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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Calling local student dancers to audition Tuesday, Nov 1 & Thursday,
Nov 3 to perform in Moscow Ballet’s <i>Great
Russian Nutcracker</i> in Cleveland! <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“In
addition to featuring local youth dancers as [small] mice and snowflakes...this
acclaimed version of the perennial ballet from Russia includes special
touches.” <i>Chicago Tribune</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bold">High-resolution images:</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif;color:#656E74"> </span><a href="http://www.nutcracker.com/promo"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif">http://www.nutcracker.com/promo</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<pre><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Contact</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Sally Michael Keyes </span><a href="mailto:sally@nutcracker.com" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">sally@nutcracker.com</span></a><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> (413) 499-1733 x21</span></pre>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-outline-level:2;vertical-align:
baseline"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(Berkshires, MA) </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Oct 13, 2016</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">– </span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Calling local student dancers to audition to perform side-by-side
with the professional company in </span></b><a href="http://www.moscowballet.com/about-us/mission"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Moscow
Ballet</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">’s </span></b><a href="http://www.nutcracker.com/about-us/about-the-great-russian-nutcracker"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Great
Russian Nutcracker</span></i></b></a><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> in </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Cleveland</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">! </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The
selected children will perform in the <i>Great
Russian Nutcracker</i> Dec 17 at
the <em><span style="background: white;">Cleveland Music Hall</span></em>.</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Moscow Ballet
Soloist and Audition Director </span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Anna Radik </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">will conduct
auditions at: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Thurs, Nov
1, 6:00pm<b> </b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">at
Moscow Ballet local Host Dance Studio <b>Cuyahoga Falls Dance Center,</b>
428 Portage Trail, Cuyahoga
Falls, Ohio 44221 <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white;">Thurs, Nov 3, 5:30pm at Moscow Ballet’s local Host Dance
Studio <b>En Pointe Danse,</b> 516 East
Washington Street, Chagrin Falls,
OH 44118 </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Student
dancers, boys and girls, ages 7 to 17 years, and who have at least one year of
ballet training, may audition for ancillary roles such as Party Children, Mice,
Snowflakes, Angels and more. The auditions are free, there may be a casting
fee.<b> </b>Moscow Ballet’s <b><span style="color:#0070C0">“</span></b></span><a href="http://www.nutcracker.com/education/dance-with-us"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
color:#0070C0">Dance with Us</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">” program brings 6000 student
dancers on stage to perform in a professional environment annually for 24 years
– a once in a lifetime experience for many children! “It
really brought the idea home that the <i>Great
Russian Nutcracker</i> is a wonderful chance for children to be in a
full-length production and experience first-hand an authentic classical ballet
from this uniquely Russian company of remarkable performers.” <i>Calgary Herald</i>, Stephan Bonfield,
2014.<b>Sign up to audition today at </b></span><a href="http://www.nutcracker.com/youth-auditions"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">www.nutcracker.com/youth-auditions</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> . Performance tickets are at </span></b><a href="http://www.nutcracker.com/"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">www.nutcracker.com</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red">.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Radik</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
hails from Kiev in Ukraine and was trained in the Ukraine State Ballet and
Choreography School. She performs many roles including the Chinese Variation,
Russian Variation, Act I ‘s magical Kissy Doll and the demanding acro-balletic
Arabian Variation. Canada’s Calgary Herald Dance Critic Stephan Bonfield
comments, “The standout Arabian Variation pas de deux, [was] danced
breathtakingly beautifully by Anna Radik and Artem Kadurin, with sinewy grace
and exquisitely contortioned smoothness of line.” Click for more <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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line-height:150%;background:white"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Host Dance Studio</span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">:</span> <span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Our goal is to provide En Pointe Danse
students with a strong technical foundation in ballet, and other dance forms,
while encouraging a joy for dancing that they will take with them wherever they
go. We want our students to be able to apply the lessons learned in dance, such
as discipline, perseverance, creative thinking and a developed sense of
physical well-being, to the rest of their lives. We also promote the growth of
our students’ self-confidence, self-expression, and their ability to thrive in
a performance setting. Contact Gail Friedberg 440-247-5747<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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foster self-confidence, physical fitness, and artistic expression in our
students. Students work hard, accept corrections gracefully, feel beautiful,
and challenge themselves to move to music. The studio witnesses their personal
growth as they learn to interact with one another with courtesy and respect.
Students are encouraged to give back to the community that has supported their
endeavors and to become role models of accomplishments and integrity. Above
all, the studio is a joyful place where our students smile, laugh, have fun and
encourage one another.<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
color:#1F497D;mso-themecolor:text2"><a href="http://www.nutcracker.com/dance-with-us">Dance with Us</a></span></b><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-themecolor:text2"> </span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">brings
a professional, live ballet performance experience to over 5,000 student
dancers in the US and Canada each year since 1994.<b> </b>Local student dancers ages 7 to 17 audition and rehearse with
Moscow Ballet Audition directors who travel to each town eight weeks before the
performance. The auditions are open to student dancers from all studios and
they are free. (There is a casting fee for participation). <span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Julia Zhmutski of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.juliadanceacademy.com/"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Julia’s Dance Academy</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">in Oklahoma City said,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">“It was such an amazing opportunity for our young
dancers to learn and grow and see how a professional company works. We loved
the fact that the original Nutcracker was used and the costumes were
breathtaking.” </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif">Dance with Us<b> </b></span><a href="http://www.nutcracker.com/dance-with-us/audition-directors"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Audition
Directors</span></a><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">travel to 100+ North American
cities in September and October auditioning and rehearsing local. Dance with Us<b> </b>is underwritten by Moscow Ballet.
Partnerships with local dance studios in performance cities are developed by
co-producer<b> </b></span><a href="http://www.akivatalmipresents.com/about.html"><span style="font-size:
9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mary Gianonne Talmi</span></a><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">who also developed “Dance with
Us” program.<b> </b></span><a href="http://www.nutcracker.com/dance-with-us"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Click
for more</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<h3 style="line-height:150%"><a href="http://www.nutcracker.com/about-mb/mission"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Moscow Ballet</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">–</span><span style="font-size:
9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">2016 is the company’s 24<sup>th</sup>
consecutive year touring North America</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">. I</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">n addition to the popular <i>Great Russian Nutcracker</i>, </span><a href="http://www.nutcracker.com/about-mb/repertory"><span style="font-size:
9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">company repertory</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> includes classic ballets <i>Swan Lake</i>, <i>Sleeping Beauty</i>, <i>Romeo and
Juliet</i>, <i>Cinderella</i> and more. The
company features </span><a href="http://www.nutcracker.com/about-mb/principal-artists"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">award-winning
and rising star dancers</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">, from </span><a href="http://sabitovaballet.com/data/eng/main_1.html"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Lilia
Sabitova</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> in 1994 to </span><a href="http://www.nutcracker.com/about-mb/principal-artists/9-uncategorised/1198"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Alisa
Voronova</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> in 2014. The
company performs 100+ engagements annually across Canada and in most of the
United States’ largest cities consistently receiving </span><a href="http://www.nutcracker.com/news/press-quotes"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">critical acclaim</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">. In addition to public
performances, Moscow Ballet dedicates resources to community engagement programs.
The 23 year </span><a href="http://www.nutcracker.com/youth-auditions/dance-with-us-program"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dance
with Us</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> program
shares the Russian Vaganova ballet training with over 5000 American dance
students annually bringing them on stage in ancillary roles to perform
side-by-side with the professionals. Underwritten by Moscow Ballet, the program
was developed by choreographer and co-producer </span><a href="http://www.akivatalmipresents.com/about.html"><span style="font-size:
9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mary Gianonne Talmi</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">. The intensive cultural
immersion project “</span><a href="http://www.nutcracker.com/education/new-horizons"><span style="font-size:
9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">New Horizons – A
Children’s Program for Life</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">” benefits thousands of school children in tour cities and programs </span><a href="http://www.nutcracker.com/education/youthsoloists"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Musical
Wunderkind</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> and </span><a href="http://www.nutcracker.com/education/summer-intensives"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Summer
Intensives</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">also
touch the lives of many children and young adults. Moscow Ballet’s partnerships
with corporations and not-for-profit organizations such as the </span><a href="http://www.nutcracker.com/education/presidents-challenge"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">President’s
Challenge Program</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">
and </span><a href="http://www.nutcracker.com/buy-tickets/partnerships"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Children’s
Hospitals</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif">,</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;
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has raised significant revenue. </span><a href="http://www.moscowballet.com/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">www.moscowballet.com</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
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