NEW YORK (AP) – Hundreds of young dancers wearing white tutus and coiffed hair gathered at New York’s Plaza Hotel on Wednesday to break a world record for dancing on pointe.
The spectacle, held over three nights at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, was organized by Youth America Grand Prix, a ballet scholarship program celebrating its 25th anniversary.
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Dancers included professional dancers who are graduates of the program, as well as students ages 9 to 19 who are competing for scholarships.
Hundreds of young dancers, dressed in white tutus and with their hair tied back, gathered at New York’s Plaza Hotel to break a world record for dancing on pointe. (Fox News)
Tchaikovsky’s music played for a full minute while the ballerina stood on her tiptoes and quickly shifted her weight from one foot to the other (a step called a bouley).
Guinness World Records judge Tina See announced the results, saying, “353, this is a new Guinness World Record! Congratulations!”
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New York-based Youth America Grand Prix has run the world’s largest student ballet scholarship competition since 1999.
The previous record for ballerinas who danced pointe in unison was 306.
