Can you believe we are only 45 days away from our 2014 Nutcracker performance?!
Over October, we finalized our cast list, got everyone into
slippers, tights and leotards, and really started to see our dance numbers
take shape.
Here’s a special look at some of our Saturday November 1st
rehearsal.
We started Saturday with Clara.
Clara (and her understudy) have been dancing with the
Nutcracker for a few weeks now, and this past Saturday they got to start
rehearsals with skirts! We saw lots of focus on inclinations.
Here you can see Isabel Beatriz Cortina Alegre, our resident
Ballet Master since 2009 with our Clara.
Arm positions are so important. If one incline is off from
the rest, it can drag the audience’s eye away from the point of focus. But if
our inclinations are just right, we can create a pleasing line for the eye to
follow and direct our audience’s focus anywhere we like!
After Clara rehearses, our Candies and Mice take over!
Like all learning, our rehearsals consist of lots of repetition
and Saturday was no different. Ms. Isabel is not afraid to make our dancers
repeat and repeat and repeat some more until she is pleased! The hard work is definitely showing, our dancers are getting a bit better every week.
Ms. Isabel had our dancers individually perform a section of
what is usually a group number so she could evaluate. At first, our dancers
simply waited on the sidelines for their turn to perform.
But when Ms. Isabel told them this was an excellent opportunity
to learn from one another… well as you can see they started dancing in the wings!
Rehearsals can be hard, yet we still see our dancers trying
to be the best they can be. Watching them get a little bit better with each
passing week is really amazing.
November is going to
be busy, but we’re ready!
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