Ballet Theatre Company Announces Nutcracker Production for 2008
Brilliant Choreography and Staging by Brett Raphael with Guest Artists from Connecticut Ballet – Expanded Battle Scene
Continuing what has become an annual
holiday tradition for many families in the Greater Hartford community,
Ballet Theatre Company is pleased to announce its seventh Nutcracker
season. Six performances will be offered from December 18 – 21. This
year there will be four afternoon performances. All performances are at
the Hoffman Auditorium at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, CT.
Brett Raphael, Guest Artistic
Director, returns to set his brilliant production, which premiered at
the Hoffman Auditorium in 2006, with the Ballet Theatre Company
dancers. Guest artists are from Connecticut Ballet in Stamford,CT and
seventy children from Ballet Theatre Academy and many dance schools in
the area will be performing, including a group of fourth grade students
from the Kinsella Arts magnet school in Hartford. The theater lobby
will be a collection point for the Salvation Army’s Toys for Tots
program. Attendees are invited to bring a new, unwrapped toy to support
this worthwhile endeavor.
Under Mr. Raphael’s direction, such
renowned dancers as Cynthia Gregory, Lynne Charles, Ann Reinking, Irina
Dvorovenko and Maxim Belotserkovsky, Stephanie Saland, Johan Renvall,
Yoko Ichino and Katherine Healy have appeared with Connecticut Ballet.
Under his leadership, the Dance Exposure Project brings assembly
programs to over 15,000 youngsters and satellite dance instruction to
over 450 elementary, middle and high school students annually.
