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Nutcracker

American Repertory Ballet brings the beloved classic Nutcracker to the stage with Tchaikovsky’s magnificent score, thrilling choreography and a cast of more than 100. A holiday tradition for more than 50 years (1964), American Repertory Ballet’s Nutcracker is one of the longest, continuously running Nutcracker productions in the nation. Directed by Artistic Director Douglas Martin, ARB’s professional company will be joined by select students from Princeton Ballet School to tell the story of a young girl named Clara and how a mysterious gift from her Uncle Drosselmeyer brings about enchanted dreams and fantastical scenes. American Repertory Ballet’s Nutcracker is a perfect holiday treat for your entire family!

 

Nutcracker

American Repertory Ballet brings the beloved classic Nutcracker to the stage with Tchaikovsky’s magnificent score, thrilling choreography and a cast of more than 100. A holiday tradition for more than 50 years (1964), American Repertory Ballet’s Nutcracker is one of the longest, continuously running Nutcracker productions in the nation. Directed by Artistic Director Douglas Martin, ARB’s professional company will be joined by select students from Princeton Ballet School to tell the story of a young girl named Clara and how a mysterious gift from her Uncle Drosselmeyer brings about enchanted dreams and fantastical scenes. American Repertory Ballet’s Nutcracker is a perfect holiday treat for your entire family!

 

An Evening of Dance

Princeton Ballet School, the official school of American Repertory Ballet, presents its highly anticipated, annual Summer Intensive performance. Students from across the United States and around the world have spent the last five weeks in serious dance study, under world-class faculty, in a warm and companionable atmosphere under caring and careful instruction conducive to technical and artistic progress. The culmination of their efforts will be presented in McCarter Theatre’s intimate Berlind Theatre. The program will feature the re-staging of a traditional classical work along with several others created specifically for this year’s Summer Intensive students.

Tickets:

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Mail to: Princeton Ballet School, 301 N. Harrison Street, Princeton NJ 08540
Fax to: 609.921.3249 OR Scan and email as an attachment to: [email protected]
Orders will be accepted through July 26, availability permitting.
After July 27, tickets will be available for sale at the door, availability permitting.

Waiting in the Wings: DANCE is POWER

American Repertory Ballet’s flagship residency program, DANCE POWER, is the longest continuously running community/arts partnership in the state, serving more than 1,500 New Brunswick students each year. At the culminating performance, Waiting in the Wings, over 30 scholarships are presented to students so they can continue dancing at our Princeton Ballet School from 4th grade through their senior year of high school for free.

This performance is free and open to the public.

Waiting in the Wings: DANCE is POWER

American Repertory Ballet’s flagship residency program, DANCE POWER, is the longest continuously running community/arts partnership in the state, serving more than 1,500 New Brunswick students each year. At the culminating performance, Waiting in the Wings, over 30 scholarships are presented to students so they can continue dancing at our Princeton Ballet School from 4th grade through their senior year of high school for free.

Pictured: Newly named DANCE POWER Scholars receiving a round of applause at the 2012 Waiting in the Wings performance

This performance is free and open to the public.

Pride and Prejudice Discussion

Douglas Martin, the innovative artistic director of American Repertory Ballet, will discuss his newest full-length ballet, Pride and Prejudice, with professor and renowned Jane Austen scholar Claudia Johnson.

Martin was a principal dancer with the Joffrey Ballet and later with ARB before becoming its director. Pride and Prejudice marks the seventh world premiere he has choreographed for the company.

Johnson is the Murray Professor of English Literature at Princeton University. Her numerous books include Jane Austen: Women, Politics and the Novel, The Blackwell Companion to Jane Austen, ed. With Clara Tuite and Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures. She has also prepared critical editions of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey and (with Susan Wolfson) Pride and Prejudice. She joined the faculty at Princeton in 1994 and was Chair of the English Department from 2004-2012.

Communiversity ArtsFest

Find us at our table where ARB and Princeton Ballet School staff and faculty will be on hand providing information about the organization’s programs along with some giveaways, fun activities and surprises for children.

Rutgers Day

Find us at our table in the Community Zone! ARB and Princeton Ballet School staff and faculty will be on hand providing information about the organization’s programs along with some giveaways, fun activities and surprises for children.

State Theatre of New Jersey Family Day

American Repertory Ballet will host the following workshops at our New Brunswick studio (7 Livingston Ave., 4th floor; Crossroads Theater building):

  • 11 a.m.–11:45 a.m.
    “Hand in Hand” workshop (ages 3-4)
    A first dance class for young children and their parents!  The class will focus on discovering the world of rhythm and dance through gentle exercises and danced “hand in hand” with parents or caregivers. An adult needs to participate along with each child.
  • 12 p.m.–12:45 p.m.
    Jazz Dance workshop     (ages 9 and up)
    This workshop invites students to experience the magic of Broadway … and all that jazz!
  • 2 p.m.–2:45 p.m.
    Beginning Ballet workshop     (ages 6-8)
    An exciting introduction to the world of ballet.

The Sleeping Beauty

The Sleeping Beauty is perhaps the world’s most beloved, and famous, ballet. It is the enchanting story of Princess Aurora who is bewitched by the evil Carabosse and placed, along with her kingdom, into a deep and protective sleep by the benevolent Lilac Fairy. She and the kingdom are awakened by the noble Prince whose kiss breaks the spell. The idea for the ballet came from Ivan Vsevolozhsky, the director of the Imperial Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the end of the 19th century. He tasked choreographer and ballet master Marius Petipa with creating the ballet, which turned out to be, arguably, his (and some would say the world’s) finest. He also commissioned Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky to compose the music; Tchaikovsky had written the score for Swan Lake 11 years prior.