What are you doing Thanksgiving Weekend after you stuff your face with food and spend time with your family? Need an idea of something you can do that is really fun, different, local, professionally done and beautiful?
GO SEE THE NUTCRACKER!
Photo Credit: Dave Machette
The company is comprised of dancers ages eight through eighteen; selected through audition to ensure our productions are top notch. Though is is a performance done by adolescents, it is the most well done and professional show in the area. I am performing in it for the third time, this year. I can tell you from experience that this is not your average youth ballet performance.
Photo Credit: David Grist
The Nutcracker Ballet is a story of a young girl named Clara, who gets a nutcracker from her uncle. The doll comes to life and entertains the guests at her family's Christmas party. After the party Clara falls into a deep sleep and awakens to find herself in the middle of a battle between the Rat King and the Nutcracker. The soldiers and the rats battle each other while the Nutcracker and the Rat King do the same. The Nutcrackers army of soldiers kills the rat king. Then Clara and her Guardian Angel travel to the Kingdom of Snow and to the Land of Sweets where she is welcomed by many different countries through dancing. Once she arrives at home again, she tells her family of her adventure, but it was just a dream-- or was it?
My roles this year are: towns person, soldier, snow princess, waltz, and Spanish. So to prepare for the performance us dancers put in A LOT of work. Roles are divided up between deserving dancers and we rehearse about 14 hours per weekend and practice around 7 hours during the school week. Next week we begin tech week, in preparation for our show. During tech week, we are at the Wharton every day from 4pm to 10pm and that adds about another 20+ hours of rehearsals before the show begins. CRAZY!!
It is the coolest experience to be able to perform in the Wharton Center!!! Broadway shows and famous people perform there all the time so it is amazing to think that our show is worthy of performing there also. While at the Wharton, each dancer gets a dressing room to share with one to twenty other people depending on their placement in the company. The dressing rooms we use are also used by our idols and it is inspiring to know that. This year, the show performing the day before us is “So You Think You Can Dance Tour”. The stage is huge and the facility is beautiful. It is such a honor to be able to perform there.
For a sneak peek of the show, please visit this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWY4JZnfMu8
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