Three Kenyan dancers will be performing the Christmas classic, Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker on three separate continents next month. Two will be starring as the Snow Cavalier, one in Nairobi, the other in South Carolina, USA. And the third Kenyan, though still a student at the English National Theatre Ballet School in London, has been picked to be the only one of his peers to dance professionally with the National Ballet.
Lawrence Ogina, who is currently an engineering student at University of South Carolina, will perform as the Cavalier opposite Dance Centre Kenya’s Cooper Rust, who will be the guest artist in the USC’s production, performing as the Sugar Plum Fairy. Cooper, who is currently rehearsing The Nutcracker with her own DCK cast, will fly to the US this weekend to meet with her former student with whom she danced last year.
