Sara Michelle Murawski has been fired as a principal dancer at the Pennsylvania Ballet because she’s too tall.
Sara has just finished a run of Nutcracker.
Did they only just notice she’s 5’11”? Did they audition her sitting down?
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She needs to partner with Fabrice Calmels, she won’t look so tall.
It appears that Mrs. Murawski is in good company…
– http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/arts/20160426_Pennsylvania_Ballet_to_leave_or_be_let_go.html
– http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/arts/20160428_Dance_world_reacts_to_large-scale_Pa__Ballet_dancing_staff_changes.html
The Sugar Plum Fairy was about to go on and dance the Arabian Variation…? Either the journalist is confused/incompletely informed or there’s been some creative casting.
Calls herself the dance critic — she should know better. I have seen Nutcracker probably 200 times in at least 20 different productions around the world. Nary a one has featured a dancer doing the Arabian dance before coming out for the Grand Pas.
And if she got through that — most versions have some lifts — then I wonder what they are doing that she can’t be in. Unless they have also released their most muscular boys — or the boys have been complaining…
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57ffd422b3db2b5fba140067/t/5849bf4120099e1d6ae5fa22/1481228099210/2016+Nutcrcaker+Playbill+All+Shows.pdf
It’s option 3, “creative casting”, or more precisely a rotating cast.
There were ~24 performances of The Nutcracker between the 9th and the 31st of December. Over the course of the production run she danced the roles of Sugar Plum Fairy, Coffee and Dewdrop.