Very Young Dancers
December 2, 2018 10:46 AM Subscribe
One reason City Ballet’s 1954 production of “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” remains enchanting has to do with the delightful children who appear in it: 126 students, ages 8 to 12, from the City Ballet-affiliated School of American Ballet are participating this year. They all carry their share of responsibility - but here's what it's like to be the Nutcracker Prince, and Marie in New York City Ballet's Nutcracker.
They move beautifully, and will move even more beautifully as adults. I hope it doesn't cost them too much. Dancers can wind up with far more rational and level-headed attitudes toward their bodies and their sexuality than most of us, or with chronic anxiety about them, or, more often than seems possible, with both.
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I still have my copy of A Very Young Dancer. The photos from the NYT piece look almost exactly the same as those in the book, probably due to the practice uniforms. It was a little chilling, but not unpleasant.
posted by monopas at 11:50 PM on December 2, 2018