Manhattan Youth Ballet and Manhattan Movement & Arts Center announce Auditions for The Knickerbocker Suite

Manhattan Youth Ballet and Manhattan Movement & Arts Center announce Auditions for The Knickerbocker Suite on Sunday, September 22. Registration begins at 12pm with audition classes for ages 7-9 at 12:30pm, ages 10-12 at 1:15pm, ages 13-15 at 2pm and ages 16 and up at 3pm, at the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, 248 West 60th Street, NYC (between Amsterdam and West End Avenues) in the Lincoln Center area. The audition application and further details are available at www.manhattanyouthballet.org. Audition fee is $30, payable by cash, check or credit card. If selected, there is no participation fee, only a costume fee of $60.

The Knickerbocker Suite will be performed from December 13-15, 2013 and December 20-22, 2013 at the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center Theater. The Knickerbocker Suite features New York City landmarks, such as The Statue of Liberty, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and NY sports teams, weaved into the time-honored holiday tale of The Nutcracker. Classic Nutcracker scenes like “The Land of the Snow” are transformed into a snowy frenzy of shoppers dancing in and out of stores like Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s for last minute gifts. Perhaps one of the more well-known scenes, “Mother Ginger and her Polichinelles,” will be played by the Statue of Liberty and dancing immigrants who just arrived from Ellis Island.