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.
Audition Information
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
- Ballet Level 7 & 8: 12:00pm – 12:30pm
- Ballet Level 6: 12:45pm – 1:15pm
- Ballet Level 5: 1:30pm – 2:00pm
- Ballet Level 4: 2:15pm – 2:45pm OR 3:00pm – 3:30pm
- Ballet Level 3: 3:45pm – 4:30pm OR 4:45pm – 5:30pm
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!!
Performance and Rehearsal Information
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!
COVID-19 Information
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.
Julia Erickson, originally from Seattle, received her training on scholarship with Pacific Northwest Ballet School and San Francisco Ballet School. She has toured to Europe and Asia with PNB and danced with Texas Ballet Theater for two seasons prior to joining Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre in 2001. A longtime Principal Dancer with the company (she was promoted to Soloist in 2004 and to Principal in 2009) she recently left her position at PBT in November of this year to explore other opportunities. Among her principal roles, Julia has performed Swan Lake (Odette/Odile), La Bayadère (Nikiya), The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora, Lilac Fairy, Carabosse), La Sylphide (the Sylph), Le Corsaire (Gulnare), Diana and Acteon, and Balanchine’s Theme and Variations, Western Symphony (4th Movement), Who Cares?, Prodigal Son, Sylvia Pas de Deux, Agon, and Serenade. She has also danced the roles of Lady Capulet in Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette, Myrtha in Giselle, “An Episode in his Past” in Antony Tudor’s Jardin Aux Lilas (Lilac Garden), the Wife in Jerome Robbins’ The Concert, Anita in his West Side Story Suite, and featured roles in Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena, Hyppolita), The Four Temperaments (2nd Theme) and Divertimento Number 15. Her contemporary repertory includes Paul Taylor’s Company B; Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room, Nine Sinatra Songs, and Octet; Robbins’ In The Night and Fancy Free; the Sylvie Guillem role in William Forsythe’s In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, and Jiří Kylián’s Petite Mort and Sinfonietta. In 2018 she was invited to perform at the Suzhou Ballet Gala in Suzhou, China. Julia has also been a member of Santa Monica, CA-based Barak Ballet since 2017 and has toured with them to the Joyce Theater in New York. She is the recipient of the 2014 BRAZZY Award for outstanding female dancer and is an entrepreneur and writer.
