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Yonah teaches private online lessons
Classical Ballet
Intermediate and Advanced
Coaches Male and Female Solos 1 hour
Teaches Male Virtuosity 1 hour
Speaks: Cuban & English
Teaches: By appointment only
Tuesday and Thursday – afternoon only
Time Zone CET
Starting 18 August 2020
Hourly Rate: £100 GBP
Video
Bio
Yonah Acosta was born in Havana, Cuba, and started dancing at the age of 10 at the National Ballet School Cuba. After his diploma he got engaged at the National Ballet in Havana. In 2011 he joined the English National Ballet where he was promoted to principal dancer in 2014. He won several international dance competitions and was partner of Tamara Rojo and Alina Cojocaru amongst others. In the season 2017/18 he joined the Bayerisches Staatsballett as a principal.
Awards
Silver Medal First Beijing Ballet Competiton (2007)
Grand Prix International Ballett Competition Cuba (2007)
Gold Medal Shanghai International Ballet Competition (2008)
Winner Emerging Dancer and People’s Choice Award (2012)
Mr. Virtuoso Award International Ballet Festival Dance Open (2011, 2012)
Repertoire
Le jeune homme et la mort (R. Petit)
Blue Bird / Prince Désiré in Sleeping Beauty (K. MacMillan)
Franz in Coppelia (R. Hynd)
3. Act in Raymonda (R. Nureyev)
Conrad / Ali in Le Corsaire (A.-M. Holmes)
Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake (D. Deane)
Basilio in Don Quixote (M. Petipa)
Albrecht in Giselle (P. Wright)
Debuts with the Bayerisches Staatsballett
Petrucchio in The Taming of the Shrew (J. Cranko)
The Golden Idol in La Bayadère (M. Petipa/P. Bart)
Lewis Carroll / the White Rabbit in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (C. Wheeldon)
Spartacus in Spartacus (Y. Grigorovich)
Basilio in Don Quijote (R. Barra/L. Minkus)
Philostrat / Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream (J. Neumeier)
Colas in La Fille mal gardée (F. Ashton)
Dancer in Kairos and Sunyata - Portrait Wayne McGregor (W. McGregor)
Abderakhman in Raymonda (R. Barra, M. Petipa)
1st Solo couple in Jewels (G. Balanchine)
Gaston Rieux in The Lady of the Camellias (J. Neumeier)
Franz in Coppélia (R. Petit)
Günther in The Nutcracker (J. Neumeier)
Booking
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If you book a 1 hour session the booking form will require you to state the following:
Required session eg. Class, Solos or Virtuosity
If you choose Solos you will also need to state solo/ballet you wish to be coached in. Please make sure you have the music of the solo prior to the start of the session
SPEND & SAVE You can save money by paying for either a series of 3, 5 or 10 Classes with the same tutor.
The following discounts apply:-
BOOK 3 LESSONS – 5% OFF
BOOK 5 LESSONS – 7% OFF
BOOK 10 LESSONS – 10% OFF
Once you have booked one of the above series of lessons you will have 6 months to complete the number of classes you have booked.
Booking a series of lessons are not transferable to different tutors. All 3, 5, or 10 lessons have to be with the same tutor that you booked the series with.
We hope you will take up the series discount offer enabling you to develop your dance skills.
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