{"id":57102,"date":"2018-12-02T22:07:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T22:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57102"},"modified":"2018-12-03T01:48:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T01:48:26","slug":"chyrstyn-fentroy-first-black-woman-to-join-boston-ballet-in-a-decade-debuts-as-snow-queen-in-the-nutcracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57102","title":{"rendered":"Chyrstyn Fentroy \u2014 First Black Woman To Join Boston Ballet In A Decade \u2014 Debuts As Snow Queen In ‘The Nutcracker’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chyrstyn Fentroy \u2014 First Black Woman To Join Boston Ballet In A Decade \u2014 Debuts As Snow Queen In ‘The Nutcracker’<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

WBUR 90.9 FM<\/a>
\nBoston, Massachusetts
\n2018-11-30<\/p>\n

Arielle Gray<\/strong><\/a>, Arts Fellow<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nLasha Khozashvili<\/a> and Chyrstyn Fentroy<\/a> in Mikko Nissinen’s<\/a> The Nutcracker<\/em><\/a> (Photo by Angela Sterling, courtesy of Boston Ballet)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Artificial snow falls gently from the top of the stage of the Boston Opera House<\/a>, encasing the space in an ethereal glittering glow. Beneath it dances Chyrstyn Fentroy<\/a> as the Snow Queen, entwined in an elegant flow of limbs and carefully choreographed steps with the Snow King. The Boston Ballet<\/a> is rehearsing for its opening night of \u201cThe Nutcracker<\/a>,” the other worldly production based off of E.T.A Hoffman\u2019s<\/a> novella<\/a>. Fentroy debuted as the Snow Queen on Thursday evening and will star in the role again on Sunday, Dec. 2.<\/p>\n

Fentroy makes a stunning Snow Queen, traversing the stage in a series of light, precise steps. The role is a notable milestone for Fentroy, who has been deeply involved in the world of dance since she was old enough to walk. She tells me she’s the first black female dancer to join the Boston Ballet in the last decade.<\/p>\n

Growing up as the daughter of two dancers in Los Angeles<\/a>, Fentroy spent a lot of time in the dance studio. \u201c’The Nutcracker’ specifically is something that’s kind of been a part of my life forever,\u201d Fentroy told WBUR<\/em>. \u201cI grew up watching my mom<\/a> do the Sugarplum Fairy variation and spent so many years in the wings watching performances.\u201d…<\/p>\n

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Artificial snow falls gently from the top of the stage of the Boston Opera House, encasing the space in an ethereal glittering glow. Beneath it dances Chyrstyn Fentroy as the Snow Queen, entwined in an elegant flow of limbs and carefully choreographed steps with the Snow King.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20,25],"tags":[29127,19921,3711,29128,29131,29130,29129,6725,3712,10928],"class_list":["post-57102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-arielle-gray","tag-ballet","tag-boston","tag-boston-ballet","tag-chyrstyn-fentroy","tag-chyrstyn-m-fentroy","tag-chyrstyn-mariah-fentroy","tag-dance","tag-massachusetts","tag-wbur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57112,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57102\/revisions\/57112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}