Cincinnati Ballet Nutcracker Kids

Children of the Otto M. Budig Academy of the Cincinnati Ballet have an opportunity each year to perform in the Ballet's yearly performance of the Nutcracker. This year I have the honor of photographing the Nutcracker kids. My first day with them was during a technical rehearsal, during which time I took a few candids of them hanging around backstage and during spacing (in a nutshell, being at the right place at the right time on stage).









For some of these kids, this was their first time on the big stage. Looks like they are oohing and ahing at the hugeness of it all. The stage, indeed, is quite impressive.