Dance with the Best
Enjoy an afternoon High Tea with live music, photos with Nutcracker dancers, prize drawings, and of course an assortment of sandwiches, pastries, fruit, cakes, and wonderful teas. Guests are encouraged to dress up!
Saturday, December 4 from 12:30pm – 1:30pm at the Lincoln Center Ballroom (417 W Magnolia Street, Fort Collins)
Tickets are on sale at: Lctix.com/ccb-nutcracker-tea-2021
Have a fabulous night in with The Nutcracker! While we are not able to film our beautiful cast for a 2020 Nutcracker, we still want to celebrate the season. On Friday, December 11 at 7:00pm mountain time we plan to premiere our 2019 Nutcracker on our YouTube Channel (linked here). The video will be available through the rest of the month of December.
We encourage you to make it a special matinee/evening, and we want to help with some prize packages while also supporting our mission as a nonprofit dance school and ballet company! Schedule any amount donation for our Colorado Gives Day fundraiser to be entered to win! You could win: a gift certificate for a meal to be delivered or picked up, beer from a local brewery, and some surprise goodies, all delivered to your doorstep.
To qualify for a prize package, you must preschedule your Colorado Gives Day donation of any amount by 11:45pm on Monday, December 7 and live in/near the areas listed below. Winners will be notified Wednesday, December 9 and the packages will be delivered Thursday or Friday (12/10 or 12/11).
Thank you to the amazing businesses who donated to support Nutcracker at Home!!
Fort Collins
Loveland
Boulder
Fort Collins/Greeley/Loveland
CCB is planning on both virtual live-stream and limited in-person options for The Nutcracker this year!
Tickets (both in-person and virtual) will go on sale November 10, 2020 at the Lincoln Center box office.
In-person shows will be socially distanced, and can only have 100 in the audience for each show. Tickets will be limited to 8 per purchaser. Pricing is as follows:
For more information and to purchase your tickets, please visit: https://www.lctix.com/ccb-39th-annual-nutcracker
As particularly American embraced tradition, CCB’s treasured production of The Nutcracker includes 94 dancers, 250 beautiful costumes, special effects, fantastic lighting, and sets. It has dazzled old and new audiences in Fort Collins for almost 40 years. Start your holiday off with a special treat that is sure to please audiences of all ages with mystery, battles, and beautiful ballerinas in sparkling tutus.
Please note, this year’s The Nutcracker will not feature the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra.
“The Nutcracker” follows a young girl, Clara, through her adventures on Christmas Eve during a party visited by her mysterious Uncle Drosselmeyer. Life size dolls and toy soldiers create an evening that grows even more fantastical as she falls asleep and witnesses toy soldiers battling mice and rats. A journey through the Land of Snow leads her to a world led by the Sugar Plum Fairy, and filled with dancing candies and sweets performing for her and her soldier prince.
For everyone’s safety, this event will comply with Larimer County’s current event guidelines. All attendees will be required to wear a facial covering and remain socially distanced (6 feet apart) from other parties. Purchasers will be limited to 8 tickets within a single order, and vacant seats will be automatically added around seat reservations to create the appropriate 6 feet distance between purchasing parties. Please stay home if you are feeling symptomatic or have had known exposure to COVID-19. If you are unable to attend, please call the Lincoln Center Box Office at least 24 hours in advance of the performance.
The livestream performances will air live at the time the show begins, and cannot be paused or replayed. If you purchase tickets to the livestream, you may watch this event on any device that can access the internet, including laptop and desktop computers, iPhones, iPads, other SmartDevices, and SmartTVs. Purchasers will receive more information about how to watch and access the livestream upon purchase of a livestream ticket.
Canyon Concert Ballet, Fort Collins’ premier ballet company is holding auditions for our 2020 Nutcracker! We are requiring all auditions to sign up ahead of time for a time slot to ensure social distancing during the auditions.
If you have any questions or need any additional information, please email our amazing Interim Artistic Director, Erica Mugoye, at assistant<at>ccballet.org.
Date:
Saturday, August 29, 2020
Location:
CCB’s main studios at 1031 Conifer St.
Auditions are Saturday, August 29 at our main location, 1031 Conifer Street in Fort Collins. Audition forms are available in the CCB office at 1031 Conifer Street and can be emailed to you (please email us at info<at>ccballet.org if you need a form!). Please make sure you are using the appropriate level form, and bring your completed form with you on audition day.
You are required to sign up for an audition time slot this year. Please sign up here: https://forms.gle/FTBmFMNJBtQLu9V27
Unfortunately, due to the pandemic and needing to keep our cast size smaller this year, we will not be accepting any dancers below Level 3 this year. We are so very sorry and cannot wait to have a full cast next year!!
At this time, the Nutcracker is planned for Friday-Sunday, December 11-13, 2020 at The Lincoln Center, with rehearsals and tech being the week following up to that weekend. The rehearsal on Thursday, December 10 may be attended again this year as a sponsor night. We are not planning on the condensed matinees this year. Please know we may need to be flexible with The Lincoln Center, but at this time we do have these dates!
We are working closely with the Larimer County Health Department to make sure our rehearsals and performances are as safe as possible. We are waiting on final approval at this time, but once we have finalized information for our approved rehearsal plan, we will share it right away. The audition process will be following our current class protocols, linked here.
Four adoptable dogs from Animal House and one very brave adoptable cat from Fort Collins Cat Rescue joined our cast from our 38th Annual The Nutcracker for our first annual Muttcracker photo shoot! You can also visit our Muttcracker behind the scenes/outtakes album on our Facebook page here.
Get your tickets today for The Nutcracker!
Thank you to Kate Edberg and Brooke Forwood for their fabulous photography in the Muttcracker photo shoot!
