FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Calling local student dancers to audition Tuesday, Nov 1 & Thursday,Nov 3 to perform in Moscow Ballet’s GreatRussian Nutcracker in Cleveland! “Inaddition to featuring local youth dancers as [small] mice and snowflakes...thisacclaimed version of the perennial ballet from Russia includes specialtouches.” Chicago Tribune High-resolution images: http://www.nutcracker.com/promo Contact: Sally Michael Keyes sally@nutcracker.com (413) 499-1733 x21 (Berkshires, MA) Oct 13, 2016 – Calling local student dancers to audition to perform side-by-sidewith the professional company in MoscowBallet’s GreatRussian Nutcracker in Cleveland! Theselected children will perform in the GreatRussian Nutcracker Dec 17 atthe Cleveland Music Hall. Moscow BalletSoloist and Audition Director Anna Radik will conductauditions at: 1. Thurs, Nov1, 6:00pm atMoscow Ballet local Host Dance Studio Cuyahoga Falls Dance Center, 428 Portage Trail, CuyahogaFalls, Ohio 44221 2. Thurs, Nov 3, 5:30pm at Moscow Ballet’s local Host DanceStudio En Pointe Danse, 516 EastWashington Street, Chagrin Falls,OH 44118 Studentdancers, boys and girls, ages 7 to 17 years, and who have at least one year ofballet training, may audition for ancillary roles such as Party Children, Mice,Snowflakes, Angels and more. The auditions are free, there may be a castingfee. Moscow Ballet’s “Dance with Us” program brings 6000 studentdancers on stage to perform in a professional environment annually for 24 years– a once in a lifetime experience for many children! “Itreally brought the idea home that the GreatRussian Nutcracker is a wonderful chance for children to be in afull-length production and experience first-hand an authentic classical balletfrom this uniquely Russian company of remarkable performers.” Calgary Herald, Stephan Bonfield,2014.Sign up to audition today at www.nutcracker.com/youth-auditions . Performance tickets are at www.nutcracker.com. AnnaRadikhails from Kiev in Ukraine and was trained in the Ukraine State Ballet andChoreography School. She performs many roles including the Chinese Variation,Russian Variation, Act I ‘s magical Kissy Doll and the demanding acro-balleticArabian Variation. Canada’s Calgary Herald Dance Critic Stephan Bonfieldcomments, “The standout Arabian Variation pas de deux, [was] dancedbreathtakingly beautifully by Anna Radik and Artem Kadurin, with sinewy graceand exquisitely contortioned smoothness of line.” Click for more Host Dance Studio: Our goal is to provide En Pointe Dansestudents with a strong technical foundation in ballet, and other dance forms,while encouraging a joy for dancing that they will take with them wherever theygo. We want our students to be able to apply the lessons learned in dance, suchas discipline, perseverance, creative thinking and a developed sense ofphysical well-being, to the rest of their lives. We also promote the growth ofour students’ self-confidence, self-expression, and their ability to thrive ina performance setting. Contact Gail Friedberg 440-247-5747 Host Dance Studio: Cuyahoga Falls Dance Center strives tofoster self-confidence, physical fitness, and artistic expression in ourstudents. Students work hard, accept corrections gracefully, feel beautiful,and challenge themselves to move to music. The studio witnesses their personalgrowth as they learn to interact with one another with courtesy and respect.Students are encouraged to give back to the community that has supported theirendeavors and to become role models of accomplishments and integrity. Aboveall, the studio is a joyful place where our students smile, laugh, have fun andencourage one another. Dance with Us bringsa professional, live ballet performance experience to over 5,000 studentdancers in the US and Canada each year since 1994. Local student dancers ages 7 to 17 audition and rehearse withMoscow Ballet Audition directors who travel to each town eight weeks before theperformance. The auditions are open to student dancers from all studios andthey are free. (There is a casting fee for participation). Julia Zhmutski of Julia’s Dance Academy in Oklahoma City said, “It was such an amazing opportunity for our youngdancers to learn and grow and see how a professional company works. We lovedthe fact that the original Nutcracker was used and the costumes werebreathtaking.” Dance with Us AuditionDirectors travel to 100+ North Americancities in September and October auditioning and rehearsing local. Dance with Us is underwritten by Moscow Ballet.Partnerships with local dance studios in performance cities are developed byco-producer Mary Gianonne Talmi who also developed “Dance withUs” program. Clickfor more. Moscow Ballet – 2016 is the company’s 24thconsecutive year touring North America. In addition to the popular Great Russian Nutcracker, company repertory includes classic ballets Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Romeo andJuliet, Cinderella and more. Thecompany features award-winningand rising star dancers, from LiliaSabitova in 1994 to AlisaVoronova in 2014. Thecompany performs 100+ engagements annually across Canada and in most of theUnited States’ largest cities consistently receiving critical acclaim. In addition to publicperformances, Moscow Ballet dedicates resources to community engagement programs.The 23 year Dancewith Us programshares the Russian Vaganova ballet training with over 5000 American dancestudents annually bringing them on stage in ancillary roles to performside-by-side with the professionals. Underwritten by Moscow Ballet, the programwas developed by choreographer and co-producer Mary Gianonne Talmi. The intensive culturalimmersion project “New Horizons – AChildren’s Program for Life” benefits thousands of school children in tour cities and programs MusicalWunderkind and SummerIntensives alsotouch the lives of many children and young adults. Moscow Ballet’s partnershipswith corporations and not-for-profit organizations such as the President’sChallenge Programand Children’sHospitals,has raised significant revenue. www.moscowballet.com. ###