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Recovery Acres Jim Calverley info@recoveryacres.org 403-245-1196
Moscow Ballet Sally Michael Keyes sally@nutcracker.com 800-320-1733 x21
– Recovery Acres Society and Moscow Ballet announce open auditions for Romeo and Juliet in Calgary, Edmonton, Regina and Saskatchewan. Only twelve applicants, in each city, will be accepted and perform in Moscow Ballet's Romeo and Juliet in November. Auditions are for pre-professional ballet students ages twelve and must have pointe experience. Nataliya Miroshynk, a Russian trained soloist with Moscow Ballet, will conduct the auditions. The twelve applicants chosen will rehearse and perform with the acclaimed, Russian cast, a once-in–a-lifetime opportunity for most. Applicants must dress in dance attire and be prepared to dance en pointe. |
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Auditions will be held in, Aug 15 @10am, at Applause Dance Academy, 1363 Rose St.; in , Aug 18 @10am, at White Birch Ballet, 144 – 2 Ave S, Suite 5; and in , Aug 24 @5pm at St. Vladimir's Cultural Centre, 404 Meredith Rd. NE. Calgary auditions are hosted by Ballet Classique Methusela. Edmonton audition dates have yet to be announced.
Moscow Ballet's Audition Director arrives in person to conduct the audition and rehearsals. She is an expertly trained ballerina having graduated in 1988 from the Kiev Academic Choreographic School in Ukraine. Nataliya enjoyed a tremendous amount of post-graduate experience, touring throughout the world during her time with the Odessa State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater. Nataliya is in the US and Canada this summer teaching week-long summer Intensives to aspiring, pre-professional ballet students. Her repertoire includes Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, La Bayadere, Don Quixote and, of course, The Great Russian Nutcracker.
Recovery Acres is proud to present the premiere performances of the epic story ballet with bold new choreography, hand painted sets and lavish costumes. Moscow Ballet's Ballet Master Andre Litvinov, now in his fifth season with Moscow Ballet, created the choreography. Set to Tchaikovsky's score, this production features rising star principal dancers Alexandra Elagina and Anatolie Ustimov. The award-winning couple, and a corps of forty impeccably trained Russian dancers, performed to critical acclaim in 2010 on the Moscow Ballet Eastern Tour; "Thrilling, expansive and elegant" NY Times; "Aristocratic finesse" Cleveland Plain Dealer; "Breathtaking, awe-inspiring" Charleston Today; "Spellbinding, fabulous," San Francisco Stark Insider; and DC's ionarts.com, "Astounding." 2011 marks Moscow Ballet's 19th annual North American tour to 60+ cities from coast to coast. Tickets are now on sale for Moscow Ballet's Romeo and Juliet and Great Russian Nutcracker in a city near you go to www.nutcracker.com.
Moscow Ballet is known for its annual, touring Great Russian Nutcracker and full-length productions of the classic story-ballets; Swan Lake, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and others. Created by award-winning Juilliard alumnus, composer/conductor and theatrical producer, Akiva Talmi, the organization evolved out of Talmi's all-star Russian "Glasnost Festival Tour" (1986-92). Moscow Ballet made its debut in 1993 with the Great Russian Nutcracker which was directed and choreographed by soloist Stanislav Vlasov of the famous Russian Bolshoi Theatre. In 1994, Moscow Ballet invited the Moscow State Theatre of Natalia Sats, and the theatre's full orchestra, to expand the company to an 88-artist tour which was billed as the "19th Century Classical Nutcracker." In 2003, Moscow Ballet announced the appointment of Anatoly Emelianov, winner of the Diagelev award, and Vladimir Troshchenko, director of Odessa State Ballet and a pivotal figure in the ballet world, as co-artistic directors. Moscow Ballet continues to feature top graduates of Perm, Vaganova, Moscow State Academic Choreographic and Kiev schools in its productions.
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