American Ballet Theatre corps de ballet member Madison Brown and ABT Studio Firm dancer Kayla Mak are every the recipient of a 2025 Princess Grace Award for dance efficiency. The annual Princess Grace Basis-USA awards had been introduced August 5 in New York Metropolis. Brown acquired the specifically designated Chris Hellman Dance Award, awarded to 1 recipient within the dance class annually. Mak was nominated by The Juilliard Faculty, the place she acquired her Bachelor of Fantastic Arts diploma in dance in 2025.
Principal Dancer Isabella Boylston, a earlier Princess Grace awardee (2009), acquired a 2025 Statue Award. The Statue Award honors previous winners of Princess Grace Awards who’ve distinguished themselves of their creative self-discipline since profitable the preliminary award.
Madison Brown, from Wellington, Florida, started dancing at age two and joined Lents Dance Firm and The Artwork of Classical Ballet at ten. In 2018, she carried out modern works on NBC’s World of Dance. Brown earned the Legacy Award at Common Alliance and was named Nationwide Excellent Dancer by the New York Metropolis Dance Alliance in 2015, 2017, and 2019. In 2019, she received a gold medal on the World Ballet Competitors, the Youth Grand Prix Award at Youth America Grand Prix in Tampa, and a bronze at YAGP Finals in New York. An ABT Nationwide Coaching Scholar from 2018 to 2021, she joined ABT’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Faculty in 2021 and the ABT Studio Firm in 2022. That 12 months, she carried out with Mariah Carey on the International Citizen Pageant. In 2023, Brown danced Aleisha Walker’s Do You Care? at Prix de Lausanne. She grew to become an apprentice with American Ballet Theatre in November 2023 and joined the corps de ballet in July 2024.
Kayla Mak, raised in Rye Brook, New York, with Japanese, Chinese language, and Cuban heritage, skilled at Westchester Dance Academy and Ballet Academy East earlier than incomes her BFA in dance at The Juilliard Faculty underneath Alicia Graf Mack and Mario Alberto Zambrano. She appeared on NBC’s World of Dance and carried out as Clara within the Radio Metropolis Christmas Spectacular. Mak collaborated with Juliano Nunes for summer season festivals in Switzerland and Mexico. Becoming a member of ABT Studio Firm in September 2024, she created a job in Houston Thomas’s U Don’t Know Me and carried out in new works by Amy Corridor Garner, Madison Brown, James Whiteside, and Brady Farrar, alongside Balanchine’s Tarantella, Robbins’s Interaction, and Lebrun’s Human. She danced in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker with American Ballet Theatre’s important Firm. Mak will be part of the ABT Studio Firm Apprentice Program in September 2025 and change into an apprentice with the primary Firm in December 2025.
Isabella Boylston joined ABT Studio Firm in 2005, grew to become an apprentice with the primary Firm in Might 2006, and joined the corps de ballet in March 2007. She was promoted to Soloist in June 2011 and Principal Dancer in August 2014. Her intensive repertory consists of Nikiya and Gamzatti in La Bayadère, Kitri in Don Quixote, the title roles in Firebird, Giselle, Jane Eyre, Manon, and Sylvia, Clara in Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, and main roles in works by Ashton, Balanchine, Bond, King, Lang, McGregor, Millepied, Tharp, Wheeldon, and Whiteside. Boylston earned a 2010 Prix Benois de la Danse nomination, the 2011 Clive Barnes Award, and the 2014 Annenberg Fellowship, showcasing her versatility and artistry throughout classical and modern ballet.
The Princess Grace Basis-USA, a public charity, was fashioned after the loss of life of Princess Grace in 1982. The Basis awards scholarships, apprenticeships, and fellowships to rising theater, dance and movie artists to help with profession growth. The 2025 winners will obtain their awards on the annual black-tie Princess Grace Awards Gala, within the presence of HSH The Princess of Monaco, on October 29, 2025, in New York Metropolis.
