The FASHION Experiment: Watch our online editor guest star in the National Ballet of Canada’s production of The Nutcracker

Most girls have wanted to be ballerinas at least some point in their lives and I am definitely one of those girls. As a frequent ballet-watcher with a personal stride much less elegant than I probably imagine, it’s a marvel to see those beautiful moves up on the stage when done by the professionals. The choreography, the orchestra and the beautiful costumes and stage always seem to elevate the experience to larger-than-life standards. And by that I mean far out of reach. So when the National Ballet of Canada asked me to guest star in a performance of their annual production of The Nutcracker, I was all like “me?”

Cameo appearances are a longstanding tradition in worldwide productions of The Nutcracker, and in the National Ballet of Canada’s version, former guest stars at the have included Margaret Atwood, Mats Sundin, Rob Ford and Kurt Browning. Guest stars play two frantic Russian Petrouchka dolls who shoot a cannon into the audience in Act I to begin the famous battle scene. Frantic I can certainly pull off, but it all seemed a little intimidating to say the least, not to mention all those way famous names in the mix. To help calm the freak fest brewing inside, I wrangled Danielle Suppa, an old friend and fellow ballet enthusiast who you might remember from this video.