Auditions
Friday, September 28th
5:00-6:00pm Primary– Ballet 2
6:00-7:00pm Ballet 3-5, Boys, Irish
Costume and Rehearsal Fee
$80 for 1st child /$35 additional(includes Nutcracker T-shirt)
Late applications will not be accepted!
Rehearsals begin the week of October 1st
Performances
School Outreach Seminars and Performances– December 6 and 7 at 10:00am at Musselman High School . Tickets $6 for students and teachers free. Contact Denna Smith for seat availability and complete program information 304-229-3209.
Public Performances-Saturday, December 8th at 5:00pm and Sunday, December 9th at 2:00pm, Tickets $15 and up adults and $10 and up students. Tickets will go on sale November 1st .
Guest Artist
Matthew Helms began his training in Colorado on full scholarship at the Academy of Classical Ballet, where he danced principal roles in The Nutcracker, Giselle and Le Corsaire. He then studied on full scholarship with Mark and Sandra Carlson and German Zamuel at the International Ballet School where he performed soloist roles in The Nutcracker and Peter Pan. Matthew competed in the 2008 Youth America Grand Prix and the 2008 Denver Ballet Guild Competition where he received a full scholarship to The Ballet West Academy in Salt Lake City, Utah. Matthew has been a guest artist with ballet companies in Utah, California, and Idaho, and for the last three years has performed leading roles in ballets such as The Nutcracker, Paquita, The Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, and Le Corsaire. He choreographed a contemporary ballet that was premiered in the Ballet West Academy Spring show in 2009. Matthew was promoted to the Ballet West Pre-Professional Trainee Program in 2010 and has trained with artists from American Ballet Theatre, Ballet West, Joffrey Ballet, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, Kirov Ballet and David Taylor Dance Theater. Matthew has studied martial arts since age three, has been acting since age four, and has appeared in movies, commercials and TV shows as an actor or a fight choreographer. This is Matthew’s seventh season with Boulder Ballet.
Guest Artists sponsored in part by the Marion Lewis Foundation