The Nutcracker 2019 - December 07 - December 08, 2019
The Kintz-Mejia Academy of Ballet
Upper-Level Students & Guest Artists
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Diego Sosa
Mr. Sosa was born in Asunción, Paraguay, where he began his dance training. He received a scholarship to Washington School of Ballet and continued his professional training in Brazil, Italy, Spain, and France. He danced with, among others, Municipal Ballet of Asunción and Ballet de la Universidad del Norte, where he performed as Principal Dancer for 10 years and, most recently, as Principal Dancer with Ballet Theatre of Maryland. Mr. Sosa is currently a freelance dancer working with various companies, artists and galas, and also teaches locally. He has been performing as a guest artist with KMAB since 2018.
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Noah Strand
Mr. Strand is from Frederick, Maryland, and began his ballet training at the age of nine at the Washington School of Ballet before continuing his dance training at the School of American Ballet in New York City at age fourteen. He has performed with the New York City Ballet and participated in the New York Choreographic Institute, performing original works by Kaloyan Boyadjiev, Dana Genshaft, and Gianna Reisen, and has also trained and performed with the Boston Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and the San Francisco Ballet. This is his first year as a guest artist with KMAB.
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Clara Xiao
Clara was born in Fairfax, Virginia, and has been dancing with KMAB since 2008. She currently lives in McLean and is in the eighth grade. She has danced Jewels variation (The Sleeping Beauty); Ocean and Pearls (The Little Humpbacked Horse); Dance of the Little Swans Pas de quatre (Swan Lake); Odalisque Pas de trois (Le Corsaire); Fairy Doll variation (The Fairy Doll); Silver Metal variation (Aladdin)(Mejia); Mechanical Doll, Chinese Dance, Clara (The Nutcracker); First variation, Act 3 (Raymonda); Spring Waters PDD (Spring Waters); and Bacchante variation (Walpurgisnacht).
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