Dance Conservatory of Denver The ’S NUTC EN RA R C D K IL E H R C 2019 1 0TH ANNUAL NOVEMBER 29TH DECEMBER 1ST LAKEWOOD CULTURAL CENTER 470 South Allison Parkway, Lakewood, Colorado 80226 1 COMPANY DANCERS Teagan Benavidez Elena Bonilla Lily Cahill Teagan is a junior in high Elena has been dancing for 13 Lily is so excited to perform in school at DSST. She has been years, and her favorite styles the Nutcracker this year! She dancing at DcD since she of dance are contemporary & has been dancing for over ten was three years old. Teagan ballet. Elena attended Boston years. Aside from dance, Lily enjoyed participating in Ballet’s summer intensive in loves hanging out with friends Joffrey’s summer intensive 2019. Outside of dance, Elena and family, participating in program in Colorado Springs loves to play the piano and debate, climbing, and baking. this past summer. spend time with family. Norah Condon Regan Doyle Dylan Duran Norah has been dancing at Regan has been dancing at Dylan is thrilled to be cast DcD for 6 years and she’s DcD for four years, and she as Clara in DcD’s 10th really excited to be performing loves it. In her free time, she Anniversary Nutcracker in the Nutcracker this year! In likes to ski and play tennis. She and has been in all 10 years her free time, she enjoys skiing, is also a volunteer at Children’s of Children’s Nutcracker calligraphy, and drawing. She Hospital and she wants to be a performances! Dylan is also loves spending time with surgeon someday. a freshman dance major friends and family! at Denver School of the Arts. Dylan wants to be a Veterinarian and reminds you to please spay and neuter your pets. 2 Dilara Ertunc Tori Fowler Natalie Green Dilara has been dancing and Tori is 14 years old and in Natalie has been dancing for performing with DcD for eighth grade. She has attended 10 years. When she is not 13 years. Outside of dance, summer intensives at Joffrey dancing, she enjoys reading Dilara enjoys playing ultimate Ballet School in both New York and hanging out with friends. Frisbee and spending time City and Colorado Springs Natalie’s favorite book is with friends & family. Dilara is last summer. When Tori isn’t The Penderwicks. a high school senior and she’s dancing at DcD, you can looking forward to performing probably find her dancing in the role of the Sugar Plum her living room. Fairy this year! Sophia Green Della Johnson Jojo Kinsella Sophia is a freshman in high Della has been dancing at DcD Jojo is happy to perform in her school. She has attended for 13 years. She is performing 3rd Nutcracker with DcD. She Boston Ballet’s 5-week in her 10th and final is a 9th grade dance major at summer intensive for the past Nutcracker this year. Della is DSA, who loves hip-hop and three years. In her free time a senior at Denver East High jazz dance. Outside of dance, she goes to ballet and takes school where she participates she serves on the SCFD teen the occasional nap with her in Honors Choir, A Cappella council, and on her church’s cat. Sophia is so exited Choir and Model UN. teen leadership team. to be Clara in the tenth annual Nutcracker! Juliet Michalec Juliet has been dancing with DcD since she was 3 years old. She has attended summer intensives at ABT, the Jilliana School, and Boston Ballet. This is Juliet’s 4th year as a dance major at DSA. Outside of dance, she enjoys playing with her 4 younger brothers, reading, biking, and swimming. 3 Madeline Mills Janey Nollsch Madeline has been dancing for 13 years at Janey has been dancing since she was three numerous studios in Virginia, Rhode Island, and is thirteen years old. Outside of school and and Washington. She is very excited about her dance, Janey enjoys skiing and golf. Janey is very second year at DcD and performing the role of excited about this year’s Nutcracker! the Sugar Plum Fairy. Madeline will graduate from East High School in 2020. Alexa Norman Cecilia Sherland Alexa has been dancing at DcD since she was 4 Cecilia has been dancing at DcD since she was 7 years old, and she is excited to still be dancing years old. After moving to CA for several years, in her senior year! She also enjoys skiing, hiking, Cici is delighted to be back and performing in and hanging out with her family and friends. the Children’s Nutcracker. She looks forward to performing her favorite role as Arabian. APPRENTICE COMPANY DANCERS Carolina Anderson Lia Bach Elena Bates Carolina is a sixth grade dance Lia plays the violin, is a Elena has been dancing at major at Denver School of the voracious reader, and she DcD for 8 years. She is looking Arts and has been dancing for loves to cook and bake. Lia forward to participating in this 8 years. Outside of dance, she started in ballet when she year’s Nutcracker with her likes to do crafts and bake. was three years old, and she is friends. She likes to hang out Carolina is so excited performing in the Nutcracker with her family and play with to dance in this year’s for the third time. her puppies! Nutcracker 4 on pointe! Aila Benavidez Lauryn Carr Catherine Cramer Aila has been dancing since Lauryn is so excited to Catherine is thrilled to she was three years old. In her be performing in her 7th be performing in her first free time she loves reading, Nutcracker with DcD! She Nutcracker with DcD. dancing, singing and hanging attended the Joffrey summer Catherine was born in Chicago out with family and friends. intensive in Chicago this past and began dancing at age 4. summer, and she aspires to be Catherine is a 7th grade dance a professional ballet dancer. major at DSA . Mary Frances Ennis Vivian Harp Julia Hoody Mary Frances has been Vivian began dancing with Julia, now 12 years old, had dancing at DcD since DcD in January 2018, and her first dance class ever with 2010, and this is her 8th she’s very excited to dance in DcD at age 3! Since then, she performance in The Children’s her second DcD Nutcracker has developed some of her Nutcracker. An animal performance - particularly closest friendships through lover, Mary Frances has two as the Mini Ballerina Doll! dance and looks forward to dogs and wants a kitten for Outside of ballet, Vivian enjoys seeing them in class each Christmas. She also enjoys spending time with her friends, week. Julia also enjoys skiing crafting and artwork when family and her dog, Foxy. and spending time with family. she’s not dancing. Hope Levy Jem Michalec Kate Mosher Hope loves ballet at DcD, and Jem has been dancing with This is Kate’s 2nd Nutcracker her new favorite style of dance DcD for almost 8 years. Jem is with DcD, and her favorite is modern. She has a twin very excited to share the role subject in school is art. Kate sister named Campbell. Hope of Fritz with his friend, Tristan, would read all day long if her is a 7th grade dance major at and to dance onstage with parents let her. She loves DSA, and outside of the studio his sister Juliet and youngest singing, piano, and ballet she enjoys spending time with brother, Rhett. Jem loves to and she’s very excited to dance her friends & family. play, draw, and make comics onstage with her with his siblings; Juliet, Oliver, sister and friends. 5 Charlie, & Rhett. Addy Owen Maya Owen Catherine Ream Addy is 12 years old and goes Maya has been dancing since Catherine has been dancing to Blessed Sacrament Catholic she was two years old. She at DcD for six years, and School. She has been dancing enjoys traveling with her she is excited to perform in at DcD for almost 10 years family and she has been to this year’s Nutcracker. Her and is really excited for her 9th Hawaii and England twice, and ballet hero is Misty Copeland. Nutcracker! When she’s not to the Netherlands and Spain. Outside of the studio, she likes dancing, she enjoys traveling, She is very excited to get a to play with her dog, Maggie, skiing, and hanging out with puppy this Christmas! and read and write. family and friends. Ainsley Ryan Sophie Stern Teah Stern Ainsley has been dancing at Sophie has been dancing at Teah is fluent in French and DcD for nine years and been DcD for 7 years and is excited English and loves dancing and on pointe for three years. to continue dancing at DcD traveling with her family. She Her favorite styles are ballet, with her friends. Outside of also loves spending time contemporary and modern. dance, she loves to hangout with her friends and In her free time, she likes with her brother and to play trying new foods. running, swimming, with her dogs. She is excited to and baking. dance in the Nutcracker this year! Georgia Upson Riayn Wagner Georgia has been at DcD for almost 11 years. Riayn has been dancing at DcD for 7 years, Outside of dance, she enjoys reading, running, and she’s a dance major at Denver School of scuba diving, free diving, and sleeping. Georgia the Arts. When Riayn is not dancing, she enjoys loves performing, and she is really excited about skiing with her family and going this year’s Nutcracker! to the mountains.