New Jersey Ballet New Jersey’s Favorite Dance Company
CAROLYN CLARK, Founder/Director PAUL HILLIARD McRAE, Assistant Director LUBA GULYAEVA, Ballet Mistress CAROLYN TENER BROWN, Repertory Coach Company History KOTOE KOJIMA-NOA, Repertory Coach ROSEMARY SABOVICK-BLEICH, Repertory Coach For sixty years, NJB has thrilled audiences from Bergen to Cape May with top quality TAMAKI, Coach professional ballet, giving hundreds of thousands ofDAVID adults andRepertory children their first
introduction to ballet and inspiring in many a lifelong love of the arts. New Jersey Ballet has also taken the best of New Jersey arts to audiences in other partsArtistic of the country and EDWARD VILLELLA, Advisor set records on international tours to Bermuda, India, Italy, Russia and Taiwan.
The created Company The founding of New Jersey Ballet a profound change in the state's cultural landscape. During its 22-week season, NJBʼs acclaimed dancers perform a JUSTIN ESTELLE, LEONID FLEGMATOV, critically ALBINA GHAZARYAN variety of works from classical, contemporary, and jazz ballet, as well as new works from ESNEL RAMOS HERNANDEZ, SEworking HYUN JIN,today. ILSE KAPTEYN some of the most exciting choreographers This repertory includes works by Agnes deMille, Antony Tudor, Petipa, Johan Renvall, Pedro Ruiz, and many more. The EMMANUEL MARTIROSYAN, NAREK MARTIROSYAN company also has one of the largest collections of ballets for children in the country. RISA MOCHIZUKI, GABRIELLA NOA, EUNICE SUBA The highlight of the season for thousands of families is NJB's Nutcracker, the longest MARI SUGAWA, ANDRE LUIS TEIXEIRA running original professional production in the state. This year, the company will give 22 CATHERINE WHITING, YUUKI YAMAMOTO performances in four venues statewide, fourteen of them with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra at Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown. The production debuted in RACHEL CARINA, KAITLYN DAL BON, JACKSON FERREIRA 1971 with Edward Villella, then an international star with New York City Ballet, as the SOFIA GONZALEZ GARCIA, NAHOKO NAKAMOTO Cavalier. Today, after more than 900 performances and over a million viewers, it has AND become a cherished holiday tradition with three generations throughout the state and SACRIPANTI, ROSEMARY beyond. In 2008, theDARA production made historySABOVICK-BLEICH as the first full length classical ballet ever performed in India, where it sold out three performances CHRISTINA THERYOUNG, HUMBERTO TEIXEIRA at that country's Performing Arts Center in Mumbai. AND SOUTHERLAND New Jersey Ballet is designatedQUINCY a Major Arts Institution by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in recognition of its “artistic excellence, substantial programming and broad Jersey Board winner of Directors public service.” TheNew company is Ballet a three-time of the title New Jerseyʼs Favorite Dance Company in the Peopleʼs Choice competition. James R. Gillen, President Scott T. Tross, Esq., Chairman LizaTimes M.Walsh, Esq.,Vice Lynn H. McMahon, Vice President Barbara Gilford, dance writer for The New York New JerseyPresident Weekly for more than Susan A. Manardo, Esq. Secretary Galethis Raffield, Vice President ten years, wrote about the impact and value New Jersey Ballet has for New Jersey:
Jennifer Bakshi Sallydance Levin organization in the New York "New Jersey Ballet Company is the ONLY Nicoletakes Blomfield Donald A. Robinson, Esq. metropolitan area that high quality programming and performances to Jason communities Dailey Mark A. SchererNew Jersey (and at a cost urban, rural and suburban throughout Ellen Dec withNicole Esq. that is "affordable" in comparison the Stefanelli, major organizations in New York Lisa D.Center). Taylor, Esq. City who are at home at Lincoln Residents of our state have access to a three-hundred year-old dance tradition, frequently on their doorsteps. New Honorary Board of Directors Jersey Ballet is an assemblage of professional dancers who embody the highest The Hon. Thomas H. Kean standards of technique and artistry and they are OURS!!!" Ruthi Zinn Byrne David J. Farris Leonard M. Fisher, Esq. Michael K. Furey, Esq. Lawrence P. Goldman Nina Mitchell Wells, Esq. New Jersey Ballet Company, 15-17 Microlab Road, Suite 102, Livingston NJ 07039 Phone (973)597-9600 Fax (973)597-9442 Web www.njballet.org
