Ventura County Ballet Company Nutcracker 

December 7-8, 2024

Oxnard Performing Arts Center
800 Hobson Way
Oxnard, CA
$20-50, venturacountyballet.com | theopac.org

December 7 2024, 2 & 7 p.m.
December 8, 2024, 2 p.m.

california nutcracker

New scenic backdrops hand painted by internationally recognized Russian artist Yuri Samodorov have been added to this classic holiday production, a must see for all ballet lovers. Each performance will be accompanied by the 52-piece Ventura College Symphony Orchestra lead by Maestro Robert Lawson.

Ventura County Ballet was founded in 1992 by Kathleen Noblin. As a lifelong dancer, Noblin recruited and hired an outstanding staff of professional instructors and performers from around the world. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles as a dance minor and studied ballet with Doris Niles, Stanley Zampakus, Olga Fricker, Mara Lysova, and Peter Schetters. Noblin danced with Channel Islands Ballet Company from 1975-1988.

The magic onstage masks the hard work behind, as Ventura County's best young dancers rehearse and perform alongside seasoned professionals. The curriculum, taught in the most basic classes at BAV through the pre-professional rigor of the VCBC, emulates Russian-style ballet based on the American Ballet Theatre National Training Curriculum.