Cici (Zixi) Yu

Princeton Learning Experience (PLE), Youth Teacher of Ballet 

• Designed and taught nine virtual ballet summer intensives to global low-income elementary students (including the Philippines, China, US, Madrid, etc.)
• Created a comprehensive curriculum to elementary students with zero ballet experience; students successfully put together a final virtual performance for friends and family where each individual performed a classical ballet variation
• Been involved since 2019; many students demonstrated high interest in the ballet intensive and returned to my program for consecutive years

Dance Power, Ballet Teaching Artist

• Dance Power collaborates with the New Brunswick Board of Education, offering weekly ballet lessons to all third-grade students at nine public elementary schools in New Brunswick, NJ
• As a Dance Power teaching artist, I lead weekly 40-minute ballet classes consisting of 15-50 third grade students
• Dance Power also offers scholarship opportunities to pre-professional ballet training at Princeton Ballet School to young dancers demonstrating talent and passion
• Students who receive a Dance Power scholarship will receive annual financial support from 4th to 12th grade at Princeton Ballet School

Awards:

• American Dance Competition (ADCIBC) Finals Senior Women National 8th Place '23; Senior Women National Top 25 '22; Junior Women National Top 15 '21
• Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) Senior Women Classical 2nd Place '23 & '22; Senior Women Contemporary Top 12 '23; invited as Finalist '23 & '22
• 2023 Audrey Estee Award of Excellence at Princeton Ballet School
• 2019 Ruth Petite Award of Potential at Princeton Ballet School




Scholarship recipient to programs at:

Atlanta Ballet, Boys Ballet Summer Intensive, Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Cary Ballet Conservatory, Ellison Ballet, HARID conservatory, Houston Ballet, International Ballet Academy, Richmond Ballet, Rock School of Dance, Sarasota Cuban Ballet School, The Washington School of Ballet

Ballet:

Kitri in Don Quixote (Marius Petipa); Cinderella in Cinderella (Luis Napoles and Aydmara Cabrera); Sugar Plum Fairy and Snow Queen in Nutcracker (Marius Petipa); Princess Aurora and Lilac Fairy in Sleeping Beauty (Marius Petipa); Odette in Swan Lake (Marius Petipa); Swanhilda in Coppelia (Marius Petipa); Medora in Le Corsaire 

Contemporary:

Contemporary group piece Se Baila de To (Tania Vergara); Fleeting Moments (Tania Vergara)

American Dance Competition (ADCIBC) Final Round Gala World Premiere piece Timeless (Mimmo Miccolis)