Valentina Kozlova Dance Conservatory Company: the Nutcracker December 11, 2010

Kozlova's students perform their annual 'Nutcracker,' with first act choreography by Margo Sappington, who will appear as Baroness Drosselmeyer, and the second act staged by Kozlova after Vasily Vainonen and Petipa. Clara will be played by Alicia Fotino; Ari Mayzick (recipient of a 1999/2000 Princess Grace Award) will be the Nutcracker Prince; Sugar Plum's Cavalier will be Emanuel Abruzzo, and Sugar Plum will be Veronika Verterich who won a Bronze Medal in the October 2010 Yuri Grigorovich Competition for young dancers, held in Sochi Russia.