Victor & Tatiana Kasatsky's The Nutcracker - December 04
V & T Dance Classical Ballet Academy
Who's Who
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Alec Guthrie
Prince Cavalier
Alec Guthrie, a Palo Alto, CA native, has enjoyed dancing since early childhood. He began seriously exploring and training in dance at Ayako School of Ballet. Alec continued studying dance at UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts where he was awarded dance scholarships and graduated in 2013 with a B.F.A. in Dance with a Performance Specialization. At UCI, Alec worked with Donald McKayle as a member of his Etude Ensemble. He has also trained and worked with Jodie Gates, David Allan, Tong Wang, Diane Diefenderfer, Michael Lowe, and Molly Lynch. He has enjoyed working with choreographers such as Penny Saunders, Alejandro Cerrudo, Robin Mineko Williams, Carlos Carvajal and Dennis Nahat. From 2013-15, he has performed with both Neos Dance Theatre (Ohio), and Menlowe Ballet, and in 2015 he joined ODC in San Francisco until 2017 after which he retired and began a new career in esports.
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Paul McCormick
as Drosselmeyer
Paul is a systems engineer by profession and a loving husband and father. When Paul's daughters, Catherine and Sarah, started dancing at the V&T Dance Academy eight years ago, he stepped up to become an enthusiastic volunteer helping out both onstage and offstage. He was honored to be cast in several roles in ten different V&T productions since 2014 including the Nutcracker, where he has performed as a party guest and now in his second year as Drosselmeyer. He has also performed in Fairy Doll where he played the Shopkeeper and in Don Quixote where he played the caballero andante, Don Quixote. Paul would like to wish all of the dancers a wonderful performance and a very special honor to Victor and Tatiana for their outstanding production of The Nutcracker.
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