GREAT RUSSIAN NUTCRACKER - Moscow Ballet Non Equity Auditions

Posted September 6, 2014
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GREAT RUSSIAN NUTCRACKER - Moscow Ballet

Local dance students invited to audition Wed, Oct 1 for Moscow Ballet ballerina and to perform in Great Russian Nutcracker in Easton

“A thrilling experience for student dancers and a great opportunity to get up close and personal with the [Moscow Ballet] principals and soloists,” Regina Herald, Barbara Woolsey

Dance with Us students perform side-by-side with the pros


Moscow Ballet
announces open auditions Wed Oct 1, 6:00pm for student dancers ages 7 to 16 years at Theatre Center for the Arts, 453 Northampton St., Easton, PA. Moscow Ballet’s “
Dance with Us” Audition Director
Olga Aru
will be present to select 60 student dancers to perform side-by-side with the professional company of 40 Russian dancers. Students are cast in ancillary roles of Party Children, Mice, Snowflakes, Angels, and more. They will perform in the Great Russian Nutcracker at the State Theatre Center for the Arts Sat, Dec 13, 3:00 & 7:00pm. Moscow Ballet is pleased to work with
Pennsylvania Classical Ballet to make the open audition, rehearsals and performances possible. Applicants must be between 7 and 16 years old, have at least one year of ballet training, dress in dance attire and may bring Pointe shoes. The experience of working and performing with professional ballerinas is often a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for aspiring dancers. “The payoff at the end of the rehearsals is the opportunity to be part of Christmas magic, to dance under shimmering lights with award-winning Russian dancers against exquisite hand-painted sets. It’s great for the kids. They get to dance in a professional production,” affirms Margaret Engle of Dance City Productions FL. Register at
www.nutcracker.com/youth-auditions/sign-up-to-audition . More info:
610-440-0958 or
directors@paclassicalballet.org


Olga Aru is a rising star ballerina and dance pedagogue who received her degree in ballet and dance pedagogy from the Kiev State Ballet College, Ukraine. In addition to touring with Moscow Ballet she dances with Compagnia Aleph, Piroetta Dance in Rome, Italy and with Les Ballet Persans in Stockholm and more.
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Moscow Ballet - In addition to the Great Russian Nutcracker, Moscow Ballet repertory includes classic ballets Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella and more. For over twenty years the company has performed 100 engagements annually in North America including in a majority of the top twenty demographic markets. Moscow Ballet has received critical acclaim from media outlets and was invited to present at 2
National Press Club Newsmaker events. In addition to the public performances, the company’s mission and national platform enables it to share the Russian Vaganova training with over 5000 local dance students annually in the
“Dance with Us” program.
“New Horizons - A Children’s Program for Life” is an intensive cultural immersion project that benefits thousands of school children and on-going programs
Musical Wunderkind,
Master Classes and
Summer Intensives also touch the lives of many more children and young adults. Moscow Ballet’s partnership with corporations and not-for-profit organizations such as the
President’s Challenge Program,
Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, and
Capezio over the past 20 years has raised awareness of and revenue for their significant missions and causes.
www.moscowballet.com.

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