Northern Ballet Performance Company has chosen two dancers to play Clara in Tchaikovsky's popular Christmastime ballet.
THUNDER BAY – Ava Paterson-French and Audrey Harrison had no idea their dance lives were about to change.
“I like dancing,” she said. “I like The Nutcracker a lot, so I thought it would be fun just to dance in ballet and to do it.” Created in 1892, the two-act ballet, based on E.T.A. Hoffman’s 1816 short story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, opens on Christmas Eve in Nuremberg, Germany. At a family gathering, Clara is given a nutcracker by her godfather, Drosselmeyer.
Alisia Cameron, owner of Connections Dance School and one of the driving forces behind the collaborative Northern Ballet Performance Company that’s putting on The Nutcracker, said the show is a chance to bring all of Thunder Bay’s dance schools, plus several from the region, together to present a family-friendly show, one of the most beloved of the holiday season.
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