It is Christmas Eve…
Herr Drosselmeier, the magical toy maker, attends a party at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Stahlbaum and his Godchild, Clara.
He brings gifts for all the children and, after teasing Clara, finally presents her with a wonderful Nutcracker doll.
In the midst of the party, her handsome Nutcracker is broken, but Drosselmeier mends it with a ribbon from Clara’s hair, and the party resumes.
When the guests have departed, Drosselmeier transports Clara into a world of fantasy where time is suspended.
With the aid of the toy soldiers, Clara and the Nutcracker battle the Mouse King and his army of mice. Together they slay the Mouse King and the Nutcracker is transformed into a handsome prince.
The Prince leads Clara on a journey through the Land of the Snow to the Kingdom of Sweets where, upon their arrival, they are greeted by the lovely Waltzing Flowers and reigning Sugar Plum Fairy and Cavalier.
After the Prince tells the story of how he and Clara defeated the Mouse King, they are entertained with dancers from many lands.
Drosselmeier re-appears and returns a sleepy Clara back to her home.
It was all just a dream…or was it?
Christopher Zimmerman, Conductor
The Fairfax Ballet Andrea Cook, Artistic Director
Claire Kretzschmar – Sugar Plum Fairy Russell Janzen – Cavalier
Clare Yee – Clara Nick Elizondo – Nutcracker Prince
Aleksey Kudrin – Herr Drosselmeier
Marcela Figueroa – Mrs. Stahlbaum Nima Namvar – Dr. Stahlbaum
Phillip Smith-Cobb – Mouse King, Snow King, Coffee Fabio Tello Munoz – Soldier Doll, Marzipan
Serena Edwards – Friend, Snowflake, Peppermint Stick Hazel Lindquist – Fritz, Snowflake, Dew Drop Heather Qian – Mechanical Doll, Snow, Marzipan Meredith Rainhart – Snow Queen, Coffee Chloe Schulsinger – Friend, Snowflake, Chocolate Lauren Wienke – Snowflake, Tea
Ava Urben – Dancing Mother, Angelique, Mother Ginger Emily Petry – Maid - with -
Dancers from The Fairfax Ballet Company and the Russell School of Ballet: Alexander Anzaluda, Catherine Baylyff, Jamila Bazaz, Alena Bazaz, Emma Blanchard, Blythe Brookbank, Naya Case, Anya Cooper, Ariana Crowder, Julia Delassus, Natalie DeSesso, Falynn Devlin, Victor Gant, Elina Gyawali, Madeline Halim, Margaret Harris, Emma Hayakawa, Christine Helffrich, Natasha Heyres, Sara Kelati, Jude Kelati, Victoria Kornilova, Sophia Liu, Ava Mirzaie, Gwyneth Moon, Caroline Musci, Lauren Musci, Melody Namvar, Charlotte Palagi, Patricia Pobst, Clara Rainhart, Piper Rowley, Antonella Salcedo, Gaia Salcedo, Wendy Simpson, Cecilia Swift, Esme Vu, Chelsea Xue, Layla Zeroual
Christmas Party House Guests: Valerie Calvano, Christianna Carreno, Catherine Heyres, Wehrner Heyres, Cathleen Karlsson, Forrest Kneisel, Ben Kneisel, Rachael Pobst, Josh Qian, Terence Yee
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Composer: born May 7, 1840, Kamsko-Votinsk, Viatka province, Russia; died November 6, 1893, St. Petersburg
Work composed: Feb 1891 – March 23, 1892. Commissioned by the Imperial Theatres of Imperial Russia, based on Alexandre Dumas père’s L’Histoire d’un Casse Noisette, a version of E.T.A. Hoffman’s story, Nussknacker und Mausekönig (The Nutcracker and Mouse-King).
World premiere: December 17, 1892, on a double bill with Tchaikovsky’s one-act opera Iolanthe. Ricardo Drigo led the orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.
Who among us has not attended at least one holiday performance of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker? For many Americans, The Nutcracker is a regular and beloved holiday tradition, whether we have a child in the production or not.
Interestingly, The Nutcracker, an ostensibly “Russian” ballet, is in fact an international creation. E.T.A. Hoffman’s macabre German tale, as retold by a Frenchman, Alexandre Dumas père, was made into a Russian “ballet fairy tale,” which has become an American phenomenon.
After the success of The Sleeping Beauty, Tchaikovsky initially refused the commission offered him by Ivan Alexandrovitch Vsevolozhsky, director of the Imperial Theatre, to create another ballet with choreographer Marius Petipa. Neither Tchaikovsky nor Petipa cared for Dumas’ story; Petipa because there were no central roles for a prima ballerina and Tchaikovsky because he “liked the plot … very little” and also noted, “I feel a complete impossibility to reproduce musically the ‘Konfitürenburg’ (The Candy Kingdom).” Eventually Tchaikovsky agreed to The Nutcracker when Vsevolozhsky also commissioned a one-act opera to be presented on the same concert. (Tchaikovsky already had a story in mind for the opera, titled Iolanthe, about a blind princess who falls in love and regains her sight).
Tchaikovsky began work on both Iolanthe and The Nutcracker simultaneously, but made much faster progress with the one-act, which interested him, as opposed to The Nutcracker, which he wrote only as a contractual obligation. When he finished the fairy-tale ballet, Tchaikovsky observed, “And now it is finished, [it] is all ugliness.” Over time, however, Tchaikovsky’s opinion mellowed. “Strange that when I was composing the ballet I kept thinking that it wasn’t very good but that I would show them [the Imperial Theaters] what I can do when I
began the opera. And now it seems that the ballet is good and the opera not so good.”
Act I opens on a lavish Christmas Eve celebration. The adults decorate the tree; when the clock strikes nine, a group of children, led by Clara and Fritz, march round the room to a chorus of brasses. Children and grownups dance together, whereupon Clara’s godfather, Herr Drosselmeyer, arrives loaded down with toys: a mechanical doll and a toy soldier, as well as a huge Nutcracker, also dressed as a soldier. Clara and Fritz fight over the Nutcracker, which Fritz accidentally breaks when he tries to crack an enormous nut. Clara picks up the broken Nutcracker, cradles it in her arms, and sings a lullaby, while the boys tease her. Meanwhile, Herr Drosselmeyer performs a creaky dance to an asymmetrical melody in the winds.
After everyone has gone to bed (sleepy oboe solo), Clara comes down to see her Nutcracker, which is glowing. Midnight strikes, and a horde of mice skitter to chattering wind music. The dolls spring to life, and gingerbread soldiers left over from tea begin to march to and fro. Clara tries to run away, but is frozen to the spot, marveling at the Christmas tree, which magically grows to an enormous height. Dolls and soldiers fight the mice in vain, until the Nutcracker engages the King of the Mice in a duel. At a crucial moment, Clara throws her slipper at the King of the Mice, killing him. The Nutcracker is transformed into a handsome Prince, accompanied by a dreamy swirl of strings and harp arpeggios, and he asks Clara to join him on a journey to the Kingdom of Sweets. In the second scene, set in a snowy forest under a starry sky, gnomes guide Clara and the Prince through the woods. Snowflakes fall and the Snow King and Queen join their subjects in a waltz featuring flutes and a wordless chorus.
Act II begins with Clara and the Nutcracker Prince arriving in the Kingdom of Sweets; the rippling arpeggios and flowing melody in the strings suggest the gentle rocking of the ship that brings them to shore. Once they arrive, the citizens of the Kingdom put on a festival in their honor; a triumphal theme in brasses and strings alternates with colorful waltzes and fanfares. After the festival, a parade of characters performs. The Spanish Chocolates dance to the click of castanets and a virtuoso trumpet solo, while the Arabian Coffee creates an air of mystery with its brooding clarinets and exotic scales. The Chinese Teacups twirl to the piping of a piccolo and the Russian Dance (Trepak) leaps across the stage with breathtaking speed and agility. The toy flutes flutter about like butterflies, followed by Mother Gigone (Mother Goose) and her flock of bonbons. The horn chorus and clarinet solo from the Waltz of the Flowers, not to mention the main waltz theme in the strings, are instantly recognizable. Next, the Sugarplum Fairy and Prince dance their signature pas de deux, featuring a luxuriant melody for strings and harp. The Prince then performs a quirky little solo, barely 30 seconds long, followed by the famous dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, whose music, with its distinctive celeste part, has become a kind of musical shorthand for the entire ballet. The Nutcracker concludes with a celebratory waltz.
Claire Kretzschmar is a soloist dancer with New York City Ballet (NYCB) and a native of Winston-Salem, NC. As a child, she danced at Academy of Dance Arts, Wake Forest Community Ballet, and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts before continuing on to the School of American Ballet for her final year of high school. She joined NYCB as a corps member in 2011 and was promoted to soloist in 2018. With NYCB, Claire has performed featured roles in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Alexei Ratmansky, Justin Peck, and Kyle Abraham. In 2018, she received a bachelor’s degree in Communications from Fordham University, and she currently leads dance lectures, teaches ballet, and cohosts “The Rosin Box” segment of NYCB’s podcast. Claire choreographs when the opportunities arise, and her most notable works include Rachmaninoff Suite and Rhapsodie for the New York Choreographic Institute. She is the recipient of the Janice Levin and Martin E. Segal Awards for rising artists, and she loves to spend her free time with family and friends.
Mr. Janzen was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and began his dance training at the age of six at The Rock School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Janzen attended summer sessions in 2004 and 2005 at the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet, and enrolled as a full-time student in the winter of 2005. In October 2007, Mr. Janzen became an apprentice with NYCB, and in June 2008, he joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet. He was promoted to soloist in October 2014 and to principal in February 2017.
Clare is a senior at Chantilly High School. She has been dancing at the Russell School of Ballet for 12 years and is currently in her fifth year with the Fairfax Ballet Company. One of her favorite dance memories is learning the choreography from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video every October. In her free time, Clare likes to read fantasy and mystery novels, go on walks, and listen to music. Next year, she hopes to study art history, history, or English in college. Clare would like to thank her family for all their support and her friends for creating such a wonderful and loving community.
Claire Kretzschmar (Sugar Plum Fairy)
Clare Yee (Clara)
Nick Elizondo is a Junior at George Mason University pursuing a BFA in Dance. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas he didn’t start his dance training until he was a freshman in high school. Nick trained as a boxer and wrestler where he only started dancing to better his fighting skills. Shortly after starting dance, he fell in love and decided this was his path to pursue with integrity, passion, and discipline. He now focuses on Contemporary, Modern, Ballet, and Improvisational techniques to develop his artistry and creativity as a mover and performer. Nick’s dance training began at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Downtown Dallas alongside Dance industry in Plano, Texas. At George Mason, Nick has learned modern, ballet, and contemporary techniques from professors including Susan Shields, Karen Reedy, Shaun Boyle D’Arcy, Roger Jeffery, Christopher D’Amboise, and Ethan Brown. Nick was awarded the Kevin Campbell Scholarship through GMU in 2022 and a full scholarship to attend BodyTraffic summer intensive in Los Angeles, California. In LA he learned choreography from Tina Finkleman Berket, and Guzman Rosado, and other world-renowned choreography from choreographers including Camille A. Brown rep from Maleek Washington, Imre Van Opstel choreography, Alvin Ailley rep from Chalvar Montero, and The TL Collective rep from the artistic director herself Micaela Taylor. His performance opportunities for the near future include, Shaun Boyle D’Arcy’s newest work, Doug Varone’s “Double Octets” where he will perform with the company in February of 2023, and the opportunity to experience two more residencies in the beginning of 2023 including Robert Battles “Awakening” and Rafael Bonachela’s “Variation 10.”
Philip Smith-Cobbs danced with Atlanta Ballet for five seasons. At the age of eight, Smith-Cobbs began training with Classical Ballet Theatre in Herndon. He also attended summer intensives at Richmond Ballet, Miami City Ballet, and School of American Ballet. After graduating from high school, he continued his training at Atlanta Ballet’s Centre for Dance Education. In 2010 Smith-Cobbs became a member of Atlanta Ballet’s prestigious Fellowship Ensemble. With the Ensemble, he performed in George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments and Who Cares, and was also featured in John Mahler’s Cinderella, dancing the roles of the Prince and Stepsister, and in Bruce Wells’s Pinocchio, in the role of Geppetto. Dancing with Atlanta Ballet’s main company, Philip performed several solo roles in John McFall’s Atlanta Ballet’s Nutcracker, including Drosselmeyer’s Nephew, Trepak, and Chinese. His other performance opportunities with Atlanta Ballet have included roles in David Bintley’s Carmina Burana, Val Caniparoli’ Lambarena, Jean- Christophe Maillot’s Romèo et Juliette, Michael Pink’s Dracula, and Christopher Wheeldon’s Rush. In addition to performing, Smith-Cobbs has had the chance to work with renowned choreographer Twyla Tharp, Wayne McGregor, James Kudelka, and Helen Pickett. Carmina Burana, Val Caniparoli’s Lambarena, Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Romèo et Juliette, Michael Pink’s Dracula, and Christopher Wheeldon’s Rush. In addition to performing, Smith-Cobbs has had the chance to work with renowned choreographers Twyla Tharp, Wayne McGregor, James Kudelka, and Helen Pickett.
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Fabio Tello Muñoz b. 2001 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico and is currently studying for a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance at George Mason University. He is a graduate of the Idyllwild Arts Academy’s Dance Department. Art has no bounds when it comes to Fabio as he performs with his voice and body through music and dance. Fabio believes that art such as dance communicates on a level which words couldn’t achieve. Fabio loves his petit and grand allegro jumps and uniformity in Ballet, but you can see that his favorite part is in the intimate relationship formed between the two partners. Chemistry is not only formed in between the two characters but expressed through the true performers. Ballet is the plant to Contemporary’s animal in Fabio’s dance world. With ballet’s foundation and stages of life comes its natural predecessor. To him, contemporary is freedom. Freedom of movement, freedom from social bounds, and freedom from arbitrary standards. This freedom unleashes his killer instinct to really show the emotional and sensitive person inside. A well-rounded performer must come with a well-rounded repertoire such as the Lead Male in the ballet Paquita, Solar in La Bayadere, Oberon in Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Prince in Swan Lake, for the Nutcracker he has done roles as chinese, russian, mouse king, and others. He also works with some of the leading artists namely Susan Shields, Stephanie Gilliand, Christopher R D’amboise, among others. He has studied with teachers such as Jonathan Sharp, Christopher R D’amboise, Susan Shields, Shaun Boyle, Patrick Franz, and others.
Aleksey Kudrin was born in Perm, Russia and trained at the Perm State Choreographic Academy. He danced with the Siktivkar Theater Opera and Ballet and the Grigorovich Ballet of Russia, under the legendary Yuri Grigorovich, before coming to the United States. After coming to the U.S., Kudrin danced with the Sarasota Ballet of Florida, Columbia Classical Ballet in South Carolina, and Manassas Ballet Theater, appearing in many original works as well as many classics. He performs regularly as a guest artist with several area companies and schools. He has been teaching in the Northern Virginia area since 2005.
Born in Santiago, Chile, Marcela Figueroa moved to Caracas, Venezuela at a young age, beginning her ballet studies at the The Gustavo Franklin School of Ballet. Graduating with honors in 1986, she joined the National Ballet of Caracas, under Vicente Nebrada, where she became a principal dancer working with ballet masters Vladimir Issaev, Zane Wilson, Madame Nina Novak, and others, and performing leading roles in Swan Lake, Coppelia, Firebird, Romeo and Juliet, Paquita, Apollo, Serenade, Concerto Barocco, and more. Recognized internationally as a strong and expressive dancer, Figueroa received a national award for “Best Interpretation of the Year” in the title role of George Sand, choreographed by Vicente Nebrada. She also danced as principal with the Ballet Nacional de Venezuela, working with Irina Ivanova and Maestro Roumen Rachev. In 1992, Figueroa received her diploma as ballet teacher, choreographer and
coach at the Ballet Ruso Irina Ivanova, and moved to the U.S. Figueroa has worked with Cynthia Gregory in Paquita, Jose Manuel Carreno as her partner in Giselle, and was in the original cast of Stanton Welch’s Orange. She also worked with Judy Fugate and Medhi Bahiri as Directors of Dance Galaxy
Emily Petry was born in Germany and raised throughout the US, training in the Cecchetti method and American Ballet styles. She holds a BFA in Dance from The Florida State University, with a focus in performance and technology in addition to a business minor. During her younger years she trained at the Russell School of Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, Dance Station, and in the summers with ABT, Atlanta Ballet, Cecchetti International. After college she moved to New York City and had the privilege to perform with Third Rail Projects, Gerard & Kelly (Bessie Award 2014), Mei Yamanaka, Mari Meade Dance Collective, Here.Now.Dance, Kista Tucker Dance Insights, Aimee Plauche. She also had the pleasure to perform with the Tallahassee Ballet and the Fairfax Ballet. After touring Europe with the Blue Lake International Ballet Ensemble from 2014-2016, she toured South Australia in 2017 with Artists by Any Other Name, co-founding a youth outreach program and performance series. She is also a current member of Gwemily Dance Theater whose work has been shown internationally.
Meredith Rainhart is a senior at Oakton High School. This will be her seventh year dancing with the Russell School of ballet and her sixth year as a member of the Fairfax Ballet Company, though she has been dancing for almost 15 years. Since joining the company in 7th grade, she has loved performing in the Nutcracker as many roles, including Clara, Dew Drop Fairy, Snow, Fritz, Marzipan, and this year, Coffee and Snow Queen. Meredith has also performed in various original works, story ballets, and dance events, including the annual VADC Gala and National Dance Day in Fairfax City. In addition to her ballet training, she trains in modern and jazz. She attended the Paul Taylor Company Summer Intensive in 2021, following a performance of Paul Taylor’s Airs several months before. Aside from dancing, Meredith is passionate about biological sciences and visual arts. She hopes to receive a degree in biological or medical lab sciences following high school, as well as continuing to dance and create art throughout college.
Heather Qian is a senior at Oakton High School. She has been dancing at the Russell School of Ballet for 13 years and in the Fairfax Ballet Company for 6 years. Additionally, she attended Joffrey Ballet’s summer intensive in 2019. She has performed as Clara, Dew Drop Fairy, Spanish Chocolate, and Snow in annual Nutcracker performances and in various original works and story ballets with the Fairfax Ballet. When she is not dancing, she enjoys reading, playing the piano, and spending time with friends and family. In the future, Heather seeks to pursue a higher education in biology and is considering medicine and mathematics as well.
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Named Music Director of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra in 2009, Christopher Zimmerman celebrates his fourteenth season with the FSO. Under his leadership, the FSO has received consistent praise from the media. Former Washington Post arts critic, Anne Midgette, wrote: “the Bernstein was a note-perfect end to a very refreshing evening that spoke well for the programming vision of Zimmerman.” Washington Post reporter, Stephen Brookes, commented: “Zimmerman has been injecting adrenalin into this determined ensemble… (and has) made the Fairfax players a serious force to be reckoned with.”
Christopher Zimmerman graduated from Yale with a B.A. in Music and received his Master’s from the University of Michigan. He also studied with Seiji Ozawa and Gunther Schuller at Tanglewood, and at the Pierre Monteux School in Maine with Charles Bruck. Zimmerman served as an apprentice to Andrew Davis and the Toronto Symphony and in Prague, as assistant conductor to Vaclav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Mia Lee
Amelia Bailey Sharon Like Tim Kidder Sarah Berger Yuna Kim Shu-Tina Yao Savannah Kari
VIOLIN 2
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