{"id":6288,"date":"2010-11-19T18:22:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T00:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=6288"},"modified":"2020-09-12T17:14:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T22:14:39","slug":"who-are-those-nutcracker-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=6288","title":{"rendered":"Who are those Nutcracker kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder who those kids are and why they get to dance in the Nutcracker with the world famous Joffrey Ballet? This info came today in an email from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dancestlouis.org\/main.htm\">Dance St. Louis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Each year  118 local children dance in the production after three intensive  months of rehearsals following a rigorous audition process. These  children all get to perform on stage at the Fox Theatre with some  of the best professional dancers in the world, wear beautiful and  creative costumes, and enjoy weeks of training with some of the  area&#8217;s finest ballet professionals. Over  50 more children sing in the choir provided by the Kirkwood  Children&#8217;s Chorale. An amazing  experience in so many ways!<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>About the  Kids<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>10 pairs of siblings, the most ever!  \u2013 9 sisters, one brother-and-sister <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Veterans: 45 members of this year\u2019s  cast performed in Nutcracker at the Fox<\/em> in 2009, three  performed in 2007 but not 2009, five will have performed in all  three years<\/li>\n<li><em>34 different dance  schools<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>88 different public, private and  parochial schools \u2013 elementary, middle and high schools on both  sides of both rivers &#8211; plus 3 homeschooled  students<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>East to West:\u00a0 From Troy,  Illinois (the furthest east) to Labadie, Missouri (about one hour  west)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>North to South:\u00a0 From St. Charles  to DeSoto<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dancestlouis.org\/main.htm\">Dance St. Louis<\/a>, for mentioning the homeschooled dancers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder who those kids are and why they get to dance in the Nutcracker with the world famous Joffrey Ballet? This info came today in an email&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,96,70],"class_list":["post-6288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dance","tag-family","tag-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}