It was a lot of fun watching Ballet Indiana rehearse the Nutcracker. They were all so graceful and smoothe. But, the real impressive thing about this school is that their classes are strictly training. Any practicing for the Nutcracker Ballet was done outside of regular class time.
"We love our home, our students and what is happening here. We have a healthy environment-- the parents share their talents—we respect them they respect us."
Keith Martin
Look how symetrical their formation is! They did not pose for this picture I took it as they practiced. They moved with grace and their formations were very pleasing to the eye. Of course the music for the Nutcracker is great to listen to as well.
"We’re primarily a professional Ballet School. B.J.’s background and my background are purely classical dance . We don’t integrate it with the jazz and things like that or other forms of dance. We’ll do that in the summer intensive, but during the year it’s strictly the ballet technique, the pointe technique… We’ve had very high training and we both love what we do so, therefore, we are not frustrated teachers. And so we are able to pass down to students what we have learned and we continue to learn as well through our students."
B.J. Martin played the role of Nutcracker. The soldiers pictured here are boys from Delaware Elementary School, a Title I school in Evansville. What a wonderful opportunity for those boys.
Kelly Hutchins made the main character, Clara's, dress. She, as well as a couple other mothers, were happy to sew to help out. This was Ballet Indiana's first public performance.
Kelly has worked as a professional fashion designer; a job that has taken her around the world. She is pictured here adjusting the dress for Clara. (My first news article was about the opening of Hooray! a children's store owned by Kelly and located downtown Newburgh.
