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The Nutcracker
Fisher Ballet Productions presents the holiday tradition, "The Nutcracker" in conjunction with Foxboro Classical Ballet and students from several localdance schools at the Orpheum in Foxboro MA on December 20th & 21st 2014. This is a student production with a cast of local dancers from several towns and studios in the area. Studios represented are:
Foxboro Classical Ballet
Fisher Academy of Ballet
Dance Express
Elite Dance Center
The Turning Pointe
The Nutcracker is a great first time ballet for children and adults alike. It's a magical story about a girl who receives a Nutcracker for Christmas.
CAST:
GUEST ARTISTS
SUGAR PLUM FAIRY: Ashley Andries
Ashley began dancing at the age of five and received her early ballet training from Eastern Connecticut Ballet. Having attended several summer programs including The Boston Ballet, and The Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, she then spent two years as a competitor in the Youth America Grand Prix. In her High School years, Ashley began training with Festival Ballet Providence and shorty became a professional dancer with the company by the age of 17. She has performed in numerous productions such as Balanchine's Rubies and Donizetti, Anthony Tutor's Continuo, and Leaves are Fading. She has starred as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet choreographed by Yves de Bouteiller, Princess Budhur in 1001 Nights by Eldar Aliev, Cygnets in Swan Lake and as the Snow Queen, Columbine Doll, Marzipan, and Arabian in The Nutcracker just to name a few roles. Other various works have included pieces by Viktor Plotnikov, Avichai Scher, and Mihailo Djuric. Ashley's passion for the art of ballet has not only allowed her to perform, but has also lead her to quite the career as an instructor. She shares her art at several studios in and around Massachusetts, Rhode Island and in San Diego.
CAVALIER: David Aranjo
David Aranjo is a student at Endicott College, studying Nursing and Dance. He is originally from Norton, MA. He trains at Endicott College, and he also has ballet training from Evelyn Cisneros-Legate and Joseph Jefferies of the Boston Ballet studios. He has been in choreographed works under the direction of Nikki Sao-Pedro Welch and Peter DiMuro, and he is delighted to be joining The Nutcracker as Cavalier. He would like to thank his educators, friends and family for their support.
RUSSIAN DANCE SOLOIST: Ksenya Hentisz, Syzokryli Dance Ensemble
Ksenya is a Ukrainian Folk Dancer and member of the Syzokryli dance ensemble, Obriy, and other folk groups. She studies ballet with New York's Steps on Broadway. While in high school Miss Hentisz was a member of the New Jersey Ballet's Junior Company and participated in performances at New Jersey Performing Arts and the Papermill Playhouse, among other venues.
MOTHER GINGER: Teresa Kochis
Teresa Kochis is a performing artist based in New Bedford, MA. She instructs and creates original work with her company Overhead Arts and performs for artistic and commercial events. She has appeared with groups including Happensdance, SENS Productions, Airelise, EarSay, White Wave, Cirque Boom and the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. She was a featured performer in the dance film Melt directed by award-winning choreographer Noemie Lafrance. Her international career has taken her to SESC Pinheiros in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Festival Trans-Amerique in Montreal, Canada, New York City stages including Dance Theater Workshop, The Joyce Soho and Joe's Pub and other national venues.
For a complete cast list, please click here: http://www.fisherballet.com/performance/nutcracker
SYNOPSIS
Act I
The Stahlbaums are giving a Christmas Party. Clara and Fritz, their children, greet the guests. The parents give toys to all the children. Suddenly, a mysterious person arrives. It turns out to be Clara's Uncle Drosselmeyer, the toymaker. He entertains the children with his magical tricks and show everyone his amazing life-size mechanical wind-up dolls.
Drosselmeyer brings a special gift for Clara - a wooden nutcracker. While she is dancing with it, her brother Fritz, teasing her, tries to grab it from her, as they fight over it, they accidentally drop it and break it. Drosselmeyer quickly repairs it.
The party ends, the guests leave, and the Stahlbaums retire for the night. Clara awakens and creeps back into the living room to see her Nutcracker. The clock strikes midnight. Suddenly, the room fills with giant mice who attack Clara. Her Uncle Drosselmeyer appears and scares the mice away. But, it seems that Drosselmeyer is no ordinary toy maker, he is a magician and he begins to cast spells on the room, making the Christmas Tree grow larger, making giant toy soldiers appear and transforming her Nutcracker into a prince. Drosselmeyer disappears and the mice return. The soldiers, led by the valiant Nutcracker, come to Clara's rescue. The Mouse King attacks the Nutcracker, and the Nutcracker seems to be losing, but Clara hits the Mouse King with her shoe, distracting him so that the Nutcracker wins the battle.
The walls melt away, and suddenly Clara and the Nutcracker prince find themselves outside in the snow. The Snow Queen greets them, and when she finds out how Clara saved the prince, she calls for a sleigh to honor them by taking them to the Kingdom of the Sweets. Her magical Snowflake fairies swirl around and dance, bringing snow and Clara and the Nutcracker Prince depart for the Kingdom of Sweets in an enchanted sleigh led by reindeer.
ACT II
Angels light the hall of the Sugar Plum Fairy at the Palace in the Kingdom of the Sweets. The Sugar Plum Fairy has had word of the arrival of guests and calls on the inhabitants of her kingdom to come to the palace and greet the guests. Clara and the Nutcracker Prince arrive in their sleigh. The Sugar Plum Fairy asks them to tell their story. When she hears of their valour, the Sugar Plum Fairy honors Clara by crowning her and seating her on a throne with her Nutcracker. She calls upon her subjects to dance and entertain them. The dances include "chocolate", a Spanish Dance; "coffee", an Arabian Dance; and "tea", a Chinese Dance. Clara is also entertained by "Marzipan"-the dance of the Reed Pipes, Mother Ginger and her children, a Russian dance, and the Waltz of the Flowers. Then, the Sugar Plum Fairy and her cavalier dance a grand pas de deux. As the celebration draws to a close, the sleigh arrives to take Clara and the Prince home. Clara awakens under the Christmas tree with her wooden Nutcracker.
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LocationThe Orpheum Theater
1 School St
Foxboro, MA 02035
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 2 |
| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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