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Ballet is a performing art, and we feel that participation in performances is an important part of our students' training. We provide two major opportunities for performance experience each year: in November we stage six performances of The Nutcracker and in the Spring, our students can participate in our Student Showcase. |
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Nutcracker
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2011 performances of The Nutcracker will
be held at the Mountain View Center for the
Performing Arts on Thanksgiving weekend. This will be our twenty-first season! November 25 at 1 & 6pm November 26 at 1 & 6pm November 27 at 12:30 & 4pm, 2011. Performance and ticket details can be found at Mountain View CPA website at: http://www.ci.mtnview.ca.us/mvcpa/nov11.html |
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| Parts in The Nutcracker are assigned after auditions, which are held in early September. We have choreographed dances for each level of student at our school, from Pre-Ballet through Ballet VIIA, so that as many of our students as possible can perform. Rehearsals usually begin in October, and we try to hold most of them on Saturdays, although a limited number of our dancers may have rehearsals on week days. This is a wonderful opportunity for our dancers to perform for our community! | |
| Student Showcase |
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| Our 2012 performances of the Student Showcase will be held at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts in March 24 & 25, 2012. | |
| The Student Showcase is our annual school production, in which students perform a dance for each of their classes. It is our policy to use minimal class time for rehearsals, since we are a training school. We incorporate steps that must be learned as a part of the students' curriculum into combinations, which are then joined together to create dances for the performances. In the past we have had nearly 100 percent participation in the Student Showcase by our students in Level I classes and above. With the Pre-Ballet students, we have had about 90 percent participation, since a few of the little ones are shy and afraid to go onto the stage. We rely on parents to help make the decision whether or not their young dancer should perform, since they know the personality of their child best. | |
| Other Performance Opportunities |
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| From time to time we receive a request to provide dancers to perform in local productions or with professional groups, and we honor those requests that help advance our dancers' training. In the past we have provided young dancers for the role of Party Scene children for the Moscow Classical Ballet when they performed The Nutcracker at Flint Center, and we have provided advanced dancers to perform Waltz of the Flowers and Snow Scene for Ballet Pacifica's Nutcracker in San Mateo, and most recently, for Academy en l'Air's Nutcracker in Southern California. Our dancers have also participated in Ballet Allegro's productions in Santa Rosa. | |
| The Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
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| We are fortunate to be able to stage most of our productions at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. This is a new, state-of-the-art theater which seats about 650 patrons, and is equipped with the latest in lighting and audio technology. MVCPA's beautiful backstage facilities provide our dancers with a truly professional experience! | |
| Performance Photograph Links |
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| Photographs
of our Nutcracker 2010 performances are
available for online viewing and purchase by
members of our school. The photographs are on a
password-protected site; students and their
families may pick up the password at our school. Nutcracker 2010 Photographs from the following earlier performances are also available; ask for the passwords at school. Showcase 2010 Nutcracker 2009 Showcase 2009 Nutcracker 2008 Showcase 2008 |
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