March 29, 2024

Festival Ballet Providence's "The Nutcracker" Makes Local Children's Dreams Come True

Young Dancers from East Providence, Riverside, Rumford to Dance on Grand Stage

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Providence, RI (December 2, 2014) – This December, six talented local children will take part in a hugely popular Rhode Island holiday tradition. These young dancers will perform with Festival Ballet Providence (FBP) in the annual production of The Nutcracker, December 19-21 at the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC; www.ppacri.org, 220 Weybosset Street) in Providence, RI. The children from East Providence, Riverside, and Rumford will be dancing the roles of Angel, Mouse, Party Child, Trepak Corps.

After attending an open audition in September, the children earned highly coveted roles in the elaborate professional production, which FBP has performed at PPAC since 1978. The children’s cast is made up of more than one hundred children from nineteen towns across Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

Ranging in ages from 7 to 18, the children cast in The Nutcracker represent a wide range of aspiring young dancers, from children in their first performing experience, to advanced students anticipating a career in professional ballet. They may be young, but make no mistake – they are all business when it comes to dance.

Putting in countless hours every week at their local dance studios (a wide majority of the children train at Festival Ballet Providence School), each child aspires to make dance part of their lives when they grow up. The strenuous technique and beautiful artistry of dance education instills confidence and character in these young children. Plus, the opportunity to perform for a packed house in the lavish setting of PPAC, while rubbing elbows with FBP’s professional company backstage, makes this experience is one that these local children won’t soon forget.

Sophia Ahn, Rumford Allison Dillon, East Providence Amanda Emby, East Providence Maya Grant, Riverside Mary-Alice Trendell, Riverside Kailey Williams, Riverside

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