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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="None"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">This weekend ONLY!
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="None"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A">Beck Center for the Arts Jumps for Joy with<i> The Nutcracker,<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="None"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A">Reimaged Classic For Today’s Times<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></p>
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<p class="BodyA" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:normal"><span class="None"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Lakewood, OH</span></b></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> –
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.beckcenter.org">Beck Center for the Arts</a><span class="None"> is elated to present the upcoming Dance Education
</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Production,
<b><i>The Nutcracker 2021</i></b>. Choreographed by Associate Director of Dance Education Melanie Szucs,
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Anna Roberts and Rachel Soucie,
</span><span class="None"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">this ballet follows the traditional production with a fresh and exuberant twist.
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.showtix4u.com/events/18151"><b><i><span style="color:windowtext">The Nutcracker</span></i></b></a></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">
can be streamed online March 12 to March 14, 2021. <u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
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<span class="None"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">With over 60 Beck Center dance students up to age 18,
<b><i>The Nutcracker 2021 </i></b>showcases the best of Northeast Ohio’s young talent. As Beck Center evolves with the worldwide pandemic it became vital to move this tradition holiday fare to a spring opening. This programing choice has been updated with
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://inthelandofcleve.blogspot.com/2014/05/theatre-veteran-ron-newells-excellent.html">Ron Newell</a> as the “story teller” that will pull this socially-distanced Nutcracker together.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Melanie Szucs stated, “Nutcracker has been a biannual tradition for the dance department. Even with the challenges of the pandemic, our show will go on, albeit socially distanced and delayed
by three months. We are using the traditional story, but each dancer stays in their allotted ‘rectangle’ on stage while dancing which has necessitated creativity from our staff choreographers. The ballet is being filmed one class at a time and edited into
a full ballet. Local favorite Ron Newell will be tying it all together with his animated storytelling.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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This limited engagement of <b><i>The Nutcracker </i></b> can be streamed March 12 at 10:00 am and 7:30 pm, March 13 at 7:30 pm, and March 14 at 3:00 pm, all EST. Tickets are available to stream on a device at $12, $24, $35.
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.showtix4u.com/events/18151"><span class="Hyperlink1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">Tickets are on sale now</span></span></a></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">.
Please call Customer Service for more details at 216-521-2540 x10. </span></span><span class="None"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="BodyA" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span class="None"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Beck Center is located at
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=17801+Detroit+Avenue&entry=gmail&source=g"><span class="Hyperlink2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">17801 Detroit Avenue</span></span></a><span class="None">
in Lakewood, just ten minutes west of downtown Cleveland. For more information visit</span><a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/education/dance"> beckcenter.org</a><span class="None"> or call Beck Center Customer Service at 216.521.2540 x10.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="BodyAA"><span class="None"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Programming at
</span></span><span class="Hyperlink1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%">Beck Center for the Arts</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> is made possible through the generous support of the Ohio Arts Council.
Beck Center gratefully acknowledges the generous funding provided by the citizens of Cuyahoga County through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.
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<p class="BodyAA"><span class="Hyperlink1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%">Beck Center for the Arts</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that offers professional
theater productions on two stages, arts education programming in dance, music, theater, visual arts, early childhood, and creative arts therapies for individuals with disabilities, free gallery exhibits year-round, and outreach education programming.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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