Snohomish County’s premiere ballet company, Olympic Ballet Theatre, will perform its “Nutcracker” ballet on Saturday and Sunday in Everett, as well as Dec. 18, 19 and 20 in Edmonds.
A highlight of this year’s production is a guest appearance by Andrei Vassiliev in the role of the Nutcracker prince, said Mara Vinson and Oleg Gorboulev, the Edmonds-based ballet company’s artistic directors.
“Andrei is a former Prix de Lausanne winner and our former colleague from Pacific Northwest Ballet,” Vinson said. “He’s danced all over the world, including in his native Russia, with the Leipzig Ballet and with the English National Ballet. We’re excited to feature him in our production.”
Olympic Ballet Theatre’s full-length traditional production of “The Nutcracker,” set to the music of Tchaikovsky, brings to the stage not only the story of Clara and her prince, but a Christmas tree that grows, a booming cannon and a larger-than-life Mother Ginger and her bouncing Buffoons.
Olympic Ballet Theatre is a cornerstone of the Snohomish County performing arts scene. The ballet company offers a talented corps of dancers and a production with new staging and backdrops that premiered last year.
Because it is performed in intimate venues, the production offers good viewing for audience members of all ages, Vinson said.
If you go
Olympic Ballet Theatre presents the Christmas classic “The Nutcracker” at 2 and 7 p.m. Dec. 12, and 1 and 5 p.m. Dec. 13 at the Everett Performing Arts Center, 2710 Wetmore Ave.; and 7 p.m. Dec. 18, 2 and 7 p.m. Dec. 19 and 5 p.m. Dec. 20 at Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N. Tickets are available at olympicballet.com/tickets. Prices are $37.50 general, $32.50 for seniors and students, and $25 for children.
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