Welcome to the Nutcracker Season!

 I am happy to reconnect with Alumni during this Nutcracker season. Whether you were under the tutelage of Audrée Estey, Judith Leviton, Dermot Burke, Marjorie Mussman, Septime Webre, Graham Lustig, Douglas Martin, and probably Mary Pat Robertson, we all share a common bond. We, as  students or professional dancers, support staff, parent volunteers, and board supporters, helped to make Nutcracker magic together!

This year's 48th annual season of The Nutcracker features new choreography by Company Director Douglas Martin, and a restored Victorian era Act 1, originally created for the company by Princeton Ballet School founder Audrée Estey in 1963. We welcome back Sherry Alban as Children's Rehearsal Director setting the Party Scene, getting those mice whiskers going, and the soldiers' barn door exact! She joins Mary Barton as ARBW Jr Ballet Mistress. Alumna Carolynn Hawthorne is designing and building our Snow costumes.We are proud to have Princeton Ballet School Alumni Stephen Campanella, Jennifer Gladney, Samantha Gullace, and Edward Urwin join our ranks in the American Repertory Ballet company.