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Taipei International Airport, Taiwan. It's 8 pm local time, but I'm still operating on a clock that's 12 hours behind in Los Angeles. I'm exhausted, but I know that once I see my friends flying in from all over the UK, Europe, and Australia, I'll get a second wind.

This is the question that stands in the way of most young artists applying and submitting materials to the YoungArts program.  It’s a barrier that stands in the way of a lot of artists in many of their endeavors.  Whether it’s an audition at a local theatre, submitting work to be displayed in a gallery, deciding which piece to submit for publishing or shopping around a reel to get to direct a film. 

 People seem to think it’s weird that I’m still hanging around here. “When are you leaving?” they keep asking, my parents’ friends, my old teachers, my younger sister, as she enters my room to take dimensions of her future mega-closet. I guess this is just the latest of the string of questions that inevitably accompany any major rite of passage.

My name is Brittany Bailey and I am a performing artist living in New York City.  In 2008, while attending high-school at University of North Carolina School of the Arts, I received a Merit Scholarship in Modern Dance from YoungArts.  Recently I completed a three month performance with Marina Abramovic and 30 other performing artists at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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Recently I was fortunate enough to be a part of the Dolce & Gabbana 2010 Fall/Winter Ad campaign, featuring Madonna. The whole experience was such a blessing and it all happened so serendipitously. I used to attend an acting school called “ACTeen” and we studied mostly film and on camera acting work there. The owner of the studio had been contacted by MTC Casting for an editorial in GQ about actors in New York so they sent me to Jamie at a Street Cat Named Desire and I went up for it.

“A career in the arts is a hard road to follow. YoungArts gave me the early recognition and validation that is so important for your confidence and trust in yourself. The experience lets you know that if I can do this, I can do anything… [it] gives you the confidence to do what you need to do to advance your career, and go somewhere you can engage with other artists and give yourself the certainty that this is a community that I want to be invested in.” 

~Jean Shin, 1990 winner in Visual Arts and Presidential Scholar in the Arts

The first of our YoungArts Miami "Spotlight Workshops" took place on July 13 at the Arsht Center with Raúl Esparza. Students spent 2 hours with Mr. Esparza, a YoungArts alumnus, learning about musical theater performance skills for analyzing and preparing a song to maximize its dramatic impact. The participants each got personal feedback from Mr. Esparza which transformed their performances right in front of our eyes. It was a great way to start off the Spotlight Workshop series which will feature discipline specific work in smaller groups with nationally and internationally know stars.

“At that moment, when people are following your performance, your singing, they are totally connected with you. And at that moment, they forget about their problems. They really forget about anything else, and they are in communion with you.”—Placido Domingo in the HBO series “MASTERCLASS”

Rafael Moras’s blog post and a video from MASTERCLASS after the jump.

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