{"id":49652,"date":"2025-11-27T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=49652"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:13:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:13:57","slug":"antwerps-ignite-dance-academy-presents-the-nutcracker-ballet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/antwerps-ignite-dance-academy-presents-the-nutcracker-ballet\/","title":{"rendered":"Antwerp\u2019s Ignite Dance Academy Presents \u201cThe Nutcracker\u201d Ballet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/nutcracker-1.jpeg?fit=666%2C683&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49654\" style=\"width:450px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Join Ignite Dance Academy for their 1st annual Nutcracker performance Thursday, December 18th at 7:00 p.m., Friday the 19th at 7:00 p.m., and Saturday the 20th at both 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. at Studio 211 in Antwerp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Owner, Allison Banks, has been hard at work choreographing and staging her first production of the show that defines the dance-world at Christmastime! The approximately 90 dancers ranging in age from 3 up to adult have been diligently practicing since October to bring you a one hour quality performance complete with beautiful custom costumes and a few surprises! Journey with Clara and the Nutcracker Prince as they travel through the Land of the Sweets and decide for yourself at the end if it was actually real or just Clara\u2019s dream!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The Nutcracker will bring you such beautiful Christmas spirit and start your holiday season off right! Please support the local arts in your community and Ignite Dance Academy and be a part of a new Antwerp tradition! For information visit Ignite Dance Academy\u2019s Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Ignite Dance Academy for their 1st annual Nutcracker performance Thursday, December 18th at 7:00 p.m., Friday the 19th at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/nutcracker-1.jpeg?fit=666%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-cUQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 07:48:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49655,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49652\/revisions\/49655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}