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LILIT HOGTANIAN
GROOMING FOR THE PROS
She may not have her driver’s license yet, but 16-year-old ballet dancer Lilit Hogtanian can fouetté with the best of them. The 5-foot-2 dynamo from Montebello first danced Clara two years ago in Los Angeles Ballet’s inaugural “Nutcracker,” and this year she won the Prix de Lausanne Participation Award in Switzerland. Then, having turned down an offer to study at the late choreographer Maurice Béjart’s Rudra School in Lausanne, she pirouetted her way to Monaco, where she is now on full scholarship at the Princess Grace Academy. Hogtanian began studying ballet at age 6 with Yuri Grigoriev in Venice. A decade later, her grace and technical assurance belie her years. She has performed with the Kirov Ballet in “La Bayadère” at the Kodak Theatre in 2003 (as one of two demi-soloists) and again at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in 2005, when she danced the lead girl in the waltz section of “The Sleeping Beauty.” The dark-haired teen was scheduled to finish her third season as Clara with L.A. Ballet this weekend.
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