Professionals recall their own baby mice days.Byline: The Register-Guard Sooner or later, every serious young ballet dancer (at least in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ) performs in "The Nutcracker." From the road, several Eugene Ballet The Eugene Ballet Company (EBC) is a ballet company based in Eugene, Oregon. It is a resident company of the Hult Center for the Performing Arts. Under the Artistic Direction of Toni Pimble and Technical Director Jim Bradford, this 20-member ensemble performs a blend Company members took time out from dancing in "The Nutcracker" to e-mail brief comments about their early experiences of this holiday favorite. Juan Carlos Juan Car·los Born 1938. King of Spain (since 1975) who acceded to the throne on the death of Francisco Franco and helped restore parliamentary democracy. Noun 1. Amy-Cordero danced in Boston Ballet's production of "The Nutcracker" from age 8 to 17, as Fritz. This year he is the Nutcracker. Dubraskha Arrivillaga remembers dancing as a snowflake with the National Ballet Company Noun 1. ballet company - a company that produces ballets troupe, company - organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical); "the traveling company all stayed at the same hotel" of Venezuela. "The choreographer used fake snow, which made the floor very slippery." Gillmer Duran, who didn't start dancing until he was 21, sees each year's "Nutcracker" tour as a new experience: different locations, different versions and different roles. "Every single time is an adventure." Neysa Fulsome's grandmother took her to her first "Nutcracker" when she was 5. "I slept through the grand pas de deux pas de deux (French; “step for two”) Dance for two performers. A characteristic part of classical ballet, it includes an adagio, or slow dance, by the ballerina and her partner; solo variations by the male dancer and then the ballerina; and a coda, or of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Cavalier, but I did tell her I was going to be a Bon Bon. When I was 9 I did. That was 16 years ago, and I have never missed a performance." Suzanne Haag played Clara in Hartford Ballet's production when she was 10. "I was also excited because the company traveled to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and I missed a week of school!" Amy Marialke started out as a party child and a mouse when she was 12. "I remember looking up to the older girls performing solos ... my friend and I would spend hours in the studio; before we knew it we were the older girls being watched in awe." Jennifer Martin also started out when she was 12, dancing "fairly small" roles and wishing she could be a Dew Drop Fairy, Sugar Plum Fairy or the Snow Queen. This year, as a Eugene Ballet principal dancer, she plays the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Mechanical Doll and does the Spanish dance of Don Juan Don Juan (dŏn wän, j  `ən, Span. dōn hwän), legendary profligate. and his Senorita.
Phyllis Rothwell, also a principal dancer, did not perform in "The Nutcracker" until she was 16, but she remembers her parents taking her to see the "lavish" Joffrey Ballet production at Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. "I wanted so badly to be part of that experience. To this day my favorite thing about `The Nutcracker' is the way it captures the children's imagination. ``Sometimes after the show I can catch a glimpse Verb 1. catch a glimpse - see something for a brief time catch sight, get a look see - perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight; "You have to be a good observer to see all the details"; "Can you see the bird in that tree?"; "He is blind--he of kids dancing in the lobby, and that makes all the work worthwhile." |
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