Friday Dec. 16, 2011 7:15 p.m.
Sat. Dec. 17, 2011, 2:15 p.m. and 7:15p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011, 2:15 p.m.

Paradise Performing Arts Center
777 Nunneley Road
Paradise, CA 
(530) 872-1719
northerncaliforniaballet.com

Ticket: $15 general, $20 VIP, $12 child (under age 16)

Northern California Ballet presents The Nutcracker featuring the region's very own talented NCB dancers. Outstanding professional guest artists join the production for The Nutcracker holiday tradition for the entire family. Special Dinner and show packages are available through Comeback Diner in Paradise and Jaki’s Hill Top Café in Magalia.

An star cast of artists and guest artists instruct in a variety of skills and levels at the Northern California Ballet.

Trudi Angel, Artistic Director,  danced with the Munich State Opera-Ballet Company (now the Bavarian National Ballet) and the Los Angeles Ballet. She continuously works to grow the Northern California Ballet company, serving its causes for 20 years. 

Evelyn Cisneros-Legate, Director of Ballet Pacifica Academy, was born in Long Beach California and raised in Huntington Beach, receiving scholarships to San Francisco Ballet School and the School of American Ballet with an apprenticeship at the San Francisco Ballet in 1976. With many accolades, her success continued under San Francisco Ballet Artistic Director, Helgi Tomasson as she danced  leading roles in Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet, La Sylphide, and many more.

Tom Barber  is  a frequent guest artist for Northern California Ballet.

Temuuzhin Bold performs regularly with the Classical Ballet of California and has recently been a guest soloist in their productions of Le Corsaire and Giselle.


Juan Carlos Amy-Cordero, dancer with the Eugene Ballet Company and ballet Idaho, was trained at the Boston Ballet school as well as the San Francisco Ballet School.

Leslie Crockett received her formative ballet training from her parents, Barbara and Deane Crockett, early members of the San Francisco Ballet Company and was a principal dancer with the Sacramento and Pacific Ballet, and soloist with San Francisco Ballet. She spent 13 years as a faculty member of the San Francisco Ballet School and is currently teaching at Marin Ballet in San Rafael.

Leslie DeWitt is NCB's instructor for Pre-Ballet. Ms. DeWitt holds a California Teaching Credential and specializes as an instructor for the very young in musical and rhythmic movement.

Richard Gibson is a former member of the Joffrey Ballet and the San Francisco Ballet. He has been guest teacher for the Eliot Feld Ballet and many others.

Solange Gomes attended the Royal Ballet Academy and then went on to study several contemporary dance techniques, entirely focused on Flamenco in recent years.  She is currently artistic director and choreographer for Pasión Flamenca and is on the faculty of the Ballet West Conservatory.

Matthew Hope started dancing at the American Festival Ballet, now Ballet Idaho.  In 2004 he received a Fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts for his contribution as an artist. He currently lives in Portland Oregon where he performs with the modern dance company BodyVox and teaches Ballet and Modern throughout the Portland area.

Bruce L. King has worked with NBC as Ballet Master, choreographer, and principal character artist. For NCB, King has staged two full length world premiere ballets: Heidi in 2000 and A Christmas Carol in 2002. In the spring of 2007, he co-choreographed Dracula with NCB’s artistic director, Trudi Angel.

Jennifer Martin is a principle dancer with Eugene Ballet Company/Ballet Idaho. The Long Beach native  trained under the direction of Patricia Stander and David Wilcox at the Long Beach Ballet Arts Center. She has performed with Long Beach Ballet, Los Angeles Classical Ballet, Francisco Martinez Dance Theater, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and the Montana Ballet.

John Mello has studied with Antonio Mendes, Richard Gibson, Irina Kosmovska, John Clifford, Joffrey Ballet in New York City, San Francisco Ballet School, the Academy of Ballet, the Conservatory of Ballet and the School of American Ballet in New York.