A Super Story About Super Kids - Dancing In the Nutcracker | A Kennedy Center Digital Stage Original
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Each year, hundreds of children audition to be "supernumeraries" -- the aspiring young dancers who play the soldiers, mice, party guests, and other characters in the beloved "Nutcracker" ballet -- in a visiting company's production at the Kennedy Center. Journey with them from auditions through rehearsals to their performance on the grand Opera House stage. #digitalstage #ballet #nutcracker Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb
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