Yeager Employment Law Presents

The Nutcracker

13-14 December 2019

Newspaper Feature

Dance schools collaborate on a new kind of Nutcracker

Tracy-Lea Bloch talks passionately about her latest project in a soft South African accent which matches her most graceful job.

As artistic director and founder of Lower Lonsdale dance academy Ballet Bloch Canada, she has taken a beloved holiday tradition, The Nutcracker, and turned it slightly on its ear.

“What I’m trying to do is tap in to what people enjoy,” explains Bloch. “Some love the ballet, some like a bit more of a beat.”

PERFORMANCES

The Nutcracker

Yeager Employment Law presents The Nutcracker. A night of magical fun, beloved holiday tradition celebrated through the beauty of dance and music. Ballet Bloch Canada’s Nutcracker is filled with surprises!

Audiences will meet the delightful Clara and Nutcracker, be terrified by the infamous Rat Queen and her gang of Rats, travel through the forest of Snowflakes and be charmed by the Sugarplum Fairy in the Kingdom of Sweets.

This North Shore production of The Nutcracker celebrates a coming together of different dance groups and genre that support each other in developing arts and culture in our world. Dancers from all over Vancouver will share the stage to mark this extraordinary event. Students from Ballet Bloch Canada, Dance with Christie, North Shore Academy of Dance, and Pacific Dance Arts come together bringing classical ballet, contemporary, hip-hop and street jazz to the stage. Professional artists: Kyle Toy, Konstantin Keshyshev, Giovanni Rizzo and Tyler Carver, display their talents effortlessly as: Drosselmeyer, Nutcracker Prince, Arabian and Sugarplum’s Cavalier.

Ballet Bloch’s production of The Nutcracker is bound to delight and surprise all audiences. An exciting winter-tale for the whole family.