I want to be the first to welcome you to BalletNova’s annual production of The Nutcracker. What would the holidays be without the iconic growing tree, swirling snowflakes, and all of the magic Nutcracker provides? It’s a timeless tradition and a feast for the eyes and ears.
The real magic, however is provided by our amazing team of faculty, staff and volunteers, and I want to take this opportunity to thank all for their dedication to our school. We’d be nothing without you!
With this said, the fun doesn’t end with Nutcracker! I am thrilled to announce our return to Capital One Hall with a brand-new production of the comedic and fiery classic Don Quixote, to be performed by our Conservatory Division students April 12th - 13th, 2025. I do hope you will save the date for a true treat!
Now, I invite you to sit back and let all of the wonders of Nutcracker usher in what I hope is a joyous holiday season for all.
Sincerely,
Matthew Powell Artistic Director BalletNova Center for Dance
BalletNova Center for Dance is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. BalletNova is supported in part by ARTSFAIRFAX, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Capital Bank, and Wegner CPAs.
The Artists
Matthew Powell, Artistic Director
Mr. Powell received his training at the School of American Ballet, and danced professionally with Pacific Northwest Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, San Francisco Opera, the international tour of West Side Story and more. As a choreographer, he was awarded a fellowship from the New York Choreographic Institute, and received a choreographic award at Regional Dance America. He has created works for Kansas City Ballet, Joffrey Ballet School, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Point Park University, Broadway Dance Center, the art exhibit Capturing Nureyev, and worked as an on-set choreographer for BLOCH dancewear. His rehearsal director credits include Royal New Zealand Ballet, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Slovak National Ballet, Oklahoma City Ballet, and the television show Flesh and Bone, which aired on STARZ. His teaching credits include The Juilliard School, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Rock School for Dance Education, Ballet Hispanico, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, Broadway Dance Center, Peridance, Ballet Tech, Kansas City Ballet School, Trey McIntyre Project, Matthew Bourne, Karole Armitage, Billy Elliot on Broadway, and Universities of Iowa and Alabama.
Constance Walsh, Associate Artistic Director
Ms. Walsh began her training in New Jersey with Vitale Fokine. She continued her training at The French School of Ballet and with William Inglis at the New Jersey School of Performing Arts. After a summer working with Daniel Nagrin, Ms. Walsh moved to NYC to attend the Martha Graham School on full scholarship for 10 years. Ms. Walsh danced with Martha Graham, Pearl Lang, Michael Owens and John Goodwin. In NY she started her own company, Lacey/Strom. Her work was chosen by Martha Graham to be in The Young Choreographers Series in 1975. She began her teaching career in the 1980s after moving to DC to dance with Larry Ensign. In 1991 she opened her own ballet studio in Easton, Maryland. Designing a four studio/theater space, she created a new company and performance venue, Dance Harrison Street. In 1998, her work was honored by Governor and Mrs. Glendening. She was appointed and served for six years on the Maryland State Arts Council. After moving back to DC in 2008, she began teaching ballet at the Metropolitan School of the Arts and BalletNova. She has choreographed many works for BalletNova and directs the adult and enrichment programs. She was promoted to Associate Artistic Director of BalletNova in 2013 and continues in that role. She currently serves on the Kennedy Center's Dance Council and is adjunct faculty in the School of Dance at George Mason University.
The Artists
Jamison Foreman, Guest Artist (Herr Drosselmeyer Sa/Su)
Mr. Foreman is excited to be involved in the Nutcracker this year. Foreman was a student at BalletNova when it was still Arlington Center for Dance, graduating in 2005. Since then, he has performed around the world as a professional actor. When not performing onstage himself, he teaches acting, Shakespeare, and Musical Theatre Performance at the University of the Arts, Drexel University, and West Chester University in the Philadelphia area, as well as joyously accompanying ballet classes for students at BalletNova. He is a proud member of Actors Equity and the United Federation of Teachers.
Austin St. John, Guest Artist (Herr Drosselmeyer Th/Fr)
Mr. St. John is a native of Pasadena, CA where he trained at Le Studio (now Pasadena Dance Theater) with Phillip and Charles Fuller and Cynthia Young Fuller. He was a company member of the Oakland Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, and Cleveland San Jose Ballet. He has performed works by George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, Lew Christensen, Flemming Flindt, Bronislava Nijinska, Alonzo King, Dennis Nahat, and many others. He performed with Rudolph Nureyev in The Overcoat at the Edinburgh Festival. After moving to Bethesda in 1991 he danced with the Maryland Youth Ballet, Eric Hampden Dance, Bowen McCauley Dance, Dancesmith, and other local companies. He has been a teacher in the DC area since 1991 and at the Maryland Youth Ballet from 1991-2020. His responsibilities at MYB included rehearsal director, outreach leader, Gala co-coordinator, and for over 15 years, performing the role of Drosselmeyer in their annual production of The Nutcracker. He is excited to be teaching at BalletNova.
Noah Strand, Guest Artist (Cavalier Th/Fr/Su)
his dance training from the Washington Washington, DC and the School of American Lincoln Center in New York City under the Juan Han, Peter Martins, Jock Soto, Andrei others. He has performed on stage with the Ballet in Peter Martins's Sleeping Beauty and role in Christopher Wheeldon's Scènes de atured in a series of in-studio showcases for York City Public Schools, performing the from George Balanchine's Stars and Stripes appeared on stage and trained with the San Francisco Ballet, Washington Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Boston Ballet. He is currently in his fifth season with Moveius Contemporary Ballet in Washington, DC.
The Artists
Karina González, Guest Artist (Sugar Plum Fairy, Saturday) Karina González is a native of Caracas, Venezuela, and a silver medal winner of the New York International Ballet Competition in 2007. She trained at the Gustavo Franklin Ballet School in Caracas, Venezuela and has danced professionally with Ballet National of Caracas and Tulsa Ballet, where she reached the rank of principal in 2007. Ms. González joined Houston Ballet as a soloist in 2010 and was promoted to principal dancer in February 2013 following her performance of Nikiya in Stanton Welch’s La Bayadere.
She has danced principal roles by the world’s foremost choreographers, including Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella, Dracula, Romeo and Juliet, and The Sleeping Beauty; Andre Prokovsky’s The Great Gatsby; John Cranko’s The Taming of the Shrew (Kate); Ai-Gul Gaisina’s staging of Giselle; George Balanchine’s Western Symphony, Serenade, and Emeralds; Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Elite Syncopations; Nacho Duato’s Por vos Muero, Remansos and Gnawa; Jiří Kylián's Forgotten Land, Petite Mort and Falling Angels; Twyla Tharp’s Nine Sinatra Songs and The Brahms-Hayden Variations; Stanton Welch's Sylvia, Romeo and Juliet, Marie, Giselle, The Nutcracker, La Bayadère, Bruiser, Maninyas, Tu Tu, The Core, Indigo, Divergence, Clear and Tapestry; Christopher Bruce's Rooster; William Forsythe's The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude; Jerome Robbin's In the Night; Edwaard Liang's Murmuration; James Kudelka's Passion; Justin Peck's Reflections and Jorma Elo's ONE/end/ONE.
González has been a guest artist at the Gala International Colombia (2006) and at the New York International Ballet Competition's Gala (2009). Ms. González has also guested with Ballet Estable del Teatro Colon in Argentina, performing the role of Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty. In 2011, she participated in the Career Transition For Dancers' 26th Anniversary Jubilee in New York City, New York and The Festival de Danza Cordoba in Mexico. In the summer of 2012, Ms. González performed in the International Ballet Gala in Malaysia and was invited as a guest artist with Michele Wiles and Charles Askegard's up and coming company Ballet Next at the Joyce Theater in NYC.
Ms. González has been featured on the cover of Pointe Magazine's February/March 2008 issue, Dance Magazine's November 2011 edition and A+C Houston Magazine's November 2011 edition. González was name "Best dancer" 2013 by the Houston Press and was one of Pointe Magazine's favorite performances of the year. Also, González was featured in Kimberly Clark’s and Honda Civic's 2016 Television and Marketing campaign. In December 2016 González was recognized by The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce at their annual Gala. In 2017, González was name one 30th Most Influential Women in Houston and 2018 was invited to participated at the International Ballet Festival of Havana. González was featured in Ed Sheeran’s music video “Put It All On Me.”
The Artists
Connor Walsh, Guest Artist (Cavalier, Saturday)
Connor Walsh was born in Fairfax, Virginia, Connor Walsh began his training at the age of seven under the direction of his mother Constance Walsh. He has trained at The Kirov Academy of Ballet, The Harid Conservatory, and Houston Ballet’s Ben Stevenson Academy, where he was awarded the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation Scholarship and the Ben Stevenson Scholarship award. In 2004, he won the first annual gold award from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA) and was given the Award of Encouragement at the Shanghai International Ballet Competition.
In 2004, Walsh joined Houston Ballet’s company as a member of the corps de ballet. He was quickly promoted to soloist in 2006 and then to principal dancer in 2007.
Walsh has originated lead roles in Stanton Welch’s The Nutcracker (The Prince), Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Giselle (Albrecht), Marie (Count Axel von Fersen), and La Bayadère (Solor).
He has danced major roles in numerous full-length ballets including John Cranko’s Onegin (Lensky) and The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio), Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon (Des Grieux) and Mayerling (Prince Rudolf), John Neumeier's A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theseus / Oberon, Puck) and The Little Mermaid (The Poet), Sir Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal Gardée (Colas), Ronald Hynd’s The Merry Widow (Camille), Ben Stevenson’s Don Quixote (Basilio), The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Florimund), and Dracula (Fredrick), Sir David Bintley’s Aladdin (Aladdin) and The Tempest (Ferdinand), Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan (Merman), and Stanton Welch’s Swan Lake (Siegfried), Marie (Count Axel Fersen and King Louis XVI), Madame Butterfly (Pinkerton), La Sylphide (James), and Cinderella (The Prince and Dandini).
Walsh’s repertory also includes works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Jiří Kylián, William Forsythe, Justin Peck, Alexander Ekman, Wayne McGregor, Christopher Wheeldon, Twyla Tharp, Hans Van Manen, Glen Tetley, Christopher Bruce, Antony Tudor, Nacho Duato and Serge Lifar, Melissa Barak. One act creations include Stanton Welch, Aszure Barton, Edwaard Liang, Mark Morris, James Kudelka, Nicolo Fonte, Melissa Hough, and Garrett Smith among others.
In recent years Walsh has expanded his reach into teaching, coaching and choreographing. In 2015, along with fellow Houston Ballet company members Oliver Halkowich and Melody Walsh, Walsh founded REACH - a choreographic project that raises money for arts education in schools. Following the success of REACH, Walsh and his colleagues were invited to create a world premiere, entitled What we keep, for Houston Ballet in spring of 2018. Walsh’s world premiere A Joyous Trilogy (in flight) created for Houston Ballet and set to music by Quinn Mason took the Wortham stage on June 2, 2022.
Walsh enjoys teaching, coaching, and choreographing as well as participating in many forms of dance. He is also a soccer fanatic as well as food enthusiast.
The Story
It is Christmas Eve, and the Stahlbaum family is holding their yearly holiday celebration. Their daughter, Clara, is not particularly excited about the holidays this year – a mood not helped by her brother Fritz’s antics.
Meanwhile, inside his workshop, the toymaker Herr Drosselmeyer and his nephew, James, are putting the final touches on a toy Nutcracker. With a flourish of his cape, Drosselmeyer and his nephew are off to the Stahlbaum’s party.
Back at the Stahlbaum’s, the festivities are interrupted by the sudden arrival of Herr Drosselmeyer and James. Drosselmeyer, excited to present his toy inventions, tells the guests of items he has brought back from his travels that have fueled his inspiration: beautiful silks, fanciful jeweled fans, intricate stacking dolls, and more. The excitement builds as Drosselmeyer presents three of his latest creations - lifelike dolls to entertain the guests!
Drosselmeyer offers Clara his beloved Atlas used to document his worldly travels and offers Fritz the Nutcracker doll. Fritz is uninterested in the Nutcracker; Clara, however, is intrigued by the unassuming doll.
Seeing his sister’s interest, Fritz steals the Nutcracker doll and, after a struggle, breaks Drosselmeyer’s new invention. Upset, Clara leaves the party. Realizing that the Nutcracker must be repaired immediately, Drosselmeyer and James hurriedly return to their workshop. As the Governess helps Clara to bed, the sleepy guests depart and Herr Drosselmeyer secretly returns a newly repaired Nutcracker.
Unable to sleep, Clara sneaks down to the living room in search of the Nutcracker. As the clock strikes midnight, mice appear! Drosselmeyer once again enters the scene and casts a magical spell, and Clara finds herself in the middle of a fierce battle between the mice, the Mouse King, the Nutcracker, and his toy soldiers. Seeing the Nutcracker is in danger, Clara distracts the Mouse King, allowing the Nutcracker to make his final attack. The battle won, the Nutcracker is magically transformed into a prince.
Clara and the Nutcracker Prince are then led on a journey filled with snowflakes and sweets. By our story’s end we wonder, was it a dream? We may never know, but Clara will remember her magical holiday adventure for years to come.
The Nutcracker
Grand Pas de Deux – after Marius Petipa
Music:
Choreography and Synopsis:
Coffee Choreography:
Flowers Choreography:
Angels Choreography: Rehearsal Directors:
The Party Act One
Clara Stahlbaum
Charlotte Kim**, Lydia Ovuka*
Her Brother, Fritz
William Ford
Mrs. Stahlbaum
Katie Weigl Strain
Dr. Stahlbaum
Damien Suttles
Herr Drosselmeyer
Austin St. John (Th/Fr), Jamison Foreman (Sa/Su)
Nephew/Prince
Theodore Marvin**, Luke Summers *
Governess
Sabrina Huffman Cohn
Clara’s Friends
Cora Bragg*, Rose Cobucci**, Julia Garbaliauskas**, Amelia Love**, Natalie Mehaffey*, MacKayla Natalini**, Ellie Robb*, Anya Yeow*
Peter Tchaikovsky
Matthew Powell
Constance Walsh
Nancie Woods
Lynne Mulligan, Constance Walsh
Melanie Riffee, Elizabeth Spatz
Party Children
Emily Allen*, Azra Bebek**, Campbell Bray*, Avi Caceres-Rubio*, Yasmine Fisher**, Paul Gould, Samantha Hobbs*, Beatrice Huber**, Everly Johnson**, Eric Kaplan, Lena Kaufmann*, Asha Nath*, Caelan Ocasio-Christian, Bridget Pittinger*, Charlotte Reed*, Liesl Schildknecht**, Hallie Schneider**, Rebecca Schneider**, Margaret Stoll**, Beck Swain
Party Guests
Hiromi Akiyama, Ben Cavanaugh, Andrew Enriquez (Sat/Sun), Jon Erdman, Patrick Huber (Thu/Fri), Erik Koster, Veronica Robertson, Yuko Ruch, Erin Smith
MarjanMcNulty**,ArzuYavuz* with JuliaGarbaliauskas,NatalieMehaffey,MacKaylaNatalini
Tea
JeilaForonda**,ElleryHughes* with MilanaBrooker,CaraBrown,KeiraFattouh,JulianaRobbins
Trepak
EvieHall*,CarolineLee** with AmeliaLove,EllieRobb,CeciliaWear,AnyaYeow
Marzipan
VictoriaColombo-Salinas**, MaevaFelix* with CoraBragg,RoseCobucci
Mother Ginger Damien Suttles
Chef
Saron Lawrence**, Audrey Vick*
Bakers
Sasha Hernandez de los Rios**, Joanna Gilkey*, Claudia Kandies*, Clara Koster, Mary Lawrence**, Sofia Le*, Cheshmei Lin*, Cecilia Mills*, Charlotte Montague**, Mila Petrovska**, Claudia Rozell**, Karoline Slone*, Victoria Umana*, Lyda Wentzell**, Willow Wilhelm**
Polichinelles
Adriana Anderson, Luna Alvarado Jimenez, Sonia Chauvenet, Ann Chen, Sloane Cowart, Sloane Jackson, Helen Grace Pipke, Fabiola Silva-Acuna
The Flower Faerie
Megan Buch**, Alexa Salas*
Flowers
Jocelyn Allen, Megan Buch*, Victoria Colombo-Salinas*, Maeva Felix**, Jeila Foronda*, Zoe Gardner, Evie Hall**, Ellery Hughes**, Caroline Lee*, Marjan McNulty*, Evangeline Nammo**, Dee Dee Quigley*, Alexa Salas**, Amelia Waldman**
Artistic Director:
Stage Manager:
Lighting Design:
Set Design:
Costume Mistress:
Costume Design:
Technical Director:
Cinematography:
Props Master:
House Manager:
Photography: Programs:
Concessions:
Lead Usher:
Catering:
Nutcracker Treasures:
Costuming Assistants:
Stage Crew:
Production Staff
Matthew Powell
Kathleen Warr
AnnMarie Castrigno
Brian Anderson, Kip Desch, Ross Kaplan, Matthew Powell
Sally Finley
Candy Braden, Sally Finley, Nancie Woods
Brian Anderson
Michael Mench
Ross Kaplan
Carmita Signes
Ruth Judson
Lisa Medici
Joshua Waldman, Sarah Waldman
Kate Pipke
Laura Nammo
Virginia Buch, Heather Jones, Audrey Rubio
Candy Braden, Pia Nash, Amelia Shelton
Special thanks to Terrie Sothy for donating a tutu
Sara Fisher, Nadia Hobbs, Ethan Jones, Ross Kaplan, Mia Kim, Linda Mench, Avner Quigley, Michael Schneider, Lacey Slone, Timothy Stoll
The School
Since 1981, BalletNova Center for Dance (formerly Arlington Center for Dance) has been one of Metro DC’s premier dance education organizations. BalletNova offers over 150 classes and workshops to more than 1400 students, seven days a week. Although BalletNova’s primary focus is on ballet, classes are offered in other styles, including contemporary, jazz, modern, and tap.
BalletNova offers year-round programs designed for dancers at all levels, including an intensive pre-professional ballet curriculum. For adult students seeking a creative outlet and quality instruction, BalletNova provides an encouraging yet challenging environment, offering one of the most comprehensive adult class programs in the region.
From professional dancers to people seeking personal enrichment and exercise, BalletNova provides excellent training at all levels. Individual attention, detailed instruction and correction, and an emphasis on maintaining a healthy approach to the demanding dance disciplines are all hallmarks of BalletNova’s teaching philosophy. In 2014, BalletNova received the Youth America Grand Prix Award for Outstanding Studio.
The Artistic Staff
Artistic Director
Matthew Powell
Associate Artistic Director
Constance Walsh
Faculty
David Arce, Candy Braden, Cindy Bragg, Colleen Buck, Silvia Burstein-Hendi, Sabrina Cohn, Shu-Chen Cuff, Leslie Durand, Rachel Goldberg, Courtney Lapenta, Abby Leithart, Kimberly Martin, Jeremy McShan, Lisa Medici, Amanda Melrose-Smith, Harriet Moncure Fellows, Lynne Mulligan, Tessa O’Hara, Melanie Riffee, Becky Sorto, Elizabeth Spatz, Austin St. John, Veronique Kim Tran, Irina Wunder, Gab Yan-Calderon
Accompanists
Jamison Foreman, Matteo Mangialetti, Linda Mench
Many thanks to BalletNova’s faculty for their excellent instruction and dedication to the training of our students in the art of dance.
Management Staff
Managing Director: Finance:
Development Manager & Outreach Coordinator: Program Manager:
Facility
Carmita Signes
Hassan Sultan Elizabeth Spatz
Lisa Medici
BalletNova Center for Dance is housed in a state-of-the-art 20,800 square foot facility in the Bailey’s Crossroads area of Falls Church, Virginia. The six spacious studios (ranging in size from 865 to 2,500 square feet) feature top of the line Harlequin sprung flooring, 16-foot ceilings, and wide, uninterrupted space.
BalletNova provides changing rooms for adults and children, a waiting room with free WiFi, and plentiful parking free of charge. BalletNova rents studio space to local and national dance companies, providing the dance community with exceptional rehearsal, class, and studio performance space.
The Fredgren Studio Theatre opened in September 2014, and is open to the local arts community as a performance venue designed specifically, but not exclusively, for dance. The Fredgren Theatre is named after BalletNova’s founders, Kathryn and Kenneth Fredgren.
To inquire about studio rentals, theatre rentals, or other special events, please contact Rentals@BalletNova.org.
Mission, Vision, and Values
Mission. To provide unparalleled training and education for our dancers by offering the finest in programming and events as the premier center for dance excellence in Northern Virginia.
Vision. A nationally-recognized ballet conservatory that honors the past, embraces the now, and celebrates the future.
Values.
Artistry. BalletNova is a school with artistry and heart. Dedication. Our dancers emerge from BalletNova with confidence, discipline, and the utmost sense of artistry, whether or not they enter the dance profession.
Community. An arts organization is only as strong as its surrounding community. By building healthy and diverse relationships among students, Board members, parents, patrons, and other brave ambassadors of the arts, we honor BalletNova as a national institution and elevate our passion for the art we love.
The Board
The BalletNova Center for Dance Board of Directors welcomes you to our production of The Nutcracker. We are exceedingly proud of our Artistic Director, our choreographers, our inspirational teaching staff, our dedicated legion of volunteers, and of course, our talented dancers.
President: Kimberly Notarianni
Vice President: Surayyah F. Colbert, Esq.
Secretary: Sandra Jenkins
Treasurer: Linda Winston
Past President: Cathy Campbell
Members at Large: Jennifer Atkin
Adrienne Geis
Rebecca Grutz
Interested in Serving on the Board?
BalletNova is looking for civic-minded leaders who would like to serve on our Board of Directors. If you have a passion for the arts and want the opportunity to partner with other community leaders to help fulfill the mission of BalletNova, please email a cover letter and your resume to: president@ balletnova.org and include the following in the email subject line: “Last name, first name – Board Director.” Thank you for your interest!
Next Steps...
Help BalletNova take its next steps as we look to the future and…
Expand our reach into the community with additional performances and classes in schools and community centers
Continue to make improvements to the BalletNova facility
Increase educational opportunities for children and adults with additional workshops and master classes
BalletNova is a critical part of the DC region’s arts infrastructure. Our spacious studios and black box theatre provide space for individual artists, performing arts organizations and community partners for classes and performances. BalletNova’s six gorgeous studios and a fully-equipped black box theatre, named the Fredgren Theatre after our founders, supports our own performances as well as local artists’ productions.
BalletNova is honored to be a grantee of ARTSFAIRFAX and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. We hope you will follow their lead and help us take our next steps with a donation today.
Support BalletNova
BalletNova helps people from all across our region achieve their dreams of dancing.
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Donors and Contributors
October 25, 2023 - October 25, 2024
Diamond Circle ($50,000 and above) Virginia Commission for the Arts
Ruby Circle ($25,000 and above) ARTSFAIRFAX
Gold Allegro Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Capital Bank
Silver Pirouette ($1,000 - $2,499)
Anonymous, Marilyn Barner, Julie and David Brown, Cathy Campbell, Lian Duffy, Matthew Fontaine, Sarah Franz, Wendy Frieman, Ross and Kayla Kaplan, In honor of Heather Sell Karl, Kristen McAhren, Linda and Tor Winston
Bronze Arabesque ($500 - $999)
Anonymous, Hang Nguyen and Dave Bray, Adrienne Cannon, Kara and Bharath Nath, Dr. and Mrs. Michael Notarianni, In honor of all the wonderful teachers, Wegner CPAs LLP
Benefactor ($250 - $499)
Anonymous, Catherine Elwell, Rose Gottemoeller, In honor of Ellery Hughes, In honor of Katie Klein, Christopher and Kakuti Lin, Mathers Family, Elizabeth Robbins, Terrie Sothy, Linda Sparke, Hung Trinh
Patron ($100 - $249)
The Acker Family, Natalie Addison, Anonymous, Louise Arnheim, Blackbaud Giving Fund, in memory of Beverly Dawkins, Kuehne Family, Mary Garnett, Jennifer Gilkey, Joanne Hama, Deborah Herzfeld, Laura Holtry-Hughes, Pamela Hughes, Lois Jentsch, Ann Kirbabas, Martha and Justin Kopca, Brian and Julie Lathrop, Chris Luckscheiter, Anne McAllister, Donna Murray, Laura Nammo, Frances D. Park-Stryk, Chris Pittinger, The Rives Family, The Robb Family, Jessica Rogers, Claire Sheng, Nga Smith, Dorothy Taft, In honor of the wonderful adult program teachers, In honor of Oleg Tupine, Xiomara Umana, United Way Campaign, Sarah & Josh Waldman, Evelyn Watson, Gayle Weiss, Donna Wiedeman
Friends Circle ($50-$99)
Elizabeth Addington, Annalise Ajmani, Anonymous, Ariadne Autor, Sylvia Browne, Martha Byron, Surayyah Colbert, Argery Cooke, Ben D'Avanzo, Leilani Foronda, Douglas Freeman, Scott Geary, Christine Harrison, Heather Jones, Susan Kaput, Susan Koch, Le Petit Salon, Walzer Lee, Stacy Leff, Shanna Miceli, Robin O'Hara, Fahad Qureshi, Gail Regina, Anita Rogers, James Selway, Samantha Sewall, In honor of Elizabeth Spatz, Ashley Van Meter, Bianca Warner, Elizabeth Wolf
BalletNova would like to thank the many donors who have supported the organization throughout the years. We wouldn’t be where we are today without your generosity.
We sincerely regret any typographical errors or omissions.
Circles of Giving
Diamond Circle - $50,000 and above
Ruby Circle - $25,000-$49,999
Emerald Circle - $10,000-$24,999
Sapphire Circle - $5,000-$9,999
Gold Allegro Circle - $2,500-$4,999
Silver Pirouette Circle - $1,000-$2,499
Bronze Arabesque Circle - $500-$999
Patron Circle - $100-$249
Friend Circle - Up to $99
Sponsorships
Special thanks to our sponsors
Sponsors can choose to support performances like The Nutcracker and our spring show and/or outreach efforts (free ticket program, financial aid, scholarships, free community performances). Sponsorship opportunities start at $1,000. Contact espatz@balletnova.org for more information.
BalletNova in the Community
Did you know that BalletNova dancers perform at K-12 schools, assisted living centers and area festivals? These important outreach activities help BalletNova fulfill its mission to bring dance to as many in the community as possible. Your donations help us achieve our outreach goals, reaching people who otherwise would not have access to live performances. Thank you to the BalletNova community for making this possible!
Step into a vibrant world of adventure and romance with BalletNova’s Don Quixote.
Saturday, April 12 and Sunday, April 13, 2025
Capital One Hall 7750 Capital One Tower Road Tysons, Virginia 22102
Thank You
To our army of volunteers: You have chaperoned mice and angels, fitted costumes, set the stage, coordinated details, sold treasures, seated guests, worked backstage, made dinners for dancers, and assisted with many, many other tasks to make this production a success. We could not do it without YOU!
