Nutcracker opens at Schuster Center Dec. 15-23

Everybody's favorite: the mice.

Dayton Ballet’s timeless holiday classic The Nutcracker returns to the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center for nine performances, Dec. 15–23.  Inspired by Tchaikovsky’s beautiful music, The Nutcracker has become an irreplaceable tradition for families across the Miami Valley.  With its enchanting story, lavish costumes and colorful scenery, The Nutcracker engages the audience from beginning to end.  Choreographed by Karen Russo and Dermot Burke, Dayton Ballet’s The Nutcracker features the late local philanthropist, Virginia Kettering as a young girl dreaming about her Uncle Drosselmeyer’s handsome gift, a nutcracker. She is joined onstage by an amazing group of characters – white mice, marching soldiers, Russian soldiers, a Chinese quartet, shepherds and their lambs, the Snow King and Queen and of course, the Sugar Plum Fairy.

Members of the Dayton Ballet II Senior and Junior companies, as well as over 80 children from all over the Miami Valley, will take part in this year’s performances of The Nutcracker. Oakwood cast members include: Hayley Basnett, Madeleine Bee, Amanda Blust, Emma Bridgman, Alicia Cox, Elisabeth Crusey, Kate DeLon, Erin Donnelly, Mary Grace Donnelly, Emma Flanagan, Sara French, Joseph French, Jessica Garrity, Emily Haluschak, Sarah Haluschak, Maddie Hoffman, Rachel Hutchison, Hannah Knorr, Erin Lane, Isabel Lovett, Alexandra Millard, Abigail Seyfang, Lainey Teeters, Madison Teeters, Allison Trittschuh, Samantha Warwar, Hannah Warwar, Claire Weinstein, Madeline Welch, Katie Whitehair and Erica Ohmer.

Tickets are available for purchase through Ticket Center Stage at 228-3630, 888-228-3630 or www.ticketcenterstage.com.

Local artists exhibit to be included in ’07 TDIM

Attention local artists. Planning for the 2007 Oakwood Rotary “That Day in May” Festival has begun and this year a new event is added. Featured will be local artists in all media. An expansion of the festival to include local artists presenting and selling their creations will be featured on the midway grounds at Mack Hummon Field. This popular 20-plus year old community event will take place this year on May 19, 2007. In addition to the artists exhibition, there will be a parade, food, pancake breakfast, auction, games, club and organizational booths, carnival rides, 5- and 10K walk/runs and a battle of the bands.

Profits from this all-volunteer event underwrite major contributions to community organizations by the Oakwood Rotary Foundation throughout the year.

For further information contact Jim Alt at 477-2977 or jalt@altarchitecture.com.

AIA announces Art in Architecture competition

The American Institute of Architects, Dayton Chapter, announces its Art in Architecture Student Design Competition.

This program is designed for college-bound high school students, grades nine through twelve, interested in art, architecture, or design.  The competition is open to all students within AIA Dayton’s nine-county geographic region including Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Logan, Miami, Montgomery, Preble and Shelby Counties.

AIA Dayton has sponsored this program for 26 years. Miami University Architecture students serve as mentors and share in the learning activities.  

In celebration of the American Institute of Architect’s 150th anniversary in 2007, this year’s program is to create a mock-design for AIA Dayton’s new fictitious headquarters. The proposed site is an empty lot located within the Wright-Dunbar Historic District.  Program registration is limited to the first 60 students, and must be received by Jan. 20, 2007.  Program information, registration forms, site photos and maps are located on the AIA Dayton website, www.aiadayton.org.

The Art in Architecture Student Design Competition is sponsored by Andersen Windows and Doors and underwritten by Wright Dunbar, Inc. Winners in the competition receive scholarship monies for college.

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December 19, 2006
Volume 15, No. 51

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