Honourable Mention
More often than we would desire, exceptional students move on from KVA before they graduate and are pushed from the nest. Their family uproots to take on challenges or employment elsewhere, or the student becomes drafted into a world class ballet school, or exceptional needs have to be addressed beyond the scope (wide though it is) offered at KVA. These exemplary people are not forgotten, and we keep lines of communication open with them. This page is for those that the KVA staff and students respect for their willingness to grow their dream, for their contributions to the KVA world, and for their impact upon the world at large.
Lee Van Wagoner (2006)
- Attended Royal Winnepeg Ballet School for 3 years
- Accepted into the Orlando Ballet School and L’Ecole National de Ballet Contemporain in Montreal
Aven Fisher (2006)
- Won 2nd Place and $250 in the Atlantic Viewfinder’s Animation Challenge, and $1,000 for the People’s Choice Award as well as the Center for Arts and Technology $2500 Scholarship
- The film was accepted for the Brooklyn, NY International Children’s Film Festival (results will not be known until this summer), and the NY Short Short Film Festival.
- In 2006, won 2nd place in the Ottawa Animation Festival with his animation film Bruno.
- Vice President of Student Council (2005/2006)
- Won $10,000 prize at the Ottawa Film Festival (2007) for his clay animation film, Herbert
Michelle Saperstein (2005)
- received the Bill Gates Scholarship 2006 (full scholarship through to doctorate all expenses to any school)
- $28,000 scholarship to Whitman University in Washington State; USA
- Colorado State Debating Champion 2006
- Valedictorian Honors and graduation speaker (2006)
Sarah Douglas - York University on dance choreography scholarship (2005)
Cy Giacomin - Dalhousie University on music scholarship (05), graduated with honours
- Attending McGill University
- Selected to write an original film score for a short film and have it recorded by Symphony NS and screened at the Atlantic Film Festival.
- Won music awards at the NS Kiwanis Music Festival on trombone and piano as well as composition
Jessica Walters - University of West Florida, Sunshine Scholarship Recipient (2004)
Ian Parsons - accepted to the National School of Ballet (2002)
- Graduated from Canada’s National Ballet School, is a dancer with the National Ballet, and has joined the Les Ballet de Monte Carlo in Europe.