Connecticut Ballet’s holiday blockbuster and perennial audience favorite, The Nutcracker, returns to the Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic Street, Stamford, on December 15-16 for four performances.
Guest stars Lauren Lovette and Taylor Stanley of New York City Ballet (Dec. 15) and Devon Teuscher and Alexandre Hammoudi of American Ballet Theatre (Dec. 16) will alternate in the roles of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Her Cavalier. Mr. Stanley and Ms. Teuscher will be making their Connecticut Ballet debuts.
Pennsylvania Ballet Principal Dancer Oksana Maslova appears as Snow Queen in all four performances
Connecticut Ballet is the state's professional ballet company. The company's artistic mission is the presentation of the highest quality professional classical and contemporary ballet. Connecticut Ballet was founded in 1981 by choreographers Brett Raphael and Luk de Layress. The company made its Connecticut debut at the Stamford Center for the Arts, where it became a resident performing company in 1986. Striving for continuous artistic growth, Artistic Director Brett Raphael has made the commissioning of new works by today's choreographers a hallmark of the company's repertoire alongside stagings of the great story ballets. Now numbering 60+ works, the repertoire spans the gamut from masterworks by Bob Fosse to George Balanchine to commissioned works from Darrell Grand-Moultrie to Lila York.
Guest stars Lauren Lovette and Taylor Stanley of New York City Ballet (Dec. 15) and Devon Teuscher and Alexandre Hammoudi of American Ballet Theatre (Dec. 16) will alternate in the roles of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Her Cavalier. Mr. Stanley and Ms. Teuscher will be making their Connecticut Ballet debuts.
Pennsylvania Ballet Principal Dancer Oksana Maslova appears as Snow Queen in all four performances
Connecticut Ballet is the state's professional ballet company. The company's artistic mission is the presentation of the highest quality professional classical and contemporary ballet. Connecticut Ballet was founded in 1981 by choreographers Brett Raphael and Luk de Layress. The company made its Connecticut debut at the Stamford Center for the Arts, where it became a resident performing company in 1986. Striving for continuous artistic growth, Artistic Director Brett Raphael has made the commissioning of new works by today's choreographers a hallmark of the company's repertoire alongside stagings of the great story ballets. Now numbering 60+ works, the repertoire spans the gamut from masterworks by Bob Fosse to George Balanchine to commissioned works from Darrell Grand-Moultrie to Lila York.
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