If you’re passionate about ballet, no matter what your favorites are, you probably can’t resist that much-loved holiday staple, “The Nutcracker”. Your executive coach was lucky enough to see it twice this year. I saw the Joffrey Ballet’s version in Los Angeles and the Moscow Classical Ballet’s performance in Palm Springs.
Both presentations were magical!
Ella with Moscow principal dancer, Artem Kohroshilov
There was the most amazing swirl of exhilarating energy that flew from the brilliant young performers and wrapped itself wondrously around the unsuspecting audience of all ages. I saw it happen with two of my companions. The first was my 12-year-old surfer-skateboarder-grandson. The other was my 6- foot-2, 39-year-old police officer-son. My other companion, my granddaughter, age seven, and a student of ballet for the past three years, was an easy sell. All four of us were wide-eyed, enchanted, almost teary over the pas de deux, and sad to see the performance end.
We need a touch of passion and magic in our lives every day. “The Nutcracker” richly provides that via the music of Tchaikovsky; the tricks of Uncle Drosselmeyer; the dolls of several nations which come alive; the falling snow; the exacting classical solos, duets, leaps and spins; the Nutcracker which turns into a handsome prince (of course); the principal dancers who effortlessly play 3-4 parts; the kids from the local dance schools who are transformed for a night into cast members of a world class ballet company. My granddaughter Ella got to be one of those kids in the Moscow Classical Ballet’s “The Nutcracker”.
Finding sources of passion and magic in one’s life is not very hard. The source is in revisiting the things which one used to do before the age of 10. I studied ballet between the ages of 4 and 21. As an adult, I found passion and magic in dance.
Let me help you to find the passion and magic in your life.
Ella on stage in The Nutcracker
Carol with grandson, Reed, and granddaughter, Ella