CCM Prep SERIES Presents

fall youth ballet concert

Dec. 9-11, 2022, Patricia Corbett Theater

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  • CCM Preparatory Ballet Faculty | Thomas Bell, Ana Bird, Jonnie Lynn Jacobs-Percer, Heather Cameron-Johnson, Isabele Elefson, Elizabeth Russell, Shauna Steele, Tricia Sundbeck, and Rachael Vrbancic

The CCM Youth Ballet Companies feature talented students from ages nine through adult, performing traditional and contemporary works choreographed by CCM and CCM Prep faculty.

Acknowledgments

THANK YOU!

The CCM Prep Dance Program would like to thank our amazing faculty, administrators, and Dean for giving our students such a wonderful fall semester of classes and performances.  What a year it has already been.  We have ten graduating seniors this year.  Each one has been balancing college applications, school musicals, other extra curriculars, and dancing with grace. We are thrilled to watch them show their individuality in their Senior choreography and in their dancing.   

We would also like to thank Dr. Ann Choe (Our CCM Fairy Godmother) for her countless hours of support to our dancers and faculty.  I truly don't know how CCM would function without her.  Thank you to our parents for supporting your children in their passion for dance.  To Gwen Thoroughman, Bay Warren, and Jeff Corcoran we appreciate all that you have done this year to keep our program growing.

On a personal note it is exciting to watch our program rebound and watch so many little people on Saturday mornings smiling and laughing through the joy of dance. I would also like to thank you all for the kind emails, texts, and quick chats in the hallway showing me so much support since I took the directorship of this incredible program.

Happy Holidays! Please have a safe New Year.

See you in 2023, 
Tricia Sundbeck

Dance Selections

Merry-Go-Round of Life

  • Choreographer | Olivia Radecki, senior
  • Music | Merry-Go-Round of Life by Joe Hisaishi 
  • Costumes | CCM Prep
  • Dancers | Arabella Bertucci, Sawyer Grasha, Abigail Riester, Ellie Saling, Sarah Turner, and Katrin Vilinsky

Dedication by Olivia Radecki:
This piece is dedicated to my parents, my brothers, and my entire family, for all of their love and support of me over the years, as they’ve gone around with me on the journey we call life. 

Eleanor Rigby

  • Choreographer | Clara Venia, senior
  • Music | Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles
  • Costumes | CCM Prep
  • Dancers | Havana Molina, Olivia Radecki, Lilyanne Thoroughman, Cenjing Wang, and Lila Wilmes

Dedication by Clara Venia: 
This is dedicated to my mom and my dad, because Eleanor Rigby is one of my mom's favorite Beatles songs and both my parents have been my biggest supporters. 

Misty Memories

  • Choreographer | Monika Vilinsky, senior
  • Music | Who is She by I Monster
  • Costumes | CCM Prep
  • Dancers | Anna Dawson, Caty Leahy, Greta Lecrone, Maria Kristinsdottir, Olivia Massey, and Katrin Vilinsky

Holiday Canon

  • Choreographer | Tricia Sundbeck
  • Music | Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel
  • Costumes | CCM Prep
  • Dancers | Elke Buschbeck, Bekah Degnan, Lee Ellen Drechsler, Maya Gabay, Jeremy Thomas, and Alyssa Tobin

Purple Haze

  • Choreographer | India Nichols, senior
  • Music | Runaway by Half Alive 
  • Costumes | CCM Prep
  • Dancers | Sawyer Grasha, Olivia Radecki, Lilyanne Thoroughman, Sarah Turner, Clara Venia, Cenjing Wangin

Eventually

  • Choreographer | Greta Lecrone, senior
  • Music | Eventually by Tame Impala
  • Costumes | CCM Prep
  • Dancers | Arabella Bertucci, Anna Dawson, Maria Kristinsdottir, Caty Leahy, Olivia Massey, Abigail Riester, Monika Vilinsky

Dedication by Greta Lecrone: 
To my beautiful dancers, for making this piece what it is, and for the wonderful memories I will cherish forever.  

Intermission

The Nutcracker Act 2

A two-act classical ballet from 1892 originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1816 short story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.”

Opening

  • Choreographers | Thomas Bell, Ana Bird, Heather Cameron-Johnson, Isabele Elefson, Tricia Sundbeck
  • Music | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 
  • Lead Angel | Clara Venia
  • Angels | Beatrice Capling, Evelyn Huey, Tatiana Lanier, Victoria La Niear, Annie Siffel, Annie Spaeth, Dashiell Suess, Juliana Taylor, and Alejandra Villalva-Garcia 
  • Sugar Plum Fairy | Greta Lecrone 
  • Cavalier | Milton Holloway 
  • Spanish Lead | Olivia Radecki
  • Mirlitons Lead | Monika Vilinsky
  • Mirlitons Corps de Ballet | Friday Night: Olivia Massey, Abigail Riester, Lilyanne Thoroughman. Saturday and Sunday | Arabella Bertucci, Olivia Massey, Abigail Riester, Lilyanne Thoroughman 
  • Arabian Lead | Anna Dawson 
  • Arabian Corps de Ballet | Caty Leahy and Maria Kristinsdottir 
  • Russian | Sawyer Grasha, Havana Molina, Clara Novy, Ellie Saling, Sarah Turner, Annie Siffel, Cenjing Wang, Lila Wilmes 
  • Chinese Lead | Katrin Vilinsky
  • Chinese Corps de Ballet | Beatrice Capling, Evelyn Huey, Tatiana Lanier, Victoria La Niear, Annie Spaeth, Dashiell Suess, Juliana Taylor, Alejandra Villalva-Garcia 
  • French Bon Bons | Kabir Ban, Crescent Liu, Cate Lovelace, Sophia Luthman, Nancy Ma, Miriam Monroe, Hannah Thiergartner, Amelia Wuebben, Serena Yi, Summer Yi 

Waltz of the Flowers:

 

  • Rose | Friday and Sunday: Maria Kristinsdottir. Saturday: Caty Leahy 
  • Demi-Roses | Friday Night: Olivia Massey, Olivia Radecki, Abigail Riester, Lilyanne Thoroughman. Saturday and Sunday: Arabella Bertucci, Olivia Massey, Olivia Radecki, Abigail Riester 
  • Flower Corps de Ballet | Elizabeth Arendt, Sawyer Grasha, Havana Molina, Clara Novy (Saturday and Sunday), Ellie Saling, Sarah Turner, Monika Vilinsky (Friday), Cenjing Wang, Lila Wilmes 
  • Grand Pas de Deux | Greta Lecrone and Milton Holloway 
  • Finale | Full Cast

 

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All-Steinway School Supporter
William L. Gasch Endowment Fund for Dance Excellence
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J. Brett Offenberger, MD and Mr. Douglas E. Duckett
Dr. & Mrs. Carl G. Fischer 
Greg Mathein 
Jim & Linda Miller 
George & Caroll Roden
Ken and Toni Kanter
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The Estate of Genevieve Smith
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Rafael and Kimberly de Acha
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The Friedlander Family
Dr. Randolph L. Wadsworth
Judith Schonbach Landgren and Peter Landgren
Mr. & Mrs. Harry H. Santen
Elizabeth C.B. Sittenfeld
Elizabeth Stone
Mrs. Thomas E. Stegman
Mrs. Theodore W. Striker
Mrs. Harry M. Hoffheimer
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The Friedlander Family
Karl Zipser
Chamber Music at CCM
Jan Rogers
Willard and Jean Mulford Charitable Fund of the Cambridge Charitable Foundation
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Strader Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation
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