These are probably the last focus-less photos of dance I'll put on here for the next few months: I've finally found a focus for my nutcracker piece:

The City Center Ballet is performing the nutcracker completely by themselves for the first time ever, this year. In previous years the major roles have been filled by professional dancers of the Albany-Berkshire Ballet Company- this year, these roles will be filled by the upper level dancers of the Lebanon-based City Center Ballet. Many of these dancers have been with City Center since the age of five, and all are under the age of eighteen. Three girls this year will graduate, all of them having plans to move away and go to college, leaving the ballet. These three girls for the first and only times, will have the top roles in the ballet.

I will be exploring the idea of the short life of the spotlight as well as the relationships the seniors have with the other girls.