Arthur Fredric, Artistic Director, Director/Choreographer, celebrates his 20th year with the Danbury Music Centre as Artistic Director for the Nutcracker Ballet. He is directing and choreographing with his wife of 27 years, Lisa Denton, for the 16th time. Arthur is also an award-

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DANBURY MUSIC CENTRE

Arthur Fredric Ariel Rudiakov Artistic Director Music Director Director/Choreographer Danbury Symphony Orchestra

Lisa DentonCo-Director/Choreographer

Costume Designer

256 Main Street

Danbury, C

T 06810

PerformancesDecember 9th – 7:30 pmDecember 10th – 2:30 pm & 6:30 pmDecember 11th – 3:00 pm

winning teacher with the National Dance Institute and a former Broadway performer. Arthur is in his 20th year with NDI, the brainchild of the great Jacques d’Amboise and the gold standard in arts education in the United States and around the world. Mr. Fredric performed in the 1980 Broadway revival of West Side Story, touring in the role of Action, as directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins. As a choreographer, he collaborated with jazz dance innovator Ronn Forella for 11 years, helping choreograph shows and movies for Liza Minnelli, Ann Reinking, Fred Ebb, Marc Shaiman, and Bill Murray (Stripes). Arthur’s choreography was featured in Off Broadway shows for Liz Swados (The Red Sneaks at the Perry Street Theater), Carey Perloff (Swadosized at the Bottom Line), and Carol Hall (Ain’t Love Easy at St. Bart’s Playhouse). He was Stunt Coordinator for the horror movie Mad Man Marz. He has taught jazz dance and stunt training/stage combat at Columbia University, Binghamton University, Western Connecticut State University, Manhattanville College, and at the University of Colorado. Arthur and Lisa have been collaborating with UC Boulder Associate Professor Beth Osnes for the past 2 years, contributing to her book, and directing and choreographing a theater piece as part of the Rockefeller Foundation 100 Resilient Cities Initiative. This past summer they worked with 5 casts of Cirque du Soleil, including Michael Jackson ONE and The Beatles LOVE, conducting workshops in acting and dance in Las Vegas. Mr. Fredric owns a video production company which films theater and dance events, and is directing a documentary film about selected poets and a unique poetry conference. He lives in Connecticut with Lisa – the proud parents of three children, Will, Maya, and Dylan. Lisa Denton, Co-Director/Choreographer and Costume Designer, is happy to be celebrating her 20th year working on the costumes and staging for the Danbury Music Centre Nutcracker. Lisa is a former gymnast and pursued ballet with the Westchester Ballet Company and ballet, modern and jazz at Denison University and UCLA. She also assisted Ronn Forella and trained with David Storey in NYC. She was a principal dancer and costume designer for the New Dance Collective. As an actress, Lisa performed in movies (Back to School, Tonight’s the Night), on television (Riptide, A-Team, As the World Turns), in many commercials, and portrayed a ménage of character voices on radio for the Imus in the Morning program on WNBC. As part of the Rockefeller Foundation 100 Resilient Cities Initiative, she assisted Arthur at a United Nations conference in NYC last October, and also taught workshops at the University of Colorado and in Las Vegas for Cirque du Soleil. Lisa is on the Board of Directors of the Heart River Healing Center in New York, is an advisor to the Lightfield Foundation, and is in private practice as an intuitive counselor.

Ariel Rudiakov, Music Director and Conductor, Danbury Symphony OrchestraBorn in Indianapolis, IN and raised in Riverdale, NY, violist and conductor Ariel Rudiakov comes from a musical family going back three generations. He received his early musical training from his parents, Michael and Judith before attending pre-college at Manhattan School of Music. Rudiakov has been Artistic Director of the award-winning Manchester (VT) Music Festival MMF since November 2000 and has been Music Director and conductor of the Danbury (CT) since 2005. He holds viola performance degrees from SUNY Purchase (BM) and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (MM), and was a scholarship student at Yale University’s masters program where he studied privately with Jessie Levine and chamber music with members of the Tokyo String Quartet. In both capacities, Rudiakov enjoys a wide-ranging and diverse musical life, performing solo and chamber music to critical acclaim throughout the USA and abroad with many fine musicians including the Shanghai and Jupiter Quartets, current and former members of the Tokyo, Juilliard and Guarneri quartets, pianists Ruth Laredo, David Deveau, Michael Brown, Andre Michel Schub, Adam Neiman, Vassily Primakov among many others. He has participated in solo and chamber music master classes with violinists Felix Galimir and Raphael Bronstein, violists Michael Tree and Csaba Erdely among other noted musicians.At the podium he has collaborated with violinists Jaime Laredo, cellists Sharon Robinson, Bernard Greenhouse, pianists David Deveau, Christopher O’Reilly and others. Additional resident and guest conducting positions have included the Adelphi Chamber Orchestra, Bergen and Yonkers Philarmonics, Antara Ensemble, Manchester Chamber Orchestra, Harlem Chamber Players and others. He is a former member of the New York Piano Quartet and Equinox String Quartet and was a founding member and president of SONYC (the String Orchestra of New York City). Ariel conducted recording sessions with Dance Theater of Harlem for their World Premiere production of Alexander Glazunov’s ballet Raymonda.Among his recordings are the complete string quartets by Camille Saint-Saens and the piano quintet by Vittorio Giannini (MSR Classics), which Fanfare Magazine described as “utterly superb”. Composers Richard Lane, Philip Lasser and Coleridge Taylor Perkinson have dedicated works to Rudiakov, who is active in commissioning and recording new music. Recent commissions include a piano quintet by Stephen Dankner and Dance of the Marionettes for mixed ensemble by Sato Matsui. Ariel resides in Manchester, VT and Yonkers, NY with his wife, violinist Joana Genova and their two children; Michael Arthur and Liliana Judith. He playes a viola made by Geoffrey Ovington in 2000.

Danbury Music Centre, Inc.256 Main Street, Danbury, CT 06810

PHONE: (203) 748-1716 FAX: (203) 794-1308dmc@danburymusiccentre.org

Board of Directors 2016

Laura Flachbart, PresidentDonna Locke, Vice-President

Joan Howard, SecretaryPeg Heetmann, Treasurer

Mary E Larew, Executive DirectorBarbara Adams Jaeger, Associate Director

Advisory BoardMayor Mark Boughton, Lyn R. Meyers, Wayne J. Shepperd

Lifetime BoardBenjamin DaSilvaMarcia KlebanowEdward A. Wicks

The Mission of the Danbury Music CentreThe mission of the Danbury Music Centre is to sponsor musical organizations, both instrumental and vocal, in which persons of a wide variety of musical backgrounds are encouraged to study and to perform classic and modern compositions to improve their musical ability and to share the joy of music with people of the greater Danbury area. The musical organizations will be comprised of amateur and professional musicians of the greater Danbury area and will be conducted by professional directors. Most performances will be free to the public.

The annual Nutcracker Ballet is produced by the Danbury Music Centre.

Barbara Adams Jaeger - Executive Producer

DANBURY MUSIC CENTRE

Linda PoulinTherese RayfieldDawn RingesCarlos SousaJoyce SternbergSheila SundaramKaren WatkoKevin Webb

Guy DePaulJanice DonnellyJoyce FlanaganRobert KrushinskyNancy LuntKimberly MarcusCarolyn Mueller

Frequently Asked QuestionsWill every dancer be cast?We try, but cannot guarantee it.

How old does a dancer have to be to audition?Children must be 7 years old on the day of the audition.

How about a child who is almost 7 years old, or a younger child with dance training?Children under 7 need verbal permission to audition from Executive Producer, Barbara Adams Jaeger (203-748-1716), PRIOR to 1:00 p.m. on Friday, September 16.

No children under 7 years old may audition without prior approval.

With which group does a dancer audition?The age of the dancer on the day of the audition determines the primary group in which the dancer must audition. After dancers audition with their primary age group, advanced dancers in the 7-9 and 10-12 age groups are welcome to stay for the next older auditions. Dancers audition on only one day, either Friday or Saturday – not both days.

Tips and Suggestions Bring your family calendar to the audition. It

will help you complete the conflict form, if not yet done.

Arrive early to register and warm up. Dancers should wear appropriate dance clothing or

something in which (s)he can move comfortably. Male dancers ages 10-12 and 13 and older will be

auditioned separately from the classical ballet audition, if so desired.

Age 13 and older dancers – there is a pointe portion for dancers with at least 1 full year experience en pointe. Remember your shoes!

Audition InformationAudition form: Fill it out and bring it to the audition.

Audition location: Danbury High School - 43 Clapboard Ridge Road. Doors open 30 minutes before the first audition.

Audition Groups: The age of the dancer on the day of the auditions determines the group and time in which (s)he auditions (no exceptions). Auditions start and end at the published times, and each dancer stays for the entire time slot. Latecomers will not be auditioned – no exceptions. Advanced dancers may remain to also audition with the next age group.

Parents: May stay to watch their child(ren). No videotaping.

Video: The DMC videotapes, for casting purposes only.

Audition Results: Beginning Tuesday, September 27th you will be notified about casting and whether your role(s) rehearses before the Big Meeting. The mandatory Big Meeting is on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 5:00 pm at Danbury High School. Rehearsal schedules will be distributed.

Mandatory: Conflict Forms are due byMonday, September 19th at 3 pm

Snowflake ChorusThe Nutcracker Ballet features an auditioned Snowflake Chorus comprised of children and teens in grades three and higher who have soprano and alto voices. Singers in the Danbury Music Centre’s A Cappella Camp and past Snowflake singers may participate with no auditions. Please contact DMC if you plan to participate. New singers should call the Danbury Music Centre for audition information.

Singer FeeThere is no fee for current members of the Danbury Music Centre at the $100 or higher level.

Accepting your roleDancers are expected to accept the role(s) offered by the Director. With the exception of injuries or other emergency situations, if a dancer does not accept the role, he or she will not be cast in the show or be eligible to audition next year. Dancers with casting limits are encouraged to indicate them on the audition form.

It is suggested that you complete your registration and conflict forms on line! Visit our web site at danburymusiccentre.org. For your convenience, you may fill it out in advance of the audition. When you receive your audition number AT THE AUDITION, write it onto the Conflict Form and submit it to the lobby desk. On this form you are to list all known conflicts (i.e. unavoidable prior commitments you are unable to release that prevent you from attending rehearsals). Your availability for rehearsals will affect how you are cast. If you have not completed the conflict form online, be sure to return it to the Danbury Music Centre by 3pm on Monday, September 19th via email, fax, phone, or stopping by. You will not be cast if you have not returned the Conflict Form.

RehearsalsSaturdays (1-7:30) and Sundays (11-7), starting

October 1st. Your schedule is determined by the role(s) in which you are

cast.

The first detailed rehearsal schedule will be distributed at the mandatory Big Meeting on Saturday, October 1st @5:30 at Danbury High School. That schedule will list times and locations for the first three weeks, after which the next schedule will come out. Most dancers are scheduled for a few hours each weekend.

Dancer Fee The fee for one dancer to participate in the ballet is $150; two dancers living in the same home is $250; three or more dancers living in the same home is $300. The participation fee includes membership in the Danbury Music Centre. Fees are payable upon written acceptance of the role(s). If financial assistance is needed, please contact Barbara Adams Jaeger at (203)748-1716.

Dancers’ Audition - dates and timesDancers need to audition on one day,

either Friday or Saturday – not both days.Dancers remain for their entire time slot

Friday, September 16Ages 7 to 9Registration: 4:30 p.m. Audition: 5:00 p.m.- 6:15 p.m.

Ages 10 to 12Registration: 5:45 p.m. Audition: 6:15 p.m.- 7:30 p.m.

Ages 13 and olderRegistration: 7:00 p.m. Audition: 7:30 p.m.- 9:30 p.m.

Adults: Registration: 9:00pm. Audition: Classically trained adults seeking a ballet role should audition with Ages 13 and older. If ballroom trained, audition with the Director at 9:30 pm.

Saturday, September 17Ages 7 to 9Registration: 12:30 p.m. Audition: 1:00 p.m.- 2:15 p.m.

Ages 10 to 12Registration: 1:45 p.m. Audition: 2:15 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.

Ages 13 and olderRegistration: 3:00 p.m. Audition: 3:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.

Adults: Registration: 5:00pm. Audition: Classically trained adults seeking a ballet role should audition with Ages 13 and older. If ballroom trained, audition with the Director at 5:30 pm

Snowflake ChorusThe Nutcracker Ballet features an auditioned Snowflake Chorus comprised of children and teens in grades three and higher who have soprano and alto voices. Singers in the Danbury Music Centre’s A Cappella Camp and past Snowflake singers may participate with no auditions. Please contact DMC if you plan to participate. New singers should call the Danbury Music Centre for audition information.

Singer FeeThere is no fee for current members of the Danbury Music Centre at the $100 or higher level.

TicketsInformation about purchasing tickets will be mailed to members of the Danbury Music Centre, including all Nutcracker dancers, in mid-October. Tickets are $10, $22, $27, and $32.