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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's the same but with a different name/twist. For example:  Polichinelles = Clowns, Dolls are dolls = Dont most studios have Raggedy Ann, Andy and Teddy Bear? TWSB is a huge school, but the roles are limited because most of the roles, including Clara are either professional trainees or professionals. It wasnt always that way. I recall dancers 14, 16 years old within the school playing Clara. [/quote]

Way back in the Mary Day era, Clara was a young teen, 13 or 14 max, usually from the class that had been on pointe for a year or so, iirc. A plum role, but it went to a girl who was still at the stage just before deciding to go on release time in the preprofessional track. Typically an 8th grader. Other roles were party kids, rats, and soldiers. Hoops, dolls, etc. were advanced/preprofessional student roles. One year I was cast as a rat and then they realized they'd cast all of the party girls too small for the costumes (which were already ancient by then), so they recast and made all the smallest rats back into the largest party girls.[/quote]

This makes sense and why NYC and Boston Ballet does this kind of casting. The Clara storyline is a coming of age story of a girl around that age. Interesting that WB has made such dramatic changes that boxes out these younger dancers.[/quote]

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