José Mateo Ballet Theatre holds OPEN auditions in Roxbury for Children’s roles in its 27th annual production of The Nutcracker
Children’s Auditions for The Nutcracker. José Mateo Ballet Theatre is looking for 200 children to fill 3 casts in the roles of Party Children, Mice, Soldiers, Angels, Court Attendants, Polichinelles, and Clara.
José Mateo Ballet Theatre’s 27th annual production of The Nutcracker will tour this holiday season to The Duxbury Performing Arts Center (November 28-30), The Sanctuary Theatre, Cambridge (December 4-14), and The Strand Theater, Dorchester (December 20-21). All children cast in the production will perform in all three locations.
They are audition hildren and teenagers ages 6-18 (Previous dance experience is not required for children ages 6-10). The auditions will be held Saturday, September 13, 2014, 10:00 am-2:00 pm at Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley Street, Roxbury. For more details call (617) 354-7467 or www.ballettheatre.org.
Cuban-born José Mateo is Founder and Artistic Director of José Mateo Ballet Theatre, one of America’s leading producers of new ballets, and the area’s most innovative school for quality ballet training. Founded in 1986, Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre’s highly acclaimed Company regularly presents Mateo’s innovative vision of classical ballet at its stunning Sanctuary Theatre in its home at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church in Harvard Square, Cambridge. The School offers an innovative model for a high-quality academy with a humanistic approach to ballet training that fosters diversity and inclusion. The organization is the originator of Dance for World Community, a project that builds local and global networks to expand the role of dance in our culture, and the producer of the annual Dance for World Community Festival.
