New Haven Ballet is looking for classically trained child dancers for our upcoming Nutcracker production. Auditions are September 23-24, 2023. Students enrolled at New Haven Ballet in Creative Ballet 1 through Level 8 (ages 4+ years) are eligible to participate.
New Haven Ballet will show both casts of the 2021 Nutcracker:
Friday, January 6, 2023
ECA ACES Arts Hall, 55 Audubon Street (Orange Street Entrance)
Fri/Sun Cast 4:30-5:45 p.m.
Sat/Sat Cast 6:00-7:15 p.m.
$5 Entrance Fee
New Haven Ballet invites you inside the studio as Artistic Director, Lisa Kim Sanborn, and Alejandro Ulloa work with students preparing to perform The Nutcracker.
Congratulations to the New Haven Ballet dancers who were spectacular in their performance at the Dixwell Community House (“Q House”) on Sunday. Thank you to everyone who came out to support us and a special thank you to Yakima Robinson and LEAP for partnering with us.
It was exciting to have Natasha Lubczenko of CT Style visit NHB studios. She interviewed students and filmed one of our Nutcracker rehearsals.
Click Here to see NHB students’ appearance on CT Style, which aired on Friday, December 2.
New Haven Ballet wishes to thank Raeanne Reynolds, Principal of the Francis Walsh Intermediate School, and Frank Carrano of the Branford Arts and Cultural Alliance for partnering with New Haven Ballet this past weekend. The dancers were beautiful and the performance was a resounding success. We are grateful to everyone who supported the ballet by attending the performance. Thank you for a wonderful time!
Our next free performance is December 4 at 4:00 p.m. at the Dixwell Community House “Q House” located at 197 Dixwell Avenue, New Haven. Doors open at 3:30 p.m.
Contact New Haven Ballet if your school group or retirement residence would like to attend The Nutcracker on December 16-18, 2022 at the Shubert Theatre New Haven. Guest stars from New York City Ballet will perform as the Sugar Plum Fairy and Cavalier.
School groups may purchase tickets as low as $20 per seat.
Retirement residences may receive a 25% discount on tickets.
Contact New Haven Ballet for more information at email: administrator@newhavenballet.org or tel. 203-782-9038.
New Haven Ballet encourages students who attend classes and/or rehearsals on Friday, October 28, Saturday, October 29, and/or Sunday, October 30, to wear dancewear other than their class uniforms or other dance class appropriate Halloween costumes.
Class attire must not compromise a student’s ability to dance fully; props are not allowed, and costumes may not leave glitter, feathers, etc., on the floor.
If you are so inclined, please make a donation to the NHB Annual Fund
We look forward to seeing your spellbinding attire!
Artistic Director, Lisa Kim Sanborn, announces that New York City Ballet’s Harrison Coll will perform as the Cavalier in New Haven Ballet’s 2022 production of The Nutcracker at the Shubert Theatre New Haven on December 16-18, 2022. Mr. Coll will join NYCB’s Sara Adams, who will perform as the Sugar Plum Fairy.
Click Here to See Harrison Coll in NYCB’s Justin Peck ballet, “Easy”
Click Here to Purchase Nutcracker Tickets
Harrison Coll Bio
Harrison Coll joined New York City Ballet as a dancer in 2012 and was promoted to Soloist in 2018. He has danced numerous featured roles with the company, performing ballets by choreographers such as: Jerome Robbins, Justin Peck, and George Balanchine. Mr. Coll worked as a creative collaborator for Justin Peck’s 2018 revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, and performed with cast for the Tony Awards that year. He is featured as a Jet in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story and plays one of the “fancy free” sailors in Bradley Cooper’s upcoming film “Maestro”.
New Haven Ballet is pleased to announce that New York City Ballet soloist, Sara Adams, will perform as the Sugar Plum Fairy in New Haven Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker at the Shubert Theatre New Haven on December 16-18, 2022. New Haven Ballet Artistic Director, Lisa Kim Sanborn, states, “We are thrilled to have Sara perform with us. She knows many of our students having been a member of New Haven Ballet’s faculty a few years ago. She is an absolutely stunning dancer and I cannot wait for our audiences to see her perform.”
Click Here to See Sara Adams perform NYCB’s Raymonda Variations
Click Here for Tickets to The Nutcracker
Sara Adams Bio
Sara Adams was born in Dennis, Massachusetts, and began her dance training at the age of six at the Mid-Cape Ballet Academy.
She later studied at the Boston Ballet School, before taking a summer course at the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet, during the summer of 2003.
She enrolled as a full-time student at SAB from 2003 to 2008. She became an apprentice with NYCB in June 2008 and became a member of the corps de ballet in September 2009. In February 2017, Ms. Adams was promoted to soloist.
Honors
Ms. Adams was a recipient of the Mae L. Wien Award for Outstanding Promise in 2007.
Tickets for New Haven Ballet’s The Nutcracker at the Shubert Theatre New Haven are on sale! Tickets
https://www.shubert.com/
We are offering Nutcracker tee shirts for purchase as a fundraiser to support NHB’s Nutcracker 2022 production.
Child sized tee shirts $25
Adult sized tee shirts $25
Children’s tees are slim fitting 100% cotton white tees with the Nutcracker logo in indigo on them. They are available in sizes XS-XL.
Adult sized tees are slim fitting 60% cotton/40% polyester in a choice of indigo or dusty rose. They are available in sizes XS-XL.
Tee-shirts must be pre-ordered and prepaid. The deadline to order your NHB Nutcracker tee shirtis October 15, 2022. We cannot accept late orders.
We have sample sizes in the New Haven office if you wish to see sizing, color and quality.
Click Here to place an order. Choose the Saturday option and select the size and color tee shirt you would like.
NHB logo wear is custom made to order and we will not be able to accept new orders after the October 15 deadline
If you are having trouble placing your order or would like more information about Nutcracker tee-shirts email: administrator@newhavenballet.org
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