A Nutcracker Story

Alison Stroming

Sugar Plum Fairy

Alison Stroming is a professional dancer, model, and entrepreneur. Her professional ballet career began with the Alberta Ballet in Canada where she toured across the country and also performed as a soloist with recording artist Sarah McLachlan in her Hope Rising! Concert. She then spent one season with Ballet San Jose followed by four seasons with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. As a professional ballerina, she has performed across the country and overseas in Spain, Lithuania, Guatemala, Tel Aviv, Poland, Budapest, and Italy. Alison also had the opportunity to perform with legend, Aretha Franklin, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC for the Washington Performing Arts Foundation. Learn more about Alison>

T. Mychael Rambo

Uncle D

Regional Emmy Award winning actor, vocalist, arts educator and community organizer; T. Mychael Rambo has made an indelible mark here in the Twin Cities performing principal roles at such theaters as: Penumbra, the Guthrie, Ordway Theatre, Illusion Theatre, Mixed Blood, Park Square Theatre, 10,000 Things, Theater Latte Da, Children’s Theatre and Minnesota Opera to name but a few. Nationally and internationally his stage credits include Carnegie Hall and performances abroad in Africa, Europe and South America. He has appeared in local and national television commercials, feature films, HBO mini-series, and other television programming. More about T. Mychael>

Francisco Perciado

Cavalier

Francisco Preciado started his training at Los Angeles Ballet Academy under the instruction of Andrea Paris. In high school he was awarded a scholarship to The HARID Conservatory. He graduated in 2008 and was recipient of the Rudolf Nureyev Dance Fellowship. He completed summer intensives at The School of American Ballet, The Juilliard School and San Francisco Ballet School. In 2009 he joined Ballet San Jose where he danced for 7 seasons and performed works by Jorma Elo, Ohad Naharin, Stanton Welch, Dwight Rhoden, Jessica Lang and Roland Petit. He joined Ballet Memphis in 2017 where he performed works by Trey McIntyre, George Balanchine and Reggie Wilson. Francisco most recently performed with Barak Ballet at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica and The Joyce in NYC.