Moscow Ballet announces open auditions Thursday, Oct. 23 at 5 p.m. at Performers Edge Dance Co. (133 West Main St., Northville, MI) and Friday, October 24 at 5 p.m. at MDM Dance Project (6060 Collection Dr., Shelby Twp., MI).
Moscow Ballet’s “
Dance with Us” Audition Director
Olga Aru will be present to select 120 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 Detroit Fox Theatre on Sunday, December 21 at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Moscow Ballet is pleased to work with MDM Dance Project and Performers Edge Dance Co. 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.
Dancers can register online at
www.nutcracker.com/youth-auditions/sign-up-to-audition . For additional information, call
248-349-1111 or email
frontdesk@performersedgedanceco.com. There is a casting fee of $50.
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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Andrea Redman Dance Academy aka MDM Dance Project gives the highest quality dance training in a positive and encouraging atmosphere. All students receive the same quality training whether they are dancing for fun, or wish to become a professional dancer.
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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