmerson Matiasevich
2nd Place Award Emma Jacobs
- 1st place in classical category – Amelie Bott-Suzuki – San Diego, 2019
- 3rd place in contemporary category in the Finals – Amelie Bott-Suzuki – Niagara Falls, Canada, 2019
- 6th place in classical category Finals – Amelie Bott-Suzuki – Niagara Falls, Canada, 2019
- Bronze medal – Nora Nguyen – San Diego, 2018
- Jasmine and Pearl Van Zoests were the finalists of the World Ballet Competition.(WBC), 2018
GRASSE BALLET COMPETITION, France
- Nora Nguyen won the Silver medal at the Grasse Ballet Competition, Grasse (France) 2018
BARI BALLET COMPETITION, Italy
a.k.a. IBCDC “Domenico Modugno”
- 5th highest score amongst women, pre-competitive division – Amelie Bott-Suzuki – 2021
CALIFORNIA DANCE CLASSICS, CA
- Gold Medal in the Classical category for ages 8 and below – Anna Hay, age 6. – 2021, San Francisco
- Gold Medal in the National Character Dance category – Anna Hay, age 6. – 2021, San Francisco
- Silver Medal in Neoclassical category – Mya Chmel – 2021, San Francisco
- Silver medal in the classical category for ages 8 and below – Anna Hay – while Anna just turned 6 – 2020
- Mya Chmel – gold medal in Neoclassical category. 2020
ICON DANCE AWARDS
- 1st place in classical category (ages 5-7) – Anna Hay – 2021
- 2st place in Youth Classical category – Amelie Bott-Suzuki – 2021
- 2st place in Youth Contemporary category – Amelie Bott-Suzuki – 2021
- “Judges Oustanding Performance” – Amelie Bott-Suzuki (Flames of Paris) – 2021
- 4th place in the Young Choreographers category – Amelie Bott Suzuki with her second choreography “No.2” – 2020
US PRIX DE BALLET, CA
- 1st place in classical category – Amelie Bott-Suzuki – 2020
- 2nd place in contemporary category – Amelie Bott-Suzuki – 2020
- Top 10 – Amelie Bott-Suzuki – 2020
- Silver medal – Andie Isidro – 2018
WORLD BALLET COMPETITION, FL
2018
Finalist: Jasmine Van Zoest
Finalist: Pearl Van Zoest
VILNIUS BALLET COMPETITION, Lithuania
- Nora Nguyen won the Gold Medal at Vilnius International Ballet competition, 2017
- Amelie Bott-Suzuki won the Bronze Medal at Vilnius (Lithuania) International Ballet competition, 2017
SCHOLARSHIPS / AWARDS
- FREED of London Cash Prize – Anna Hay (California Dance Classics, San Francisco, 2021)
- Scholarship to Bolshoi Ballet Academy Summer intensive 2020 – Amelie Bott-Suzuki
- Scholarship from Ballet West for the summer intensive – Amelie Bott-Suzuki – 2020
- A&A Ballet Scholarship award for Excellence – Amelie Bott-Suzuki, 2020
- Full scholarship to SAB Summer Intensive in NYC and Irvine, CA in 2017 and 2018 – Andie Isidro
