Bolshoi Ballet Academy Graduation

Film by Nicholas MacKay This is a very personal video for me. I studied at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy from age 9 to 14.i was the youngest American to ever attend the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and the first American to graduate from the full lower school. I then went on to study at the Vaganova Academy and then on to private training. I am now studying choreography, dancing and working as a professional photographer in Russia . I was so happy when I was asked to return to the Academy to shoot my former classmates graduation! it was such an emotional experience to shoot some of my favourite people and my closest friends at such an important moment in their lives.