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Charleston - Gaillard Auditorium - Charleston Ballet 
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- Sottile Theatre - Mt. Pleasant Performing Arts Company will present their 7th annual performance of the magical holiday tradition of The Nutcracker at the
Sottile Theatre in Charleston, SC.
Guest dancer Jennifer Norman will dance the part of Sugar Plum and will join the
local dance members of the company.
Performances will be on Saturday, Dec. 3 at 7pm and again on Sunday, Dec. 4th at
3pm. Advance tickets are $15 pp and $18 at the door.
Group rates are available. To purchase
tickets, please call 843-971-7880. Visit our website at www.mpspa.com
Columbia - Township Auditorium - Carolina Ballet
The Carolina Ballet with Columbia Music Festival Orchestra presents The Nutcracker at The Township Auditorium in Columbia, SC.
Ticket information: 803-771-6303 www.CarolinaBallet.Net
Columbia - Koger Center for the Arts - Columbia City Ballet invites audiences to
be captivated by the timeless, magical dream-world of its most joyous holiday gift, William Starrett's enchanting Nutcracker at the Koger Center. The city's most bel oved holiday family tradition, Columbia City Ballet's Nutcracker has it all – a cast
of more than 100, glorious sets and costumes, magical special effects, beautiful music and exceptional dancing by Columbia's most talented professional dancers. "My goal is to create a
Nutcracker experience that guarantees to put you in the holiday spirit," says Starrett, executive and artistic director, who is celebrating his 20th
anniversary directing Columbia City Ballet. "My job as the artistic director is to surpass the standards already set by the previous seasons and keep the production fresh, magical and with
enough new surprises that audiences look forward the returning to the Koger Center to see our Nutcracker."
This season marks the 28th consecutive year that Columbia City Ballet has
presented Nutcracker for Columbia audiences. The sets were commissioned by the Ballet in 1990 from Adirondack Stu dios in New York (which has also done sets for
The Lion King and Radio City Music Hall), and they have the distinction of being the only fully-staged repeating production designed specifically for the Koger Center. Audiences
can expect a few surprises in the production this year, the company's 28th annual staging of Nutcracker. Starrett has added a new opening scene and a new twist to the story of
Clara, the little girl who receives a magical nutcracker on Christmas Eve. The role of Clara will be danced by 13-year-old Nicole
Carrion, at student at Columbia Conservatory of Dance who is dancing the role for the sixth season in a row, and Soloist Kathryn Smoak in the dream sequences.
"Clara was my favorite role growing up," says Smoak, who danced the role for Columbia City Ballet in 1995. "I'm very excited to have the opportunity to re-invent the
role as a more mature dancer. It also helps to add a new twist to Nutcracker, to keep it fresh year after year." Columbia City Ballet will give eight performances of
Nutcracker at the Koger Center.
Columbia City Ballet Ticket information and sales: 803-251-2222 www
.ColumbiaCityBallet.com
 Columbia - The Columbia Classical Ballet will give six
performances of "The Nutcracker." Performance days and times are Thursday, Dec. at 10 a.m., Friday, Dec. 2 at 10 a.m. and 7:30 pm.; Saturday, Dec. 3 at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p
.m.; and Sunday, Dec. 4 at 3 p.m. Koger Center for the Arts, Assembly and Greene streets, Columbia, SC. For tickets call (803) 251-2222 or go to www.capitoltickets.com . Admission prices $5 - $32.
 Greenville - McAlister Auditorium - The Greenville Ballet will perform
Andrew Kuharsky's production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker on Saturday, December 18, at 3:00 p.m. at Furman University's McAlister Auditorium in Greenville, South Carolina.
Guest dancers from South America will join local talent for the 26th year of Kuharsky's production.
The Sugar Plum Fairy will be danced by Ezlimar Dortolina, a native of Caracas, Venezuela, and the Cavalier will be danced by her husband Jose Edwin Gonzalez, a
native of Cali, Columbia. They have danced with the State Street Ballet in Santa Barbara, the Tulsa Ballet,  Neos Dance Theatre in Ohio, and Ballet Contemporaneo
de Caracas. Greenville native Peter Base, who has performed with Nashville Ballet and Florida's Galmont Ballet will perform the Soldier Doll and the Chinese and Russian solos.
A sold-out educational outreach performance will be presented on Thursday, December 16 at 10:30 a.m. Almost 2,000
students from throughout the area will attend. Tickets for Saturday are $21, $23, and $25 and are available at the Timmons Arena Box Office at Furman University, at local Ticketmaster
outlets, at the door, or through Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000. Local Ticketmaster Outlets include Woodruff Rd. Publix, McAlister Square Publix, Wade Hampton Publix in Greenville,
Publix in Anderson, Publix in Spartanburg, Publix in Easley, FYE in Asheville
For further information call (864) 233-5321 or visit http://www.greenvilleballet.com/nutcracker.html
Greenville - The Peace Center - Carolina Ballet Theatre - (864)297-1635 - www.carolinaballet.org
North Charleston - The Moscow Ballet
The Moscow Ballet presents The Great Russian Nutcracker. For additional performance details and information please visit www.nutcracker.com
Spartanburg - Twichell Auditorium, Converse College - Ballet Spartanburg
presents The Nutcracker at the Twichell Auditorium For ticket information call 864-596-9725 or 864-583-0339. You can find Ballet Spartanburg on the web at www.balletspartanburg.com or by phone at 864-583-0339
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