Antwerp ballet student makes final of Youth America Grand Prix
Fourteen-year-old Mikiya Kakehashi of Antwerp’s Royal Ballet School won the European semi-finals of the prestigious Youth America Grand Prix and will head to the finals in New York
Mikiya Kakehashi arrived in Antwerp six months ago from Japan
The 14-year-old came to Antwerp from Japan six months ago to study at the school after impressing the artistic director Michael Shannon during an audition. “The instructors here are very good,” said the student, “and I also find Antwerp a fun city to live in”.
Mikiya recently danced in the school’s production of The Nutcracker Suite and hopes one day to dance with “the Royal Ballet of London or with the Paris Opera”.
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Lisa Bradshaw is the editor-in-chief of Flanders Today. She worked as an editor and journalist in her homeland, the United States, before moving to the awesome city of Ghent in 2004. If she’s not in the office, she’s probably at a film festival.
