CHRISTMAS CRACKER LANCASTER TO STAGE HOLIDAY BALLET.Byline: Peggy Hager Staff Writer LANCASTER - Dancing snowflakes snowflakes small patches of gray or white hair acquired after birth. Skin color is unchanged. See also achromotrichia, vitiligo. and fairies will land on the Lancaster Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. stage in a local production of ``The Nutcracker.'' Appearing with the cast of 76 will be two professional dancers from the New York City Ballet New York City Ballet, one of the foremost American dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded by Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine as the Ballet Society in 1946. . Arch Higgins and Kathleen Tracey, dancing as the Cavalier and the Snow Queen, will dance their roles using choreography by famed choreographer George Balanchine Noun 1. George Balanchine - United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983) Balanchine . ``It's excellent. It's even better than last year,'' said Kathleen Burnett, artistic director for the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Ballet Studio and choreographer for the Lancaster ``Nutcracker.'' Show times for the ballet are 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Dec. 17 at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center, 750 W. Lancaster Blvd. Tickets are $25 for adults and $12 for youth age 17 and younger. Tickets may be ordered by calling (661) 723-5950 or visit the Web site: www.lpac.org. The shows sold out last season. Dancing as Clara is 13-year-old Adrie Young. Seventeen-year-old Henry Graham Henry Graham (born 1930) is a British poet. He was part of the Liverpool poetry scene in the 1960s. He is presently one of the poetry editors of the British literary magazine Ambit. will dance the role of the Nutcracker. Graham received a full scholarship to The Rock, a professional ballet school in Philadelphia, where he spent the summer perfecting his dancing skills. He has been a member of the Antelope Valley Ballet Studio since it opened in 1998. The role of Herr Drosselmeyer will be danced by John Gaylord. Burnett has made a few changes from last year's performance, including increasing the number of dancers in the ballet's gingerbread gingerbread In architecture and design, elaborately detailed embellishment, either lavish or superfluous. Though the term is occasionally applied to such highly detailed and decorative styles as the Rococo, it usually refers to the hand-carved and -sawn wood ornamentation of segment. ``I added gingerbread cookies to the Mother Ginger section. I tried for an even dozen, but I ended up with 11.'' Asked if this ballet will become a new Antelope Valley tradition, Burnett said, ``That's what I'm hoping, and each year it will get better.'' The ``Nutcracker'' is based on the book called ``The Nutcracker and the Mouse King'' written by E.T.A. Hoffman. In 1891, choreographer Marius Petipa Marius Ivanovich Petipa (ru. Мариус Иванович Петипа) (born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa on 11 March, 1818 in Marseille, France - died in Gurzuf in the Crimea, commissioned Tchaikovsky to write the music for the ballet. In 1892, the first showing of the ``Nutcracker'' took place at the Mariinsky Theatre of Russia, home of the Kirov Ballet. The current form of the ``Nutcracker'' is from a book revised by Alexander Dumas, the author of ``The Three Musketeers.'' THE FACTS --Show times for the ballet are 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Dec. 17 at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center, 750 W. Lancaster Blvd. Tickets are $25 for adults and $12 for youth age 17 and younger. Tickets may be ordered by calling (661) 723-5950 or visit the Web site: www.lpac.org. CAPTION(S): 2 photos, box Photo: (1) Dancers rehearse their roles in a local production of ``The Nutcracker,'' set for the Lancaster Performing Arts Center. (2) Organizers of the holiday ballet hope to make it an Antelope Valley tradition. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer Box: The Facts (see text) |
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