FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Calling local student dancers to audition Tuesday, Nov 1 & Thursday,
Nov 3 to perform in Moscow Ballet’s Great
Russian Nutcracker in Cleveland!
“In
addition to featuring local youth dancers as [small] mice and snowflakes...this
acclaimed version of the perennial ballet from Russia includes special
touches.” Chicago Tribune
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-side
with the professional company in Moscow
Ballet’s Great
Russian Nutcracker in Cleveland! The
selected children will perform in the Great
Russian Nutcracker Dec 17 at
the Cleveland Music Hall. Moscow Ballet
Soloist and Audition Director Anna Radik will conduct
auditions at:
1.
Thurs, Nov
1, 6:00pm at
Moscow Ballet local Host Dance Studio Cuyahoga Falls Dance Center,
428 Portage Trail, Cuyahoga
Falls, Ohio 44221
2.
Thurs, Nov 3, 5:30pm at Moscow Ballet’s local Host Dance
Studio En Pointe Danse, 516 East
Washington Street, Chagrin Falls,
OH 44118
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. Moscow Ballet’s “Dance with Us” 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 Great
Russian Nutcracker 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.” Calgary Herald, Stephan Bonfield,
2014.Sign up to audition today at www.nutcracker.com/youth-auditions . Performance tickets are at www.nutcracker.com.
Anna
Radik
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
Host Dance Studio: 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
Host Dance Studio: Cuyahoga Falls Dance Center strives to
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.
Dance with Us brings
a professional, live ballet performance experience to over 5,000 student
dancers in the US and Canada each year since 1994. 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). Julia Zhmutski of Julia’s Dance Academy in Oklahoma City said, “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.” Dance with Us Audition
Directors travel to 100+ North American
cities 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 by
co-producer Mary Gianonne Talmi who also developed “Dance with
Us” program. Click
for more.
Moscow Ballet – 2016 is the company’s 24th
consecutive year touring North America. In addition to the popular Great Russian Nutcracker, company repertory includes classic ballets Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and
Juliet, Cinderella and more. The
company features award-winning
and rising star dancers, from Lilia
Sabitova in 1994 to Alisa
Voronova in 2014. The
company performs 100+ engagements annually across Canada and in most of the
United States’ largest cities consistently receiving critical acclaim. In addition to public
performances, Moscow Ballet dedicates resources to community engagement programs.
The 23 year Dance
with Us 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 Mary Gianonne Talmi. The intensive cultural
immersion project “New Horizons – A
Children’s Program for Life” benefits thousands of school children in tour cities and programs Musical
Wunderkind and Summer
Intensives also
touch the lives of many children and young adults. Moscow Ballet’s partnerships
with corporations and not-for-profit organizations such as the President’s
Challenge Program
and Children’s
Hospitals,
has raised significant revenue. www.moscowballet.com.
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