Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre
holds OPEN auditions in Cambridge, Duxbury, and Dorchester
for Children’s roles in its 26th annual production of The Nutcracker
Over 500 Children expected to audition in September for the most beloved holiday classic!
WHO: José Mateo Ballet Theatre
WHAT: Children’s Auditions for The Nutcracker. José Mateo Ballet Theatre is looking for 200 children to fill 3 casts in the roles of Party Children, Mice, Soldiers, Angels, Court Attendants, Polichinelles, and Clara.
José Mateo Ballet Theatre’s 26th annual production of The Nutcracker will tour this holiday season to The Duxbury Performing Arts Center (November 29-Dec. 1), The Sanctuary Theatre, Cambridge (December 5-15), and The Strand Theater, Dorchester (December 21-22). All children cast in the production will perform in all three locations.
WANTED: Children and teenagers ages 6*-18
*Previous dance experience is not required for children ages 6-10
WHEN: Saturday, September 7, 2013, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
The Sanctuary Theatre
400 Harvard Street, Cambridge
Sunday, September 8, 2013, 1:00-4:00 pm
The Ellison Center for the Arts
64 St. George St, Duxbury
Saturday, September 14, 2013, 10:00 am-2:00 pm
The Kroc Center
650 Dudley Street, Dorchester
for more information and audition times by age
Audition fee: $25
WHY: José Mateo Ballet Theatre’s Nutcracker is the only local professional production to hold open auditions for young dancers outside its own school.
Cuban-born José Mateo is Founder and Artistic Director of José Mateo Ballet Theatre, one of America’s leading producers of new ballets, and the area’s most innovative school for quality ballet training. Founded in 1986, Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre’s highly acclaimed Company regularly presents Mateo’s innovative vision of classical ballet at its stunning Sanctuary Theatre in its home at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church in Harvard Square,Cambridge. The School offers an innovative model for a high-quality academy with a humanistic approach to ballet training that fosters diversity and inclusion. The organization is the originator of Dance for World Community, a project that builds local and global networks to expand the role of dance in our culture, and the producer of the annual Dance for World Community Festival.
