Nutcracker Auditions with The Asheville Ballet

Name: Nutcracker Auditions with The Asheville Ballet
Start: 2024-09-21T14:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-21T18:15:00-04:00
Location: The Asheville Ballet

Schedule

Sat Sep 21 2024 at 02:30 pm to 06:15 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The Asheville Ballet | Asheville, NC

Saturday, September 21, the Asheville Ballet, North Carolina’s oldest non-profit ballet company, will hold Nutcracker Auditions at the studio at 4 Weaverville Hwy, Asheville, NC 28804:

Audition schedule is outlined below:

2:30pm ages 4 – First Grade

2:45pm Second – Fourth Grade

3:00pm Fifth – Seventh Grade

3:30pm Everyone Eighth Grade – senior adult (including all intermediate/advanced teens and adults and all professionals).
Auditions will begin with a Ballet technique class (if you are a beginner, and unsure, email us to ask advice). If you are younger than 8th Grade, but wish to audition en pointe, please send us an email to inquire. We may ask that you attend the class and audition with the older dancers.

4:30-6:15pm Everyone Eighth Grade to senior adult will stay for auditions for various Modern, Contemporary, and Ballet roles and for adult roles. Auditions for Pointe roles will likely occur at the very end of the audition.

Parts are available for all dancers from all regional studios for ages 4 to senior adults.

Please fill out the audition form in advance of the audition: https://forms.gle/8u35mQdZmVzpfyePA (Even if you have to leave measurement info blank and send us a follow-up email once you know it, you should submit your audition form as early as you can, to facilitate the info going to every artistic team member in advance.)

Audition fee is $10, payable via cash or check to The Asheville Ballet.

Please note that the auditions will be filmed so that material may be reviewed by the artistic team.

All performers must be taking at least two technique classes per week, at least one of which should be Ballet, at any studio (dancers ages 4-9 may take only one class per week; for dancers ages 7 -9, it should be Ballet).

Casting will likely be announced around Wednesday, September 25th, and rehearsals begin as early as Friday, September 27th, for some roles.

All performers must be taking at least two technique classes per week, at any studio, at least one of which should be Ballet (dancers ages 4-9 may take a single weekly class; for dancers age 7-9, it should be Ballet). If you’d like to enroll for classes at Asheville Academy of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, visit our Training page.

Please plan to arrive a bit early to find parking. Please wash your hands and remove your street shoes before going into the studio. Parents of 4 to 8-year-olds may wait in the lobby if your child would feel more comfortable that way, and parents of 4 to 6-year-olds may come into the studio if your little one looks like they need you. The audition is closed to any other observers, but family members may come inside to use the restrooms.

For information email us at [email protected].

The Nutcracker will be held at Diana Wortham Theatre at the Wortham Center December 12th - 15th (Thursday 9:30am school show, Friday and Saturday evening shows, Saturday and Sunday matinees).

Regularly scheduled rehearsals begin as early as September 27 and run Fridays between 4:00-9:00pm and/or Saturdays between 2:30-8:30pm (plan on possibly both), and will include some Sunday afternoon rehearsals for certain parts (eg. Waltz of the Flowers). There will be three mandatory Sunday group rehearsals (11/24, 12/1, 12/8), plus mandatory 4:00-8:00pm tech week Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, December 9th, 10th, and 11th. Youngest dancers are usually dismissed by 7pm and do not have long rehearsals until two weeks before showtime. The Nutcracker contract is available via email for your reference (it contains rehearsal dates with which to mark your calendars, as well as health and safety guidelines and shared values).

We look forward to seeing you all at the audition, and please don’t forget to fill out an audition form! https://forms.gle/8u35mQdZmVzpfyePA