On the Calendar: Going Nutz

December is going to be a busy month for me. I’m going to dance in three different productions this holiday season:

First, I will be making a cameo appearance with the University Nutcracker as Rat King on Nov 30th, Dec. 1st, and Dec. 2nd. No matter what other (more refined) parts I performed while at school here, I was also always a rat. So it’s kind of a dream of mine to be promoted to King Rat. I have a wham-bam pas de deux with teh Nutcracker, which includes lots of jumping, sword fighting, and some wrestling moves. Very fun.

The following weekend, I am making a guest appearance in a holiday show in Nashville, Indiana. This is a holiday-themed show, and I am doing a self-choreographed Steadfast Tin Soldier pas de deux with a good friend of mine.

And then, the weekend of the 21st, it looks like I will be performing with the Indianapolis School of Ballet in their Nutcracker. Again, the parts are character roles (my favorite!) I will be doing the Nutcracker and soldier dolls.

So, the moral of the story: learn to dance big and take chances, and when all of the boys have been snatched up in various guesting gigs, you can step forward to take their place…