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Centennial Youth Ballet presents The Mini-Nutcracker
Friday, November 30, 2018, 7:00 p.m. Saturday, December 1, 2018, 2:00 p.m. Saturday, December 1, 2018, 7:00 p.m. Sunday, December 2, 2018, 1 p.m. The Harpeth Hall School, Frances Bond Davis Auditorium 3801 Hobbs Road (use the Estes Road entrance for the theater) Friday & Saturday: $12 for adults / $8 for children 12 and under Sunday: $15 for adults and children. Ticket price includes cookie reception. We may be able to release additional tickets on Monday, November 26. If you would like to be notified of additional ticket availability, please sign up for the WAITLIST.
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ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE: Centennial Youth Ballet's The Mini-Nutcracker brings to life a young girl's Christmas dream. Swirling snowflakes, waltzing flowers, dancing bon bons and giant mice battling miniature soldiers will transport the audience to a world of entrancing fantasy. Centennial Youth Ballet will present The Mini-Nutcracker in The Harpeth Hall School's Davis Auditorium the first weekend in December. Sponsored by Friends of Metro Dance and the Dance Division of the Metropolitan Board of Parks and Recreation, this production has become one of Nashville's most popular holiday traditions for families with young children. Designed to introduce children to ballet as performance art, The Mini-Nutcracker is an abbreviated, narrated version of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite Ballet. Centennial Youth Ballet's accomplished dancers perform with poise, precision and polish. Lavish sets and beautiful costumes enhance the classical movement and spectacular staging. The Mini-Nutcracker offers Nashville families the opportunity to begin the holiday season in exhilarating style.
This year we are excited to welcome guest artist Fredrick Davis as our Sugar Plum Cavalier. Mr. Davis grew up dancing in the Parks and Recreation Department in Chattanooga, TN in collaboration with Ballet Tennessee before he was awarded a scholarship to further his dance studies. He later went on to become a dancer with Dance Theatre of Harlem and his life story was featured in the PBS documentary From the Streets to the Stage: The Journey of Fredrick Davis. We are delighted to welcome him back to Tennessee to perform with Nashville’s Parks and Recreation Department.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE: Centennial Youth Ballet's The Mini-Nutcracker brings to life a young girl's Christmas dream. Swirling snowflakes, waltzing flowers, dancing bon bons and giant mice battling miniature soldiers will transport the audience to a world of entrancing fantasy. Centennial Youth Ballet will present The Mini-Nutcracker in The Harpeth Hall School's Davis Auditorium the first weekend in December. Sponsored by Friends of Metro Dance and the Dance Division of the Metropolitan Board of Parks and Recreation, this production has become one of Nashville's most popular holiday traditions for families with young children. Designed to introduce children to ballet as performance art, The Mini-Nutcracker is an abbreviated, narrated version of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite Ballet. Centennial Youth Ballet's accomplished dancers perform with poise, precision and polish. Lavish sets and beautiful costumes enhance the classical movement and spectacular staging. The Mini-Nutcracker offers Nashville families the opportunity to begin the holiday season in exhilarating style.
This year we are excited to welcome guest artist Fredrick Davis as our Sugar Plum Cavalier. Mr. Davis grew up dancing in the Parks and Recreation Department in Chattanooga, TN in collaboration with Ballet Tennessee before he was awarded a scholarship to further his dance studies. He later went on to become a dancer with Dance Theatre of Harlem and his life story was featured in the PBS documentary From the Streets to the Stage: The Journey of Fredrick Davis. We are delighted to welcome him back to Tennessee to perform with Nashville’s Parks and Recreation Department.
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Centennial Youth Ballet Spring Performance
(program to be announced) Friday, April 26, 2019, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 27, 2019, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 28, 2019, 2:00 p.m. Z. Alexander Looby Theater 2301 Rosa L. Parks Blvd Adults: $12 / Children 12 & under: $8 Public ticket sales begin Monday, April 1. |
Centennial Youth Ballet Summer Intensive / 12-18 yrs
June 3-14, 2019 Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. $400 per person Centennial Performing Arts Studios Nashville, TN Join us for an immersive dance experience for intermediate and advanced teen dancers with a ballet background. Dancers train in a wide range of styles and approaches that reflect the professional dance world today including: body work and conditioning to develop a deeper sense of body awareness and long-lasting and healthy movement practices; rigorous and invigorating classical ballet technique, pointe work, character and repertory; workshops in injury prevention, ballet history, music, and choreography; modern technique, and theater dance or West African. The intensive culminates in a showing for family and friends. Students must have taken classical ballet for the previous three years. Email us for more information |