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For the 15th year, Festival Ballet Albuquerque presents 鈥淣utcracker in the Land of Enchantment鈥� at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. The ballet opens on Friday, Dec. 19.

Choreographer Patricia Dickinson Wells鈥� take on the beloved holiday ballet uses Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky鈥檚 familiar music but adds distinctly New Mexican characters, including Mr. Coyote, Ms. Roadrunner, Navajo-churro sheep and a stilt-walking Zozobra with jackalope backup dancers.

鈥淚 set it in 1880s territorial New Mexico,鈥� Dickinson Wells said. 鈥淪o, the first act has a lot of beautiful territorial Victorian dresses with that Southwestern look and a real strong Spanish flair.鈥�

During the party scene in the first act, the stage is filled with fascinating characters.

鈥淚 like a full stage,鈥� Dickinson Wells said, 鈥渁nd there鈥檚 so many fun vignettes going on that you will not be bored.鈥�

In the second act of the original 鈥淣utcracker,鈥� eight children pop out from under their mother鈥檚 hoop skirt.

鈥淏ut I didn鈥檛 do that,鈥� Dickinson Wells said. 鈥淚 went to the Cochiti Pueblo and talked to the governor there, and I asked permission to set this section of the ballet around their storyteller dolls, where the woman is sitting there with all the children.鈥�

A uniquely New Mexican tradition, storyteller dolls were first invented by Cochiti Pueblo ceramic artist Helen Cordero in 1964 and continue to be made by Pueblo ceramic artists today.

Later in the second act, the children travel to the Land of Sweets, where, in the original ballet, a series of fictional dance troupes perform dances from their respective nations, including Russia and China. In Dickinson Wells鈥� version, the dances represent the diversity of cultural traditions within New Mexico.

鈥淔our years ago, I received permission from the Zozobra group up in Santa Fe to build on what normally would be the Chinese variation, also known as 鈥楥hinese Tea,鈥欌�� she said. 鈥淎nd I made that into Dia de los Muertos, with Zozobra and the jackalopes.鈥�

Gina Shorten performs the role of Zozobra on stilts.

鈥淪he is a dancer, but she happens to be a circus artist also, so she actually does turns on stilts,鈥� Dickinson Wells said. 鈥淪he does what we (in ballet) call a grand battement, which means a big kick. She鈥檚 doing a lot of things like that, and en pointe turning. It鈥檚 pretty amazing.鈥�

Instead of Russian dances, 鈥淣utcracker in the Land of Enchantment鈥� incorporates a fandango, a traditional folk dance from Spain.

鈥淭here鈥檚 six couples, with the lead couple spinning, turning and leaping all over the stage,鈥� Dickinson Wells said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 like the old-timey fandangoes, but it鈥檚 still very classical.鈥�

Guillermo Figueroa, the music director for the Santa Fe Symphony, will conduct the orchestra.

鈥淚t鈥檚 a full orchestra, and it鈥檚 fabulous at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, because the acoustics are just superb there,鈥� Dickinson Wells said.

All of the dancers are local, and Dickinson Wells has been working with many of them for years.

鈥淥ne of the things that I really believe in is our culture and our community, so I don鈥檛 bring in guest artists or ringers. We build our dancers from within,鈥� she said.

The youngest dancers, who play mice and sheep, start at 7, and the oldest dancer in the production, Rosalinda Rojas, who plays the abuela, is in her 70s.

鈥淪he鈥檚 a veteran of the stage, and she鈥檚 brilliant,鈥� Dickinson Wells said. 鈥淪he studied with American Ballet Theater and Dance Theater of Harlem and Alvin Ailey. And she was a circus artist 鈥� a tremendous trapeze artist. So, she鈥檚 just this amazing Renaissance woman.鈥�

Some of the adult dancers in this year鈥檚 production have been performing in 鈥淣utcracker in the Land of Enchantment鈥� since they were children.

鈥淎manda (Geilenfeldt) and Laura (Sturm) went through the ranks of being a sheep or a little mouse or a little angel, and then grew up through the different roles throughout the years,鈥� Dickinson Wells said.

Geilenfeldt and Sturm now dance as sugar plum fairies.

鈥淭hat鈥檚 the lovely thing about living in New Mexico. I call it a boomerang state, because people do go away 鈥� they may go to New York to dance 鈥� but there鈥檚 this magnetic draw to come back to family. So, as a result, all these beautiful dancers come back. Not all, but a large number of them do,鈥� Dickinson Wells said. 鈥淵ou鈥檒l see that they鈥檙e the best dancers in the state. I鈥檓 not bragging. I鈥檓 just very lucky.鈥�

The ballet has become an annual tradition for many families in New Mexico and beyond.

鈥淲e actually have people now who come in from Nevada and the surrounding states,鈥� Dickinson Wells said, 鈥渁nd we have people who come from Gallup and Santa Fe. It鈥檚 a prideful thing, and it鈥檚 fun and beautiful and uplifting. You鈥檙e definitely in the mood for the holidays when you leave.鈥�