UNCSA 2023 "The Nutcracker" Program

Welcomes You to UNCSA’S “THE NUTCRACKER”

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UN I V ER S I T Y O F N O R TH C A R OLI NA SC H O O L O F THE A R TS BRIAN COL E Chancellor

THE NUTC RAC K ER A BA L L E T I N T WO AC TS Music by PYOT R I LYI C H TC H A I KOVS KY Choreographed and Directed by ILYA KOZ A DAYE V Executive Director ENDA LYN T. OU T L AW Assistant Director L AURA M A RT I N Répétiteurs DAYN A FOX, BR I T T J U L E E N GO N Z A L E Z, L AURA M A RT I N, JAR E D R E DI C K , ANG E L I N A SA NS O NE , M IK HA I L TC HOU PA KOV, J E N N E T Z E R B E Guest Lighting Designer PEN N Y JACO BU S Production Stage Manager C HLOE LUP I N I Dean, School of Dance ENDA LYN T. OU T L AW Dean, School of Design & Production M ICHA E L KEL L E Y Dean, School of Music SAXTO N ROSE Featuring THE UN C SA SYM P H O N Y O R C H E ST R A Conducted by BRIAN COL E

D EC E M B E R 7–10, 2023 STE V EN TA N G E R C E NT E R FOR T HE P E RFO R MI NG ARTS

PRESENTED BY

On behalf of the residents of Greensboro and the Greensboro City Council, it is my pleasure to extend a warm and cordial welcome to those attending “The Nutcracker.” The Tanger Center is thrilled to be hosting — for the first time — the University of North Carolina School of the Arts’ presentation of “The Nutcracker,” December 7-10 at the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts. This joint venture between our two cities is another shining example of how Greensboro, Winston-Salem and other cities in the Piedmont Triad can work together to make great things happen for all of us. Bringing this wonderful holiday tradition to our state-of-theart Tanger Center will provide the opportunity for more people to experience this beloved holiday tradition. We look forward to working closely with the University of North Carolina School of the Arts to host the biggest and most spectacular version of “The Nutcracker” to the Tanger Center stage.

Again, we welcome you to our City! We hope your stay in Greensboro will be a pleasant one and we encourage your return.

Sincerely,

Nancy Vaughan Mayor of Greensboro

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts is an incredibly special place — there is no other place like it in the country. Not only is it a top-ranked creative and performing arts conservatory; it also was the first public arts conservatory in the United States, founded in 1963 in Winston-Salem. UNCSA is a complete ecosystem of the arts where virtually every facet of the arts and entertainment industry is happening every day, in dance, drama, design and production, filmmaking and music. One of UNCSA’s largest productions each year takes place in December, featuring the remarkable talents of young artists in the beloved holiday classic “The Nutcracker.” The production is taking place this year at the Tanger Center while its traditional home at UNCSA’s historic Stevens Center in downtown Winston-Salem is undergoing a long-awaited and much-deserved renovation. On behalf of the citizens of Winston-Salem, we thank Greensboro for serving as the temporary home of “The Nutcracker” and for providing UNCSA students with the invaluable experience of mounting and performing a production in the beautiful, state-of-the art venue at the Tanger Center.

Best wishes to everyone in Winston-Salem, Greensboro and the entire Piedmont Triad for a wonderful holiday season.

Sincerely,

Allen Joines Mayor of Winston-Salem

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DEAR GUESTS, I am pleased to welcome you to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts’ 58th annual production of the “The Nutcracker,” being presented for the first time at the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts.

We’re here in Greensboro because our home theater, the Roger L. Stevens Center in downtown Winston-Salem, closed temporarily on Nov. 15 for a long-awaited comprehensive renovation. While it was a challenge to find an alternative venue that could accommodate the size and scope of the backstage needed for our (spoiler alert!) magical Christmas tree and other scenic elements, it turned into an opportunity to reach new audiences across the Piedmont Triad while allowing the university to continue one of its most important production experiences for students.

The UNCSA schools of Dance, Design and Production, and Music collaborate to produce the show, with advanced students performing on- and off-stage, mentored and supervised by a distinguished faculty of practicing professional artists.

That is the concept behind UNCSA, the nation’s first and the state’s only resident public school dedicated exclusively to training professional artists. Founded in

Winston-Salem in 1963, opened in 1965, and included in the UNC System in 1972, UNCSA prepares emerging artists for careers in dance, design and production, drama, filmmaking, and music at the undergraduate through post-graduate levels, as well as through a specialized high school with free tuition for in-state residents.

I hope you enjoy this presentation of “The Nutcracker,” which features exciting choreography by talented UNCSA faculty member Ilya Kozadayev. The UNCSA Symphony Orchestra will perform the familiar and well-loved score by Tchaikovsky, which I have the privilege to conduct this year.

I invite you to return or travel anew to Winston-Salem to experience the multitude of performances and productions happening every week at UNCSA, and continue to attend performances at the magnificent Tanger Center here in Greensboro. The arts are for everyone, and our region is so rich with amazing opportunities to be inspired!

Sincerely,

BRIAN COLE

Chancellor, UNCSA

W E LCO ME

DEAR FRIENDS, The holiday season is a truly magical time, as families, friends and loved ones come together to celebrate cherished traditions.

With great enthusiasm, I extend a warm welcome to what has become a beloved tradition in Winston-Salem, now expanding its reach into the Triad community: the 2023 production of UNCSA’s “Nutcracker.”

who consistently deliver a professionalcaliber show like no other.

This year, as we again enjoy the complete score, a fully realized Party Scene, and the beloved character Mother Ginger, “The Nutcracker” promises to fill your hearts with joy and inspire visions of sugarplums dancing in your head.

Lastly, I extend my heartfelt gratitude to you for being a part of our “Nutcracker” tradition.

Your presence, your smiles, your laughter and your appreciation for the performers, who put their hearts and souls into every performance, mean the world to us.

Our production for this year will once again feature the participation of every student from the School of Dance ballet program, along with students from the contemporary program, the School of Music, and the School of Design and Production. It’s a privilege for both me and our dedicated faculty to support and nurture these talented and gifted students.

Thank you for choosing to make “The Nutcracker” a part of your holiday traditions.

We look forward to sharing this magical experience with you and hope that it brings warmth and joy to your holiday season.

The success of this exceptional production is a result of the collaborative efforts of UNCSA faculty, students, staff and administrators

We are also delighted to welcome back guest Lighting Designer Penny Jacobus.

With her industry expertise and excellence, she enhances our “Nutcracker” to reach new heights.

Sincerely,

ENDALYN T. OUTLAW

Dean, School of Dance

THE TALE OF THE NUTCRACKER On Christmas Eve, in a small workshop, Drosselmeyer, a clockmaker by trade, is finishing crafting a magical Nutcracker doll with the help of their apprentice nephew. Meanwhile, the Silverhaus family is hosting its annual Christmas party, attended by friends and neighbors from its small Prussian community. The Silverhaus children, Clara and Fritz, are enjoying the holiday festivities of tree decorating and dancing when the family’s longtime friend, and Clara’s godparent, Drosselmeyer, arrives with an extraordinary surprise.

Drosselmeyer has a parental fondness for Clara and wants nothing more than for her to have a wonderful and magical life. In the hopes that a connection might spark, Drosselmeyer brings their nephew to the party to meet Clara. At the height of the festivities, Drosselmeyer asks their nephew to present the newly crafted Nutcracker doll to Clara. Her brother, Fritz, becomes jealous and breaks the doll. Clara is distraught, but Drosselmeyer comforts her by repairing the broken doll, while casting a magic spell on the Nutcracker. Drosselmeyer tells Clara that the doll needs rest to recover.

As the party winds down and Clara and Drosselmeyer’s nephew say good night to each another, they sense a connection. Clara is sent to bed, but, unable to contain her excitement about her new gift, sneaks back into the living room and falls asleep on the couch, embracing the Nutcracker doll.

During the night, Clara awakes to attend to her Nutcracker. Suddenly, giant mice enter the living room and attack Clara and her Nutcracker doll! She is saved by the unexpected appearance of Drosselmeyer, who sets a magic spell into motion. The Nutcracker comes to life in the form of Drosselmeyer’s nephew, and he and Clara embark on a wondrous journey this Christmas Eve. Together, they brave the terrifying Mouse King and his gang of mice, witness magnificent beauty in the forest of the Snowflakes, and enjoy the warmth of spirit in the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier’s Kingdom in the Land of Sweets. The pair enjoy sweets with Chocolate, Coffee, Tea, Marzipan and a Trepak dance. They dance the Waltz of the Flowers with Dewdrop.

The story ends as the two adventurers depart the Land of Sweets after a grand finale, and Clara wakes up back in her living room, having fallen off the couch. As she finds her Nutcracker doll, Clara wonders if her journey was, in fact, a wonderful dream.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

ILYA KOZADAYEV

ENDALYN T. OUTLAW

Ilya Kozadayev, originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, received his dance training from Vaganova Ballet Academy; School of American Ballet; Academy of Colorado Ballet; and John Cranko Ballet Academy in Stuttgart, Germany.

Kozadayev danced professionally, performing an array of international repertoire, as a soloist with Colorado Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, the Houston Ballet and as a dancer with Boston Ballet. Kozadayev was a winner of the New York International Ballet Competition.

He began choreographing for Boston Ballet’s Raw Dance and went on to create ballets for Houston Ballet’s choreographic showcase and original work for Houston Ballet II, Kansas City Ballet, Festival Ballet of Providence, Milwaukee Ballet II, Oklahoma Festival Ballet, Ballet Arkansas, Tulsa Ballet II, Contemporary Dance Oklahoma, University of Utah School of Dance and UNCSA, among others. In 2015, Kozadayev won the Ballet Arkansas Visions Choreography Competition. In 2017, he created an original version of “Romeo and Juliet” for Festival Ballet Providence that Broadway World hailed as “nothing short of a masterpiece, an absolute triumph for the dancers and artistic team involved in its creation.” Kozadayev’s original choreography has been performed in the United States, Germany, Austria and France. He was a finalist in the National Choreographers Initiative.

In 2019, his original choreography for UNCSA was performed at Lincoln Center for the Youth America Grand Prix gala. In 2020, Kozadayev co-directed, wrote and choreographed a film version of “The Nutcracker” for UNCSA during the COVID-19 pandemic, collaborating with three other arts schools on campus in addition to the School of Dance. He went on to expand the 30-minute choreography for the film into a full-length, two-act production for UNCSA in 2021. Prior to joining UNCSA in 2017, Kozadayev served as assistant professor of ballet at the University of Oklahoma School of Dance. He holds an M.F.A. from Jacksonville University.

Dancer, choreographer and educator Endalyn T. Outlaw (née Taylor) is the dean of the School of Dance at UNCSA. She has held the positions of director of Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) School in New York — a company she joined in 1984, becoming a principal dancer in 1993 — and director of the Cambridge Summer Art Institute in Massachusetts. Her extensive administrative, artistic and academic career is steeped in ballet pedagogy, and she has created an eclectic body of choreographic works. With more than 25 years of teaching experience, she has built an arsenal of pedagogic tools and core values that cultivate artistry, mentoring and versatility, and celebrate inclusionary ideals, policies and systems. Outlaw excels at restaging ballets, having performed many of the classics and having worked with luminaries in the field including DTH founder Arthur Mitchell, British-American ballet dancer and choreographer Frederick Franklin, director and choreographer of LINES Ballet Alonzo King, American dancer and choreographer Agnes de Mille, and director and choreographer of Garth Fagan Dance and “The Lion King,” Garth Fagan. She has performed on Broadway and stages all over the world, including as an original cast member of Tony Award-winning Broadway productions of “The Lion King,” “Aida” and “Carousel.” Prior to joining UNCSA in 2021, she served six years at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she taught ballet and musical theater as an associate professor of dance. In 2020 she was appointed the Dean’s Fellow for Black Arts Research.

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CHOREOGRAPHER AND DIRECTOR

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CONDUCTOR

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AND RÉPÉTITEUR

BRIAN COLE

LAURA MARTIN

An accomplished conductor, UNCSA Chancellor Brian Cole has led orchestras and operas throughout the United States, Europe, South America and the Caribbean. Cole has conducted extensively in Spain, where he served four years as the founding dean of academic affairs at Berklee College of Music’s campus in Valencia. These ensembles include La Banda Primitiva de Lliria, Centre de Perfeccionament Plácido Domingo, Pala de les Arts, and Orquesta de Córdoba. He has also conducted extensively in Puerto Rico, where he served seven years as associate dean of academic affairs at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music, conducting the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra and the Lyric Opera Theater of Puerto Rico. In South America, additional conducting engagements have included regular engagements with the Orquesta de Concepción in Chile and the Orquestas Juveniles de Venezuela “Simon Bolivar.”

Cole has conducted the Pärnu Linnaorkester in Pärnu, Estonia, where he also conducted the Moscow Chamber Orchestra and the Edinburgh Youth Orchestra. The 2023 “Nutcracker” marks Cole’s fourth time on the podium with the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra since joining UNCSA as dean of the School of Music in August 2016. In November 2016, Cole conducted Stravinsky’s “Firebird Finale” to conclude the Second Annual Collage Concert at the Stevens Center. In December 2017, he conducted the “The Nutcracker” for the first time, also at the Stevens Center, and then again in 2018.

Cole has served the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as conducting assistant and as assistant conductor for the May Festival. He has held the positions of assistant conductor and director of education and outreach programs for the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, and as music director of the Concert Orchestra of the University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music, where he was a doctoral student in orchestral conducting. He received his M.M. in instrumental conducting from the University of Illinois and his B.M. in bassoon performance from Louisiana State University. An innovative, experienced and bilingual arts leader, Brian Cole is the ninth chancellor of UNCSA. Tapped as interim chancellor in August 2019, he was appointed chancellor by the UNC Board of Governors on May 20, 2020.

Laura Martin is a full professor who has served on the faculty at UNCSA since 2010. She was trained primarily at the Washington School of Ballet under the direction of Mary Day, with supplemental training at the Joffrey School and the Chautauqua Institute. Martin went on to join the Washington Ballet, Miami City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre (ABT), where she danced the works of choreographers including George Balanchine, Antony Tudor, Agnes de Mille, Twyla Tharp, Paul Taylor and Martha Graham, as well as most of the classical ballets. Following ABT, Martin was invited to join the Broadway cast of “The Phantom of the Opera.” She finds that teaching at UNCSA provides incredibly rewarding opportunities that continue to deepen her perspective on ballet. In addition to assisting guest artists with the staging and rehearsing of ballets on campus, Martin has staged work internationally.

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DAYNA FOX

JARED REDICK

Dayna Fox received her early ballet training in Columbus, Ohio, at Ballet Met. She also studied with tap and jazz legends Luigi, Patricia Birch and Charles Kelly as well as at UNCSA under such illustrious teachers as the late Melissa Hayden and Duncan Noble. In 1977, Fox joined the North Carolina Dance Theater (NCDT) where she was a featured dancer through 1985. Under the direction of Robert Lindgren and Salvatore Aiello, NCDT performed an eclectic repertoire and toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. In 1989, Fox was named director of UNCSA’s Preparatory Dance Program. During her 25-year tenure, she helped train hundreds of children for the School of Dance’s high school division, many of whom have gone on to have professional careers with dance companies across the U.S. and abroad. Fox became a guest instructor for the School of Dance in 1999, and in 2007 was hired to the full-time ballet faculty, where she currently serves as an associate professor. Fox holds a B.F.A. from UNCSA and is an official répétiteur for the Salvatore Aiello Trust. She has performed the roles of Mrs. Silverhaus and the Grandmother in the UNCSA production of “The Nutcracker” and has been a part of the rehearsal staff since 1990.

School of Dance Assistant Dean Jared Redick began his ballet training with his mother, Julia Cziller Redick, in Reston, Virginia. He is a graduate of the High School ballet program at UNCSA, where he studied with founding Dean of Dance Robert Lindgren. Redick went on to train at Mikhail Baryshnikov’s School of Classical Ballet and at the School of American Ballet. His performance career launched with the San Francisco Ballet, followed by dancing as a soloist with the Miami City Ballet, the Suzanne Farrell Ballet and Boston Ballet. In Boston, he danced a diverse repertoire including principal roles in works by Marius Petipa, John Cranko, George Balanchine, Jorma Elo, Jirí Kylián, William Forsythe, Antony Tudor, Sir Frederick Ashton and Twyla Tharp. Following his retirement from the stage in 2009, Redick has taught nationally and internationally at institutions including Royal Danish Ballet School, Tivoli Ballet Theatre, Houston Ballet School, Orlando Ballet School, Nashville Ballet School, Charlotte Ballet and Yale University.

He served as guest ballet master with Finnish National Ballet, Houston Ballet, Nashville Ballet and Cincinnati Ballet. Redick is a recipient of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Award for Exceptional Artistic Achievement, and in 2012 was appointed associate fellow of Pierson College at Yale University. Since 2013, he has been a judge and master teacher for the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP). For years, he served as director of the annual UNCSA stage production of “The Nutcracker,” named by Dance Teacher magazine as one of the nation’s best productions of the holiday classic. He had the honor and distinction of serving as interim dean of the School of Dance for the 2020–21 school year, and in 2022 was the recipient of both the prestigious Excellence in Teaching Award and the inaugural Academic Leadership Fellowship.

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BRITT JULEEN GONZALEZ Originally from Miami, Florida, Britt Juleen Gonzalez spent most of her 20-year performance career in Europe at the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam and as a first soloist in Germany’s SemperOper Ballet at its exquisite Opera House. She has also performed with Ballet Arizona, Ballet Gamonet and the contemporary dance companies iMEE, Jacoby & Pronk and SFDanceworks. She has performed in works created by leading classical and modern/ contemporary choreographers such as Marius Petipa, William Forsythe, George Balanchine, David Dawson, Krzysztof Pastor, Rudi van Dantzig, Jiri Kylián, Frederick Ashton, Antony Tudor, John Neumeier, Uwe Scholz, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Paul Taylor and many more. Juleen has taught extensively across the San Francisco Bay Area including the company and schools associated with Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Oakland Ballet Company and ODC Dance Company. She served as the artistic director for Berkeley Ballet Theater.

Juleen studied at the School of American Ballet, New World School of the Arts, Pacific Northwest Ballet School and Houston Ballet Academy. She also studied Somatic Movement Education through the School for Body-Mind Centering. She is American Ballet Theatre Teacher Certified. Before joining the UNCSA School of Dance, Juleen was an assistant professor at San Jose State University, University of Iowa, East Carolina University, Saint Mary’s College and Hollins University.

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ANGELINA SANSONE

JENNET ZERBE

Angelina Sansone began her formal ballet training with Charlotte City Ballet in North Carolina. At the age of 14, she left home to attend The Harid Conservatory in Florida on a full tuition scholarship.

After graduating from Harid, she spent two seasons with the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, where she appeared in Robert Altman’s 2003 film, “The Company.” Following Joffrey, Sansone worked toward her B.S. in ballet at Indiana University before accepting a contract with the Kansas City Ballet in 2005. In her 14 seasons with the company, she enjoyed a rich career working with numerous choreographers and performing a wide-ranging repertory of soloist and principal roles. While pursuing her performing career, Sansone maintained an active teaching schedule and participated in a variety of creative projects.

For more than 15 years, she was on staff as ballet teacher with several dance schools and taught as guest faculty across the country. In August 2018, she returned to her home state and proudly joined the ballet faculty at UNCSA. Before beginning her employment, she received her certification from the American Ballet Theatre National Training Curriculum in levels preprimary through five. In addition to her teaching schedule, Sansone has staged multiple pieces and assisted in the creation of new works by Ilya Kozadayev, Stephanie Martinez and Gina Patterson. During her summers since returning to North Carolina, Sansone continues to teach in the regional community, has received her Progressing Ballet Technique certification and, in 2019, traveled to Guangdong, China, as a visiting professor of ballet for the Guangdong University.

Jennet Zerbe believes insightful, rigorous training in classical ballet technique yields versatile dancers for the stage. Zerbe joined the UNCSA faculty in 2014 and has been the primary teacher for the advanced female ballet students in concert with the School of Dance faculty since that time.

Her students have become professional dancers in American Ballet Theatre (ABT), Dance Theatre of Harlem, Northern Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Atlanta Ballet, and Campañia Nacional de Danza, among others. Zerbe trained at The Royal Ballet School in London, where her graduation performance of Odette in “Swan Lake” garnered her an invitation to join ABT, where she danced for eight years under the direction of Mikhail Baryshnikov. After her professional career, Zerbe earned her B.A. from Wellesley College, became an ABT Certified Teacher at the launch of ABT’s National Training Curriculum, and earned her Maestro Enrico Cecchetti Diploma in London.

Her teaching career blossomed under Nancy and Murray Kilgour at the School of Alberta Ballet in Canada where these pedagogical giants shared with Zerbe their expertise in the best ballet techniques, and the means to educate the artists of tomorrow. Zerbe has received a Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts Faculty Leadership Grant and is a recipient of UNCSA’s Excellence in Teaching Award.

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MIKHAIL TCHOUPAKOV Born and raised in Moscow, Misha Tchoupakov performed with the Bolshoi Ballet there as well as with the Colorado Ballet, Sarasota Ballet of Florida, Los Angeles Classical Ballet, and San Francisco Opera Ballet in the USA and the Vienna State Opera Ballet in Austria. Tchoupakov was also on the faculty of The Royal Ballet School, the Elmhurst School for Dance in association with Birmingham Royal Ballet and the English National Ballet School in the U.K. He also served as an assistant professor at the University of Utah Department of Ballet. He has worked with the Youth America Grand Prix ballet and contemporary dance competition in New York as rehearsal director, judge and master teacher, and is an internationally renowned guest teacher, having taught in many top schools in the U.S. and abroad. He holds an M.F.A. in dance pedagogy and choreography from the Moscow State Academy of Choreography. He joined the faculty of the UNCSA School of Dance in 2013.

GUEST LIGHTING DESIGNER

PENNY JACOBUS Penny Jacobus is the former lighting director for the New York City Ballet (NYCB) and was with the company from 2000 to 2018. Additional credits include four world premiere designs for NYCB and designs for Christopher Wheeldon and the Morphoses Dance Company and for Tom Gold Dance. She has also assisted on several Broadway shows. Jacobus has lit dance internationally and was the American lighting supervisor for several Kirov Ballet tours in the U.S. She started her New York City lighting career as the Hemsley Lighting Intern at the New York City Opera. Jacobus holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

“The Nutcracker” is her favorite holiday show and she is grateful for this opportunity to work with the students, faculty and staff at UNCSA.

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COSTUME DESIGNS

HOWARD C. JONES

KATHRYN E. GRILLO

Howard Jones was the director of scene painting and a UNCSA faculty member from 1996 until he retired in 2017. Before that, he was one of the founders of Cobalt Studio, an apprentice painting studio in New York. He was recognized with the Elliott Norton Award in 2000 in Boston and in 2005 at the World Stage Design Expo. He has designed for the North Shore Music Theatre, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Missouri Repertory Theatre, State Ballet of Missouri, Weston Playhouse, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, American Heartland Theatre, Bay Street Theatre, Starlight Theatre, Goodspeed Opera, Royal Ballet New Zealand, Opera Romania in Bucharest, Triad Stage and the Coterie Theatre.

He designed several UNCSA shows, including “West Side Story,” “Oklahoma!” and “She Loves Me.”

Kathryn Grillo, retired director of Dance Costume at UNCSA, began working at UNCSA in 1984 as a costume designer/draper and adjunct faculty member in the School of Design and Production.

After designing several works for the School of Dance she was hired, in 1996, to help craft the costumes for this “Nutcracker” ballet, and her love of dance costumes was sparked. Her dance work at UNCSA included designs for the ballets “Raymonda,” “Don Quixote,” “Rubies” and a number of other Balanchine works, as well as designs for many contemporary pieces by established guest choreographers and UNCSA faculty. She also created designs for the American Dance Festival, Carolina Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theatre, American Ballet Theatre Studio, Ballet Tennessee and Ballet Spartanburg, and she recreated a number of early 20thcentury historical works alongside dancers/ choreographers from those original productions for both Duke University and UNCSA. From 1991 to 2012, aside from her dance work, Grillo was the resident costume designer/coordinator for Piedmont Opera, originating designs for “The Light in the Piazza,” “Les Contes d’Hoffmann,” “La bohème,” “Turandot” (semi-costumed), and other works. For four of those years, she was also resident designer/coordinator for Opera Carolina.

Other design venues include Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Virginia Opera, Opera Tampa and North Carolina Opera. Grillo holds a B.A. from Cornell University and an M.F.A. in costume design and technology from Carnegie Mellon University.

NEW COSTUME DESIGNS

MARISSA MCCULLOUGH Marissa McCullough is director of the Dance Costume Shop and resident costume designer for the School of Dance. In addition to new designs for this production and the 2020 “Nutcracker” film, she has designed for guest choreographers and faculty over the past nine years. Highlights include her designs for Ilya Kozadayev’s “Dream(s)pace,” “Harlequinade,” Stephanie Martinez’s “Wandering On” and Dayna Fox’s “Magnificat.” Before her work for UNCSA, McCullough was a member of the Wardrobe Department for American Ballet Theatre and The Metropolitan Opera, “Forbidden Broadway” and the “American Girl” musical. She holds a B.A. from Marymount Manhattan College.

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SCENIC ELEMENTS

CREATING A WORLD OF MAGIC AND DELIGHT A HISTORY OF THE UNCSA “NUTCRACKER” “The Nutcracker” has been performed annually since 1966. That year, Robert Lindgren, founding dean of the UNCSA School of Dance, and his wife, Sonja Tyven, a School of Dance faculty member, staged “The Nutcracker” at UNCSA for the first time as part of the town of Salem’s 200th anniversary celebration.

Lindgren and Tyven had only three months and $2,500 to make “The Nutcracker” stage ready. Sets were rented from the Washington National Ballet and supplemented by donations of furniture and props. Recordings of Tchaikovsky’s score were collected. The choreography was modeled after what Lev Ivanov and Marius Petipa created for the original production in 1892. The costumes were uniquely UNCSA, envisioned by the school’s then-resident designer, Christina Giannini. “The Nutcracker” was performed

by UNCSA students and faculty for the first time on Dec. 10, 1966, in Reynolds Auditorium, and the audience instantly fell in love.

Since that first performance, the UNCSA “Nutcracker” production has been reimagined, re-created and refreshed numerous times. In Year Two, Giannini designed scenery to match the costumes, the latter of which were used for more than 30 years. The original sets were replaced in 1978 with new designs by Mark Pirolo, then-director of the School of Design and Production (D&P) scene design program. Other than a move to the newly refurbished Stevens Center in 1983, the production remained largely unchanged until the late ’90s.

In 1998, “The Nutcracker’’ received a significant overhaul. UNCSA D&P alumnus Campbell Baird updated most of the production’s costumes, which harkened back to their 1960s origin. Baird also revamped the sets, and alumnus John McKernon created new lighting, giving a fresh look and feel to the Twin City’s beloved ballet.

The production was reimagined once again in 2009, when Ethan Stiefel, then dean of the UNCSA School of Dance, developed new choreography for the ballet with three faculty members. Although many of the production materials from the ’90s are still used today, the new staging required several costume and prop changes. Kathryn Grillo and Carolyn Fay, both former directors of the Dance Costume Shop, designed new looks for Clara, the Sugar Plum Fairy, her Cavalier Prince and Mother Ginger. They also added a corps of Baby Mice. Howard Jones, then-Design and Production’s director of scenic art and scene painting, contributed new scenic elements, including the glorious growing Christmas tree.

New lighting was added by D&P alumnus Brad Fields, resident lighting designer for American Ballet Theatre. Also in 2009, the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra, composed of students from the School of Music, served as the production’s pit orchestra for the first time. The Winston-Salem Symphony had been providing live music for the school’s “Nutcracker” since 1969.

Almost all the Sugar Plums and Cavaliers who danced in the UNCSA “Nutcracker” later joined professional companies — many of them as soloists and principal dancers. UNCSA alumna Gillian Murphy (High School Dance ’96), principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, is one of several alumni who have returned to reprise these featured roles. Other renowned guest artists, such as Julie Kent and David Hallberg, have also graced the Stevens Center stage in “The Nutcracker.”

The year 2020 presented challenges like never before as UNCSA acclimated to limitations from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The classic work was abridged and adapted/choreographed specifically for film through a unique collaboration among the schools of Dance, Filmmaking, Music, and Design and Production.

That “Nutcracker” featured all-new choreography by faculty member Ilya Kozadayev while retaining favorite scenes and characters from the traditional stage production. Magical touches created through visual effects and animation brought the story to life for audiences worldwide. View the 30-minute film at uncsa.edu/nutcracker.

This year’s “Nutcracker” — choreographed

by Kozadayev in 2021, and expanded in 2022 to include the complete score, the boisterous Party Scene and the beloved Mother Ginger — is a reimagining of the original stage production. Clara and her Nutcracker Prince are front and center along with the Sugar Plum Fairy, Snowflakes and Flowers, as well as the showstopping Trepak. Constantly reinventing itself is how UNCSA is finding innovative ways to provide gifted emerging artists with the experience, knowledge and skills to excel in their disciplines, preparing them to shape the future of the arts and entertainment industry.

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UNCSA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA UNCSA DEAN OF MUSIC Saxton Rose UNCSA CHANCELLOR AND CONDUCTOR Brian Cole VIOLIN Olga Zaitas, Concertmaster Nathan Thomeer, Associate Concertmaster Ruth Kelley, Assistant Concertmaster Ryan Keith, Principal Second Rosie Nelson, Assistant Principal Second Lara Mršnik Čemažar Kennedy Graves Sara Krank Sebastian Leczky Gabriel Mendoza Tabitha Metz Sara Palacios Isabelle Parker Julia Rabinalek Julian Walther Jingyi Wei Daisy Zhou Marina Zimmerman VIOLA Joshua Forbes, Principal Arina Komarova, Assistant Principal Ava Hirko Isabella Okhotina Hehe Qi David Rankin CELLO Donavan Vega, Principal Johanna Di Norcia, Assistant Principal Gustavo Antoniacomi Sophie Lyman DOUBLE BASS Simon Vazquez-Carr, Principal Michael Stratford, Assistant Principal PICCOLO Boroka Boisen, Principal FLUTE Daniel Peña-Cruz, Principal Ariel Collins OBOE Margaret Williams, Principal Lauren Derflinger ENGLISH HORN Adrian Gonzolez, Principal

GREENSBORO YOUTH CHORUS CONCERT CHOIR CLARINET Ruslan Usaev, Principal Ryan Holland BASS CLARINET Nick Copeland, Principal BASSOON Baron Thor Young, Principal CJ Claggett HORN Amanda Friedman, Principal Nathan Olusemire Wyatt Gibson Chase Oncken Kyle Coleman (assistant) TRUMPET Nico McLaurin, Principal Samuel Santiago TROMBONE Patrick Sweet, Principal Reagan Henderson BASS TROMBONE Mason Waterman, Principal TUBA Avery Greene, Principal HARP Lucy Hester, Principal CELESTA Haowen Chang, Principal PERCUSSION (seating rotates) Ricky Hinojosa Thompson Jones Garrett Strauss ENSEMBLES FACULTY/STAFF Mark Norman, Director of Instrumental Ensembles Ken Wilmot, Director of Artistic Operations ENSEMBLES PRODUCTION/OPERATIONS GRADUATE ASSISTANTS Gabriel Mendoza Daniel Peña-Cruz Yiming Zhao Olga Zaiats ENSEMBLES LIBRARY GRADUATE ASSISTANTS Chase Thornhill Marina Zimmerman

LJ Martin, Conductor Jiawei Tschu, Rehearsal Accompanist Arjun Arunprasad Aiden Beane Olivia Gutierrez Miriam Hall Helena Henshaw Audrey Holt Charlotte Howes Phoebe Lu Clara Meixner Zahra Pitts Aarna Sharma Elena Smith Caroline Starrett Emma Vinson

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The Christmas tree is illuminated through a custom, student designed and built LED system. Over 300 individual, wirelessly controlled RGB pixels are used to create the flames and the twinkling lights. Forty-five painted ornaments ranging in size from 3 inches to 16 inches add to the beauty.

It took 18,000 hours to complete the construction and painting of the original scenery and props, all of which was done by students, faculty, staff and alumni from the School of Design and Production.

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Since 1966, UNCSA’s beloved production of “The Nutcracker” has been entertaining audiences in Winston-Salem, and now it’s set to captivate the hearts of the Piedmont Triad at the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts in Greensboro.

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