Check out channel 12 today beginning at 5:30pm as they will be showing footage from today’s nutcracker rehearsal!
Share Staples High School Sophomore and Academy student Jill Rappaport’s experiences as a dancer in the Academy’s Nutcracker productions. Read this inklings article for a first hand account of how magical her experience was and is. Thanks Jill, for sharing your thoughts and your dancing with us for so many years and for sharing them with all of us!
academy teacher david fernandez has been commissioned to choreograph a piece which will premiere this season at the dance theater of harlem. check back for more information, pictures and performance schedules!
click here to read dance magazine’s online article about kings of the dance. joaquin de luz’s piece was choregraphed by academy teacher david fernandez. once again, congratulations david!
excerpt from february 17th’s arts section of the los angeles times about the kings of dance performance:
The evening’s revelation was Joaquin De Luz, the spitfire Spaniard who drew the eye in Wheeldon’s otherwise bland, traction-free quartet that turned Schubert into wallpaper. De Luz stood out not because he was the shortest in the cast but because he was the best. Every inch a mover, De Luz now dances with New York City Ballet where, in stature and moxie, he evokes the young Edward Villella. De Luz wore casual practice clothes when firing off a merciless battery of triple tours en l’air in David Fernandez’s “Five Variations on a Theme.” He nailed every last one.
call the city center to see if they have any tickets left for this weekend’s performances. it will be an evening to remember!
As if our Nutcracker 2008 dress rehearsal wasn’t exciting enough! We were fortunate that the anticipation of the academy’s 27th annual performance created enough buzz to be featured on News 12. Congratulations Nutcracker performers, parents, teachers, volunteers and all those that make the show such a success.
Click above to watch the News 12 segment