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New York City Ballet Holds Auditions for 50 Local Children and Teens to Fill Roles in Balanchine’s Coppélia and Moza
New York City Ballet Children’s Ballet Master Dena Abergel will audition area children to dance with New York City Ballet during its Saratoga season, July 16 – 20. Auditions are for approximately 50 children and teen roles in Balanchine’s Coppélia, which first premiered at SPAC, and Mozartiana.
Casting for Coppélia includes roles for twenty-four girls who are between four feet, two inches and four feet, eleven inches tall. Understudies will also be cast. Mozartiana includes roles for four girls and two understudies ages 9-12 with advanced ballet technique who are between four feet, six inches and four feet, ten inches tall. Applicants for both roles should have at least two years of ballet training.
In addition, there will be roles in Coppélia for six girls, ages 14-18 years old, who are between five feet, two inches and five feet, six inches, and six boys ages 14-18 years old, who are five feet, five inches or taller. Applicants should have at least two years of dance training.
Pre-audition videos are highly encouraged and should be submitted by February 10 to cbm.nycb@gmail.com. Videos should be less than five minutes long and include one movement across the floor combination with jumps, and one adagio combination.
The children’s cast for Coppélia will rehearse starting on June 30 at the National Museum of Dance School of the Arts.Mozartiana rehearsals will begin on July 7. Teenagers in Coppelia will have two rehearsals that will begin on July 14, in advance of the company’s stage rehearsal.
Audition check-in on March 10 will commence at 12:15 PM at the National Museum of Dance School of the Arts Studios, 99 South Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY. Visit spac.org for more details.