Yes… its Nutcracker season and Yes, when I was in my early 20′s I performed with “Dallas Ballet Company”. I played the role of the Arabian. Wow, that was a long time ago and now Dallas Ballet Company is celebrating their 30 year anniversary of this classic and timeless holiday story.

The Dallas Ballet Company in association with the Dallas Ballet Center, was created in 1989, under the direction of Brent and Judy Klopfenstein, and supported by a Patron’s Guild, to inspire young dancers on a pre-professional level to perform and enjoy the creative art of dance. Dancers, beginning the age of twelve, are encouraged to audition for DBCo for the following levels: Junior Company, Apprentice Trainee, Apprentice and Company.

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is a story written in 1816, by E. T. A. Hoffmann in which young Marie Stahlbaum’s favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls. In 1892, the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov turned Alexandre Dumas père’s adaptation of the story into the ballet The Nutcracker, which became one of Tchaikovsky’s most famous compositions, and perhaps the most popular ballet in the world.

When: December 2 – December 17
Where: Brownlee Auditorium Garland, TX
Price: $25
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