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Tony awardwinner broadways an american in paris wheeldon choreographs this work to the music of richard rodgers iconic musicala dance that includes a love duet that is one of the finest in contemporary ballet. This is the program for the the kintz mejia academy of ballet stage production of the nutcracker 2019 at george mason high school theatre, page. San antonios performing arts community was left reeling on wednesday with the announcement on social media of the immediate departure of. Paul mejia, former principal dancer of new york city ballet, directs and choreographs arts san antonio s presentation of tchaikovskys the nutcracker. Nearly every year im able to take our daughter to see our local production of this ballet, and while i always love that, and nothing really compares to seeing it live, truth be told, its pretty hard to beat the british royal ballet s nutcracker productions. The nutcracker ballet san antonio at tobin center for. Live concert performance of mejia ballet international.
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