Ballet Tico 🩰✨

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We are back with another live class! 🩰✨ You can join the live even if you do not have TikTok. 😊

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Hi BlueSky! We are back again on TikTok live tonight with our Advanced class. 🩰✨ You can join the live even if you do not have TikTok. 😊

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We are live again tonight! This time with our beginner's class. 🩰✨ You can join the live even if you do not have tiktok. 😊

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Come join us on tiktok live now and see one of our classes in action! 🩰✨ You can join the live even if you do not have a tiktok account. 😊

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Established in 2022, Ballet Tico welcomes everyone who adores ballet to develop their skills in a supportive and encouraging space. Hear from some of our ballerinas about their experiences at Ballet Tico. 🩰✨

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Part 2: Working with nonprofits for over a decade + her ​lifelong love of 🩰 inspired our artistic director, Ana, to create #BalletTico.

“I have always said that #ballet changed my life, so I have always found it very necessary to be able to give the opportunity to others.”

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Same drawing of the ballerina featured on the poster and cover along left of page. English Translation: Snowflakes: ANGELA AVALOS RIVAS Aurora Avalos Rivas Susan Bolton Lopez FIORELLA MEDINA SALAS Saray Palacios Navarro THEZZA PUSEY ARCE ALEJANDRA REUBEN MATAMOROS Valeria Solano Camacho Ana Luisa Venegas Monge

Cute puppy sleeping while wrapped in holiday lights and wearing a hat with antlers at bottom of page. English Translation: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO THOSE WHO COLLABORATE WITH BALLET TICO EVERY DAY, TO THE BEAUTIFUL GROUP OF DANCERS WHO TRUST IN OUR WAY OF DOING BALLET AND TO THEIR FAMILIES, AND TO THOSE WHO ACCOMPANY AND SUPPORT US. AMUSEMENT PARK CAPELLA BALLET SOFIA JORDAN YA DAISY (Daisy is Ballet Tico’s creative director Ana’s dog. Daisy accompanies Ana to nearly every ballet class and brings much joy to everyone.)

Ornaments top right and Christmas tree and presents bottom left of page. English Translation: CAST Clara: MARIA BELEN DURAN MENDEZ Nutcracker Princess: Mariana Palazuelos Prado Clara's mom: ALEJANDRA REUBEN MATAMOROS Saleswomen: Andrea Garcia Flores Valerie Ramirez Aburto ALEXA SAENZ MORA Clara's friends: BRYANNA SOFIA GAZO MORALES ELISA ROUND WIDTH Mice: JENNIFER BOLANOS AGUILAR EMMA SANCHEZ ALIZAGA ARIANNA VEGA ARGEÑAL CELESTE ZEPEDA RODRIGUEZ

Program page with a sloth wearing a Santa hat hanging on a branch top left and and a pile of chocolate candy bottom right on page. English Translation: Angels: JENNIFER BOLAÑOS AGUILAR EMMA SANCHEZ ALIZAGA ARIANNA VEGA ARGEÑAL CELESTE ZEPEDA RODRÍGUEZ Chocolate candy: ANGELA ÁVALOS RIVAS AURORA ÁVALOS RIVAS FIORELLA MEDINA SALAS Sloth: ANA LUISA VENEGAS MONGE Morenitos - local candy: SUSAN BOLTON LÓPEZ THEZZA PUSEY ARCE Churchill - local shaved ice: SARAY PALACIOS NAVARRO Candy Canes: BRYANNA SOFÍA GAZO MORALES ELISA REDONDO ANCHÍA

Snowflakes at top left and bottom right of page. English Translation: The Nutcracker Princess It's Christmas Eve, and Clara is looking forward to going to her community's magical Christmas fair. Lady Drosselmeyer greets vendors bearing sweets and gifts, including a charming Nutcracker stand. The magic of the fair begins with the lighting of the tree, and Clara discovers a special Nutcracker: a dancing princess. Clara receives the Nutcracker Princess as a gift to inspire her dance. Upon returning home, she falls asleep, and at midnight, the noise of the mice wakes her up. Magic envelops her: the tree grows as she shrinks, and the Nutcracker Princess appears transformed. Together, they meet Christmas sweets and gifts, which come to life in a dazzling spectacle. At the end, a snowstorm begins that brings Clara back home, waking up next to her Nutcracker Princess, remembering an inspiring dream.

Nutcracker drawing along right side of page. English Translation: Production and Artistic Direction: Ana Luisa Venegas Monge Music: Pyotr Illich Tchaikovsky Choreography: Ana Luisa Venegas Monge Costume and tailoring: LIANA SALAS CHINCHILLA MARCIA UREÑA MORA Ana Luisa Venegas Monge Art, Props, and Scenography: KARLA ANCHIA VENEGAS Susan Bolton Lopez Silvia Chavarria Rojas IDALIE VENEGAS MONGE Luis Venegas Monge Susana Venegas Monge

Photo of an up close shot of a ballerina’s shoes top center of page. English Translation: Ballet Classes Ballet Tico offers classes at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. From the age of 3, but without any age limit, at any age it is possible to improve and advance in the practice of ballet. Make your ballet dream come true in a diverse and inclusive community. WhatsApp: 83496362 Instagram: @ballettico

Photo of a Ballet Tico student posed in the studio top center of page. English Translation: Donations Our scholarship and dancer assistance programs are supported through donations. With your donation, you can guarantee dancers in socially at-risk groups access to ballet, equipment, and transportation, to create a Costa Rican ballet community every day, with an emphasis on developing and rewarding national talent. You can donate to SINPE mobile 83496362! Donations can also be sent to paypal.me/ballettico

Ballet Tico’s Princesa Cascanueces (The Nutcracker Princess) poster. The poster background is a deep rich teal, snowflakes and snow of various sizes are all around with a drawing of a ballerina centered in the middle. She is wearing a crown, a pink leo, pink tutu, white tights, and pink ballet shoes. English translation of the poster: BALLET TICO FOUNDATION presents The Nutcracker Princess Tchaikovsky AMUSEMENT PARK DECEMBER 18 | 3:30 PM

Photo of one of Ballet Tico’s students in the top left in a ballet pose at the studio. English translation: Ballet Tico, created in Costa Rica in 2022, as a positive, inclusive, and accessible space for the development of ballet in Costa Rica. We developed 4 action programs to impact the community and ballet culture in Costa Rica. Our values focus on inclusivity, diversity, and keeping ballet education a positive experience that inspires students to improve their ballet practice every day. Action programs Regular students Regular ballet classes throughout the year for all ages and levels of experience. At affordable prices. Open classes No-obligation annual tuition classes at your own pace. For selected ages and levels. Student Scholarships Possibility of partially or completely covering the cost of annual ballet education for students in need of support. Stage Production Development of stage productions to create opportunities for Costa Rican dancers, for Costa Rican audiences.

Today, on the 132nd anniversary of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker premiere, #BalletTico is performing our own version of the beloved worldwide ballet. 🩰🎄✨💕

Here is a digital copy of Ballet Tico’s Princesa Cascanueces program. 🧵 Alt text includes English translations.

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Ballet Tico poster for their Princesa Cascanueces (Nutcracker Princess) production. The poster is a deep rich teal background with multi sized snowflakes and snow all around and a little drawing of a ballerina centered in the poster wearing a gold crown, pink leo, pink tutu, white tights, and pink ballet shoes. The poster is in Spanish and says: FUNDACION BALLET TICO presenta PRINCESA Cascanueces Una nueva interpretación del ballet tradicional, con la música de P.I. Tchaikovsky PARQUE DIVERSIONES 18 DE DICIEMBRE | 3:30 PM

Today is the day!

Ballet Tico is excited to present Princesa Cascanueces (The Nutcracker Princess) at Parque Diversiones today at 3:30pm local time. 🩰🎄✨💕

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Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker: Eat, sleep, dance, repeat.

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Our ballerinas practicing for Princesa Cascanueces (Nutcracker Princess), an original Nutcracker suite created by our director, Ana. Ballet Tico will be performing Princesa Cascanueces later this month. Stay tuned for more details! 🩰✨❄️🎄

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Part 2: Working with nonprofits for over a decade + her ​lifelong love of 🩰 inspired our artistic director, Ana, to create #BalletTico.

“I have always said that #ballet changed my life, so I have always found it very necessary to be able to give the opportunity to others.”

#BalletSky #CostaRica

Part 1: Meet our founder & artistic director, Ana.

“I felt a need to find ways for #ballet to resonate with people who have never been close to ballet, who have had the idea of dancing, who have had difficult experiences, to find a place that is more positive & welcoming to everybody.”

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Established in 2022, Ballet Tico welcomes everyone who adores ballet to develop their skills in a supportive and encouraging space. Hear from some of our ballerinas about their experiences at Ballet Tico. 🩰✨

#Ballet
#BalletSky
#BalletTico
#CostaRica

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Ballet Tico is Costa Rica’s spot for celebrating diversity in ballet. Whether you're a beginner or a pro, we celebrate all dancers, backgrounds and abilities - because ballet should be fun and for all!

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