Mohawk Valley Ballet

Missing The Nutcracker? Here is our MVPA SugarPlum Fairy reading the story. Perfect for Elementary school classrooms and little ones at home. We can't wait to see you in 2021 at The Stanley!!! Here's the link https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sfnrilO27Cc&feature=youtu.be

Nutcracker didn't happen this year, but we thank you for sharing your memories with us. We can't wait for the next time we can be back on stage, but please know that just because the events of 2020 have kept us from our Nutcracker tradition, the dancing hasn't stopped! Stay tuned for some glimpses of our latest projects!

It was during Arabian last year that the fire alarm went off in the theater and dancers were waved offstage while our audience evacuated. It was both a frightening and disappointing situation having the show halted by what eventually was recognized as a mechanical error. Through the fear and chaos, I was amazed at our volunteers who calmed terrified children, and teenage mentors who snuggled little ones freezing in their costumes and ballet shoes on the loading dock, and at the audience who came back after it was clear we were out of danger. We picked up where we left off and continued the show....shaken but determined. This whole year has been much like that show. Our lives are interrupted, but when the time is right, the show will go on.

We have focused a lot this week on Nutcracker participants. But every year thousands of children attend our school shows and fill the audience with their enthusiastic applause, oohs and ahhs, and loud bravos!! Did you first experience the wonder of the theater on a Nutcracker field trip?

Every year Nutcracker begins with auditions in August! Enjoy these throwbacks to auditions from the 90's!

Spending time in the studio, at the theater, and on the stage together, creates some of the most lasting and meaningful friendships. We learn to celebrate each other's successes, cry over and comfort one another in disappointment, and laugh over everything else. Ballet friends are the best friends. Share a photo or tag your ballet buddies.