Dances Patrelle announces young dancer auditions for The Yorkville Nutcracker on Saturday, September 28 and Sunday, September 29, 2024 at Ballet Academy East, 1651 Third Avenue, Third Floor, NYC. For more information, visit https://www.dancespatrelle.org/.

All Auditions to be held at Ballet Academy East Studios

1651 Third Ave, 3rd Floor, NYC

Dancers should arrive in appropriate dance attire. (For soloist roles, dancers should be prepared to dance en pointe).

Auditions for Dancers Age 10-12

Saturday, September 28 – 5PM (Registration starts 4:30PM)

Parent Meeting 5PM

Auditions for Dancers Age 6-7

Sunday, September 29 – 3PM (Registration starts 2:30PM)

Parent Meeting 3PM

Audition for Ages 12+ (Corp and Soloist roles, dancers performing en pointe)

Sunday, September 29 – 3PM (Registration 2:30PM)

Dancers at this level can join Dances Patrelle’s MASTERWORKS for Spring Workshops

Auditions for Dancers Age 8-9

Sunday, September 29 – 4:30PM (Registration starts 4PM)

Parent Meeting 4:30P

Production Fee: $325, with a discount for siblings. A limited number of need-based scholarships are available. Dancers are encouraged to pre-register online for auditions by age group at https://www.dancespatrelle.org/.

A comprehensive rehearsal schedule will be available at the audition. All students must be currently enrolled in a ballet school.

For questions, email nutcracker@dancespatrelle.org

*Please do not call Ballet Academy East or Dances Patrelle Offices*

Dances Patrelle will present The Yorkville Nutcracker from December 19-22, 2024 at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 524 W 59th St., NYC.

Francis Patrelle’s Holiday Classic, “The Yorkville Nutcracker,” returns for its 28th Season! Enjoy a magical tour of 1895 New York City with Dances Patrelle. Your journey begins with a Christmas Eve party at Gracie Mansion attended by dignitaries from around the world – including our new police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt. Thrill as you behold a battle with life-sized mice! Then go for a bracing midnight skate on the ponds of Central Park. Finally, take a sleigh-ride to the Grand Conservatory of the Bronx Botanical Gardens in time for a beautiful sunrise buffet of sweets, hosted by the Sugar-Plum Fairy.

Dances Patrelle (dP) is a dynamic professional ballet company celebrating its 35th season! dP presents two annual seasons in New York – the timeless holiday tradition, The Yorkville Nutcracker, and a spring repertory season featuring world premieres and classic Patrelle favorites. Mr. Patrelle’s body of work includes over 50 original ballets choreographed for Dances Patrelle, and spans an incredibly wide range of styles, from his beloved American Songbook collection to such contemporary classics as Madame X, Macbeth and Rhapsody in Blue. Heralded by Lynn Garafola in Dance Magazine as a choreographer with “a personal vision…classical because it is rooted in metaphor and symbolic language [and] populist because of its legibility and broad cultural resonance.” Patrelle has also cultivated a long-time collaboration with composer Patrick Soluri, commissioning four original scores including 2009’s Murder at the Masque for dP’s 20th Anniversary. Known for attracting the great talent of each generation, Dances Patrelle is pleased to count ballet stars such as Marcelo Gomes, Jenifer Ringer, Donald Williams, Lourdes Lopez, and Cynthia Gregory among its dancers. For 26 seasons, Dances Patrelle has tapped into the human experience, connecting intimately with the audience and continuously reinventing dramatic dance. In 2013, the company was named the resident ballet company of the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center.

“In Francis Patrelle’s ballets, the characters come alive. His choreography is full of heart and soul.”

– Cynthia Gregory, Prima Ballerina

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