The Nutcracker Ballet

Iowa State Center Presents

Featuring Joy Voelker Matossian as the Sugar Plum Fairy, and Ramon Gaitan as Her Cavalier.

December 12, 2015 1:30 & 7:30 pm December 13, 2015 7:30 pm

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Principal Dancers Joy Voelker Matossian • Ramon Gaitan

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ACT I Scene I Overture The Christmas Tree March Children’s Gallop Drosselmeyer’s Presents Godfather Dance Departure of the Guests Dance of the Harlequins The Magic Spell Begins The Battle Between the Nutcracker & the Mouse King

Scene II Journey Through the Snow Waltz of the Snowflakes

Music Peter I. Tchaikovsky Choreography, Artistic Direction Robert Thomas Miyoko Kato Thomas

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ACT II

The Kingdom of the Sweets Clara & the Prince Fairy Godmother & the Angels Divertissements Spanish Russian Irish Hungarian Puppets Chinese Flutes Arabian Neapolitan Mother Ginger American Flowers Pas de deux The Prince & the Sugar Plum Fairy Tarantella Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Coda Final Waltz & Apotheosis Costumes Gene Bliss, Esther Hill, Ann Olson Linda Dawson & Jerri Baumeister Scenery Ronald Steger & Erica Zaffarano Choreography, Puppets Peter Pawlyshyn

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Act I Scene I Action takes place in Nuremberg, Germany in the 19th century. Chief Justice Silberhaus and his wife are in the ballroom putting the finishing touches on a beautiful Christmas tree before guests arrive for a party. Clara and Fritz, the children, help greet the guests, and the festivities begin with dances for both the adults and children.

One guest is late, the children’s godfather, Herr Drosselmeyer. When he arrives he gives gifts to the children, among them a wooden nutcracker in the form of a soldier for Clara. Fritz wants the doll for himself, and in his struggle to get it the nutcracker is broken. Clara loves and cares for the mended nutcracker. After the guests leave and the children have gone to bed, Clara comes back down to the darkened room to get the nutcracker and falls asleep by her doll.

Suddenly, she is awakened as huge mice enter the ballroom. The clock strikes midnight. She is transfixed as the Christmas tree and the entire room magically grow to enormous size. Led by the Mouse King, an army of mice comes out of the shadows to pick up the crumbs of cookies that were dropped at the party. Clara’s nutcracker turns into a handsome young prince, who protects her from the mice. The ballroom becomes a battleground when a brigade of tin soldiers, led by the Nutcracker Prince, confronts the mice. Clara springs to help, and they finally overcome the mice. Clara’s devotion inspires the Nutcracker Prince to invite her to visit the magical Candyland with him.

Scene II On their way to Candyland, Clara and the Nutcracker Prince pass through a great snowstorm with dancing snowflakes whirling around them.

Act II The delectable Sugar Plum Fairy, who orders a festival in Clara’s honor because she helped save the Prince, welcomes Clara and the Nutcracker Prince to the beautiful Candyland. With little angels in attendance, the people of Candyland dance for Clara. The Spanish, Arabians, Chinese, Russians, Flutes, Neapolitans, Hungarians, Puppets, Irish, Americans, Mother Ginger and her children perform their own special dances in the grand celebration.

Even the flowers dance for the delighted children in this enchanted fairyland. The festival concludes with the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier paying homage to Clara and the Nutcracker Prince.

Epilogue Back in the ballroom, Mother and Father find a sleeping Clara and carry her back to bed. It has all been a dream...or has it?

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ACT I, SCENE I Justice Silberhaus Timothy Bergin Frau Silberhaus Ellen Mullen Clara Roni Ben-Shlomo, SaM Michelle Osanya, SaE Haileigh Patton, Sun Fritz Adam Wolf Maids Amy Diekmann Jeni Grimmius, SaM Sharla Matthys Sylvia McGee, SaE/Sun Crystal Nelson, SaE Paige Nieland, SaE/Sun Nichole Rusnak, SaM Jessica Ward, SaM/Sun Clara’s Little Friends Erin Barnes, SaE Morgan Damge, Sun Maria Dobrovitskaya, Sun Addison Downs, SaM Kenna Jack Foley, SaM Emma Kisgen, Sun Bella Nelson, SaE Vienna Rossmanith, SaM Emma Schmitt, SaM Madison Stott, SaE Harmony Wong, SaE Grace Wu, Sun Clara’s Big Friends Noam Ben-Shlomo, SaM/Sun Abbi Brown, SaM/SaE Sofia Dobrovitskaya, Sun Anna Dodd, SaM/SaE Maggie Jacobson-Fisher, SaM/SaE/Sun Evy Nelson, SaM Rylee Rash, SaE/Sun Autumn Rettig, SaM/SaE/Sun Kendall See, SaE/Sun

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Fritz’s Friends Caleb Biensen Laiken Buss Neely Ferguson Benjamin Jacobson-Fisher Matthew Jacobson-Fisher Ian Kumsher Anton Ludes-Bedell Theo Westort, SaE/Sun Hendrix Widner Will Williams Female Party Guests Cathlyn Anderson, Sun Lisa Banitt, SaM/SaE Melanie Bretey, SaM Angela Erickson, SaM Jane Esterly-Rettig, SaE/Sun Ann Gansemer-Topf, SaM Molly Neal-Wong, SaE Sara Nelson, SaM/Sun Amie Rockow-Nelson, Sun Nichole Rusnak, SaE Barbara Steiner, Sun Kristin Peyton Strohman, SaE Male Party Guests Bill Barry, SaM/SaE Allen Beck, SaE/Sun Alec Gansemer, SaM Jeni Grimmius, SaE Daniel Kellen, SaM Erich Ludes Jim Nelson, SaM/Sun Chris Rettig, SaE/Sun Brandon Windus, Sun Drosselmeyer Nils Krumnack Indian Boys Jewels Buss Justice See Ballerina Dolls Amy Cyr, SaM Beth Cyr, SaE Madaline Patton, Sun

Raggedy Ann Dolls Evan Bay Brakke, SaM Lola Campbell, SaM Alissa Hoover, SaE/Sun Marika Kisgen, Sun Sierra Mitchell, SaE Erin Murphy, SaM Catherine Pollard, SaM Taylor Povah, Sun Lily Rettig, SaE Sadie Straub, Sun Halle Walker, SaE Moor Dolls Molly Bagnall, SaE Chloe Barry, SaM Madison Moody, Sun Harlequins Lily Angus, SaE Leah Biensen Evie Christenson Camryn Damge, SaM/Sun Evelyn Damge, SaM/Sun Meredith Frandsen, SaE Natalie Haila, SaM/Sun Blair Hibbing Noelle Johnson, SaE Kaley Lancaster Riley Lempiainen, SaE Lydia Leptien LilyAnna Loveland, SaM/Sun Jillian Mallas, SaE Irisa McCracken, SaM/Sun Lily McCracken, SaM/Sun Alexa Nelson, SaE Brooke Nelson, SaE Anja Peck Aliyah Sanchez, SaE Maycin Sansgaard Hailey Schneider, SaM/Sun Alexandra Severe, SaM/Sun Samantha Smith Greta Stecker, SaE Allison Stott Sarah Stott Dinah Tritle, SaM/Sun Josie VanGorp, SaM/Sun Maia Westort, SaE

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Mice Hannah Acton Savannah Buys Kilei Gunderson Kelli Helmer Alexus Keister Tara Myers Dylan Oldenburger Noelle Oldenbuger, SaE/Sun Libbie Peel Annika Rice Skylar Rippke Tiaurra Sickerson Carissa Stalzer Brianna Stott Avery Wirth Nutcracker Hunter Glenn, SaE John Topf, SaM/Sun

Mouse King Hunter Glenn, Sun Daniel Kellen, SaE Adam Wolf, SaM First Lieutenant Cassidy Peterson Soldiers Leola Almquist Brealyn Anderson Haylie Bryant Hope Burch Lydia Cook Serena Cross Ali Frandsen Bailee Hansen Josie Johnson Libbie Johnson Cadence Lilla Louisa Ludes-Bedell Bronwyn McKee Kyla Perkins Katrina Wiech Grace Wirth

ACT I, SCENE II Snowflakes Molly Bagnall Chloe Barry Madeleine Bretey Ellie Conrad Amy Cyr Beth Cyr Julia Hansen Anna Holly Danilea McKee Madison Moody Cari Naanep Miranda Oldenburger Madaline Patton Kaitley Peterson Carlie Seuferer Alissa Watters

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ACT II, SCENE II Fairy Godmother Madeleine Bretey, SaM Wendy Kepley, SaE Leanna Mullen, Sun Angels Willow Anderson, SaM Sara Brown, SaM Catherine Cave, SaE/Sun Katie Delaney, SaE/Sun Lily Ferguson, SaE/Sun Alessandra Hall, SaE/Sun Payton Hauersperger, SaM London Hibbing, SaM Alexus Hildebrand, SaM Lily Klindt, SaM Gabriella Lempiainen, SaM Reese Pederson, SaE/Sun Skyla Steffen, SaE/Sun Allison Tjaden, SaM Spandhana Venkat, SaE/Sun Madison Vogel, SaE/Sun Spanish Chloe Barry Madeleine Bretey Julia Hansen Cari Naanep Miranda Oldenburger Alissa Watters Neapolitans Molly Bagnall Amy Cyr Beth Cyr Kaitley Peterson

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Puppets Ireland Buss, SaM Corinne Colburn, Sun Julia Divine, SaE Delaney Eickert, Sun Amelia Gogerty, Sun Emily Helmer, SaM Jenna Hoskins, SaM/Sun Lillian Hovar, SaM Hallie Johnson, SaE Emma Lewin, Sun Eliza Loecke, SaE Julia Marks, SaM/SaE

Puppets, continued Alyson McLaughlin, SaE Cassie Molitor, Sun Kathleen Murphy, Sun Mirabella Oldenburger, Sun Ava Reason, SaE Grace Schmitt, SaM/SaE Angelia Sharar, SaM Kaitlyn Smith, SaE Jayden Ziesman, SaM Chinese Elena Andrews Ellie Barry Sophie Barry Natalie Bretey Anna Holly Isabel Polashek Arabians Alexia Baker Kaitlyn Baker Joscelyn Buss Eva Kellen Lily Rettig Sadie Straub Arabian Men Tristan Frantum Hunter Glenn Daniel Kellen Zach Scholten John Topf Adam Wolf Flutes Danilea McKee Madison Moody Allie Mullen Madaline Patton Russians Alexia Baker Makayla Beisel Joscelyn Buss Kayden Lindahl Erick Rivera-Pillot Ally Scholten Tori Scholten Zach Scholten

Hungarians Kaitlyn Baker Madeleine Bretey Teagan DiSalvo Liz Mullen Hungarian Men Hunter Glenn John Topf Irish Dance Kate Bergin Sara Bergin Evan Bay Brakke Eva Kellen Tara Mina Allie Mullen Erin Murphy Madaline Patton Mother Ginger Alec Gansemer Mother Ginger Big Kids Ella Bates Logan Ferriss Eva Kumsher Alina Markutsya Riley Nelson Mirabella Oldenburger Isabel Wolf Mother Ginger Little Kids Sydney Dodd, SaM Morgan Erickson, SaM Riley Ferriss, SaM Victoria Huss, SaE/Sun Autumn Little, SaE/Sun Aurelia McKinney, SaE/Sun Everlie Mitchell, SaE/Sun Madeline Schonhorst, SaM Anika Shrotriya, SaM Sahaana Venkat, SaE/Sun Natalie Westort, SaE/Sun Kaydi Zoske, SaM

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ACT II, SCENE II (cont.)

Americans Kaitlyn Baker Chloe Barry Ellie Barry Sophie Barry Natalie Bretey Natalie Helland Bailey Hergenreter Alexis Johnson Eva Kellen Madison Moody Mackenzie Mosher Isabel Polashek Lily Rettig Carlie Seuferer Sadie Straub Amanda Watters

Flowers Emily Bowden, SaE/Sun Shria Chug, SaM/SaE Gabrielle Cole, SaE/Sun Isabel Crosby Genesee Diggins-Kennedy Tessa Frederick Lauren Hansen Sara Joerger, SaM/Sun Jenna Kauble Grace Nelson, SaM/SaE Kate Nelson, SaM/Sun Elanna Neppel Jane Ragland Alyssa Waddell

Flower Soloist Molly Bagnall, SaE Ellie Conrad, SaM Anna Holly, SaE Cari Naanep, Sun Alessandra Oldenburger, Sun Rachel Tucker, SaM Dew Drop Fairy Wendy Kepley

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Artistic Directors & Choreographers Miyoko Kato Thomas received her extensive ballet training at the Tachibana Ballet School of Tokyo in her native Japan. In 1964 she came to study at the American School Of Ballet (School of the New York City Ballet). A year later she signed with the Harkness Ballet Company and was promoted to the rank of Soloist in 1969. With the Harkness Ballet, Ms. Kato performed at the White House and toured Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and throughout the United States.

Ms. Kato joined the Joffrey Ballet in 1974. She has performed leading roles in works ranging from classical ballets such as Swan Lake, Coppelia, Giselle (Queen of the Willies), The Nutcracker, Don Quixote, Les Sylphides, Raymonda, Pas des Quatre, and The Firebird to modern ballets and jazz. She has worked with numerous choreographers including Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, Agnes DeMille, Alvin Ailey, Twyla Tharp, Robert Joffrey, Gerald Arpino, and Jack Cole. Among the highlights of her career was a performance for President Johnson at the White House in 1965. In 1966 Kato toured Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East under the sponsorship of the U.S. State Department.

Miyoko Kato Thomas has been married to Robert Thomas since 1971. Robert and Miyoko opened the Ames Dancenter in 1978. Robert and Miyoko own and operate the Robert Thomas Dancenter in Ames (two locations). In more than 30 years of dance instruction, Robert Thomas Dancenters have trained more than 10,000 young dancers. Robert and Miyoko are producers of the award-winning Dancenter Dancers and artistic directors of the Iowa Youth Ballet.

Robert Thomas, an Iowa native, studied dance in Iowa until 1964. In the summer of 1964 Robert received a dance scholarship to Ted Shawn’s Jacob’s Pillow in Lee, Mass. From the summer of 19641967, Mr. Thomas retained a position in the highly competitive Harkness Ballet trainee program in New York City.

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In 1967, Mr. Thomas joined the Harkness Ballet of New York. With the Harkness Ballet, Robert toured the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. When the first Harkness company disbanded in 1969, Mr. Thomas was offered a position with the Stuttgart Ballet, the National Ballet Contemporair, the Joffrey Ballet, the Geneva Ballet, and the second Harkness company.

Accepting a position with the Joffrey Ballet, Robert performed in New York, throughout the United States, Europe and Russia. Mr. Thomas has been guest artist with the Andre Eglevesky Ballet Co., Lar Lubovitch Dance Co., Jack Cole, and Stuart Hodes Ballet Close-Ups. Robert has performed in more than 70 major works which include ballets by choreographers such as Ailey, Arpino, Balanchine, Boris, Cole, Cranko, Folkine, Harkarvey, Hodes, Joffrey, Lubovitch, Massing, Neumeier, Petipa, Rivera, Saddles, Sappington, Severs, Van Dancing, Walker, and Willed. Mr. Thomas has appeared in a variety of media from opera and stage to television.

From 1984-1986 Mr. Thomas was Assistant Ballet Master to the Joffrey Ballet.

In 1981, Robert and Miyoko choreographed and assisted in the creation of the Iowa State Center’s Nutcracker Ballet. They have served as artistic directors each year.

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Ballet Mistress – Act I Janice Baker has served on the dance faculty at Iowa State University for the past 32 years.

Her teaching responsibilities include all levels of ballet, Janice Baker jazz, tap, and social dance. She also specializes in methods of teaching dance for public education, dance in the private sector, and adaptation of dance for special populations.

the project coordinator for the 16th Anniversary of Iowa Dance Theater’s production of “Dracula, Revamped.”

She has been a judge for the Bill Riley Talent Search for 20 years. Her work has appeared in the American College Dance Festival and she is also

Ms. Baker also is director of The Dance Place, a center for traditional and creative dance for children and adults in Des Moines.

Ms. Baker has represented VSA of Iowa at the International Festival in Washington, DC and the New Visions Dance Project, sponsored by Very Special Arts Iowa, is a favorite aspect to her teaching. Here able bodies and special bodies are paired to create a dance where, “all shoes are dancing shoes, all clothes are dancing clothes, and all bodies are dancing bodies.”

As a choreographer, Ms. Baker’s work has been seen at Adventureland, the Ingersoll Dinner Theater, and in numerous high school, university, and community productions in addition to the annual Nutcracker Ballet at Stephens Auditorium.

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Principal Dancers

Sugar Plum Fairy & Her Cavalier Joy Voelker Matossian spent most of her childhood living in Ames where her parents grew up and her grandparents still reside. Locally she studied dance at the Robert Thomas Dancenter, Beth Clarke Studio, and Lind Dance School in Des Moines. Graduating high school from the acclaimed Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, Joy received the highest honor given, a Young Artist Achievement Award. At that

Ramon Gaitan

Joy Voelker Matossian

time she was invited to perform for the Governor

Ramon Gaitan is a native of Nicaragua, He

of Michigan. She earned her Bachelor’s of Fine

started dancing at the age of 18 at the Academy

Arts from the Purchase Conservatory of Dance.

of Movement and Music. He attended Northern

During the summers she trained with The Juilliard

Illinois University where he earned a BFA with an

School, The Joffrey Ballet and Paul Taylor Dance

emphasis in Dance performance. Mr. Gaitan joined

Company. While living in Amsterdam, Joy worked

Richmond Ballet as a second year apprentice and

with Dutch choreographer Anouk van Dijk who

went on to dance with Ballet Theatre of Maryland

is currently the Artistic Director of Chunky Move

where he performed lead roles such as Cavalier

Dance Company in Sydney, Australia. During the

in “Nutcracker” and Ichabod Crane in “ Sleepy

eleven years that Joy lived in New York City she

Hollow”. Ramon had the privilege of working with

performed with companies such as CorbinDances,

choreographer Wayne McGregor during a short

Lane & Co, Artichoke Dance, 360° and at venues

engagement at the Lyric Opera of Chicago for the

such as Jacob’s Pillow, the Metropolitan Playhouse,

production of “Midsummer Marriage”. Mr. Gaitan

Dance Theater Workshop, the Alvin Ailey

was also a member of the Dayton Ballet where he

CitiGroup Theater and others. In addition to her

danced many leading roles. He had the pleasure of

performing career Joy has had a diverse career in

dancing the lead in Burklyn Ballet “Beauty and the

teaching dance of all ages and many genres. She

Beast” at the Fringe Festival in Scotland. Ramon

was a staple faculty member at Mark Morris Dance

is currently an independent Guest Artist and has

Group in NYC and has taught workshops and

performed for choreographer Ron De Jesus for

master classes in numerous states and countries

a Joyce Soho season in NYC, with John-Mark

including traveling to Africa doing arts outreach.

Owen at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, a Japan tour

In the past year Joy has relocated to Madrid, Spain.

with Ballet Grandiva, as well as other companies

Twenty years after performing the role of Clara

throughout the US, including Delta Festival Ballet,

in The Nutcracker at Stephens Auditorium, Joy is

Island Moving Company, Festival Ballet, and most

thrilled to be a part of the 35th Annual performance

recently made a guest appearance with Jose Mateo

and her sixth year as the Sugar Plum Fairy!

Dance Theatre.

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Dr. Sonya M. Stoltze Newstrom

History  the Nutcracker Ballet The Nutcracker Ballet is a classical ballet in two acts. Many classical ballets created during the 19th century have become mainstays of dance companies today. The classical age of ballet focuses on the spectacular collaborations of Marius Petipa with the music of Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky.

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At first Tchaikovsky was not inspired by the story of The Nutcracker, but he ended up writing a brilliant score. During preparations for this ballet, Petipa had fallen ill and entrusted much of the work to his assistant Lev Ivanov, which is why Ivanov is credited as the choreographer.

The Nutcracker Ballet was based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s book, Der Nüssknacker und der Maüsekönig (The Nutcracker and the King of the Mice).

The ballet was first presented at the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg on December 17, 1892.

Antoinetta Dell-Era and Paul Gerdt were featured dancers as the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Prince, respectively.

In London on January 30, 1934, the ballet was performed by the Sadler’s Wells Ballet troupe.

The Nutcracker Ballet finally made its way to the United States in an abbreviated form performed by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo at the Fifty-First Street Theater in New York on October 17, 1940.

In 1944, the San Francisco Ballet performed the first full-length version of the ballet. The New York City Ballet presented The Nutcracker

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Ballet, choreographed by George Balanchine, on February 2, 1954, a production which has become an annual tradition in the Big Apple.

A sign of how popular the ballet has become is the large number of companies that perform The Nutcracker Ballet annually. The Iowa State Center celebrates the 35th year of its production. It has become an annual holiday tradition not only in Ames, but in many American and Canadian cities. People once called this ballet “The Nutcracker Suite” because they knew the music better than the ballet.

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About the Composer

Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky was born May 7, 1840.

The son of a mining inspector, Tchaikovsky was brought up well. He received music lessons as a child, but none of his teachers discerned any signs

when he gave a concert of his own works.

The next year

of genius.

he embarked on his first foreign tour as conductor.

His fame followed him Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky to America where he conducted a concert to dedicate the opening of Carnegie Hall in New York, followed by concerts in Baltimore and Philadelphia.

As a young man, he studied law and entered a civil service position with the government. Tchaikovsky did not take up music seriously until the age of 22. He entered the newly opened St. Petersburg Conservatory as a student of Zaremba and A. Rubinstein. He resigned his government position and supplemented his finances by teaching ill-paid music lessons.

Tchaikovsky composed his first work in 1865, an overture to Ostrovsky’s The Storm. From there, he went on to teach at the new conservatory established in Moscow and his creative career progressed rapidly. He traveled extensively composing operas, symphonies, and ballets. He made his first appearance as conductor in 1887

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Acknowledgements

The Iowa State Center recognizes the following dance organizations for contributing the time and talents of their students to The Nutcracker Ballet.

Amy’s School of Dance, Huxley Ankeny Dance Inc., Ankeny Ashlee’s Creative Arts Academy, Iowa Falls Ballet Academy, Johnston Behn’s Centre of Dance, Boone Beth Clark Studio of Dance, Ames Capital City Dance Center, Urbandale Carol Renae Dance & Tumbling, Boone Carol Tetmeyer Dance Studio, Des Moines Center Stage Dance, Nevada Dance Driven, Madrid Dance Studio of Iowa, Pella Dance Vision, Granger Dance With Me Studio, Belmond Dancin’ With Roxie, Ankeny Danzarts Studio, Des Moines Fusion Dance, Carroll Grace Ballet, Ankeny Hollingsworth School of Dance, Fort Dodge Home School Tumbling — Studio C

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Janice Baker, Iowa State University Main Street Dance Academy, Marshalltown Main Street Dance Studio, Nevada Micki’s Gotta Dance, Ogden Ms. Nina’s Dance Center, Sheffield Pat Barton Dance Studio, Altoona Performance Dance Centre, Ames Performance Dance Centre, Madrid Robert Thomas Dancenter, Ames Showtime Dance Studio, Perry Story City Dance, Story City The Dance Connection, Webster City The Dance Konnection, Montour The Dance Place, Des Moines Westside Dance Academy, Waukee A special thanks to all the parents, family, friends, and volunteers who make this annual production of The Nutcracker Ballet possible.