Photo: Park City performers dance in The Nutcracker
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The classic The Nutcracker is back for another season of performances at the Capitol Theater December 4 – 26. The New York Times has called the Utah performance, “The best Nutcracker in the United States.”
The Nutcracker. Photo: Ballet West/Beau Pearson
Two ballerinas, members of Ballet West’s Park City Academy, will be dancing in this year’s shows. 13-year-old Skye Rolley has been cast in the role of a servant and 11-year-old Kate Stroud is a soldier. They’ll both be in the same cast performing December 17 – 21. Tickets may be purchased here.
Park City Ballet West Academy has recently moved to a new location and added new faces with industry-wide name recognition to both its administrative and teaching staff.
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Park City stalwart, Beano Solomon told TownLift, “I think families will particularly enjoy the Nutcracker this year as they can finally get out as a family and do something special, enjoy their tradition, celebrate beauty together. Our culture would be nothing without the arts. They are enriching, uplifting and beautiful, mind-expanding, thrilling. For one, I would not have moved here if Salt Lake didn’t have a ballet and a symphony/opera. I am taking two children this week.”
I've lived in Park City for 30 years but right off the starting line, my journalism professors expressed plaudits after class for writing more so about the small-town sports in the surrounding mountains than the urban updates they assigned. Therefore, I’m on par punning and penning Parkites' pastimes. Turning high and early through my career, I’ve worked communications for The Olympics, the Paralympics and the Special Olympics. Additionally, there's been National Geographic, Patagonia, NCAA, USA Nordic and the United States Library of Congress, so I guess you could say this ain't my first rodeo.
