This holiday season, members of the Time to Dance (TTD) Ensemble Dancers with Co-founders Dr. Chervony Belsky, and Lisa Gold, team up with North Shore School of Dance (NSSD) students for “The Peanut Cracker.” These performances, featuring more than 70 dancers from age 3 to 80, will take place at 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 8. at Lake Forest Academy, 1500 W. Kennedy Rd., in Lake Forest, Ill.
Children and adults have been fascinated with the tradition and fantasy of “The Nutcracker” for more than 130 years and it has been nearly a decade since NSSD performed their first “The Peanut Cracker” with dancers from the schools' "pre-" classes for budding dancers age 3-6. This year, dancers age 50 to 80 from the TTD Ensemble will make a guest appearance in the program for “The March of the Toy Soldiers” creating a highly entertaining multi-generational production. NSSD students age 3-6 began rehearsal in October for their performance in “The Peanut Cracker.” To make it possible for all to be featured in the production, the programs for the Dec. 8 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. performances of the “The Peanut Cracker” will generally feature different cast members and numbers. Both, however, will feature "The March of the Toy Soldiers” performed by dancers of the TTD Ensemble.
