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Win a Pair of Just for Kix Nutcracker Leggings

Pointe Magazine

November 5, 2018

Win a Pair of Just for Kix Nutcracker Leggings

Company Life

Melissa Gelfin De Poli and her dance partner Cervilio Miguel Amador perform a dramatic pas de deux from the ballet "Romeo and Juliet" onstage. Amador holds Gelfin by the waist with his right arm and her right thigh with his left and drags her back as she swoons backward in a grand battement devant on pointe. She wears a guazy off-white nightgown and he wears a peasant blouse, green tights and brown boots.

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Dancer Andrew Taft, in a purple jacket and white tights, lunges deeply on his left leg and holds his arms out wide while her partner, ballerina Elizabeth Barreto, has her right leg wrapped around his waist while she holds her upper body up in a "fish" lift. She wears a bright pink tutu and tiara, and they dance onstage during a performance of the Nutcracker ballet with backdrops depicting the Land of Sweets.

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