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  • Can’t Miss Holiday Events in Utica, Cortland, and Endicott This December

    Throughout the winter season, historic venues across Central New York present holiday show offerings to keep up with the Christmas festivities. The most popular event being Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker; it wasn’t until the 1960s that performances of this ballet really took off as an annual Christmas tradition. This year, there will be many popular holiday events preformed in places such as Utica, Cortland, and Endicott this December.  

    Holiday Events in Utica, Cortland, and Endicott This December

    EPAC Nutcracker with the FUSE Dance Center of Binghamton

    Established in 1998, The Endicott Performing Arts Center provides a high quality performing arts venue to local, regional, and touring artists. Thus, enabling their students to present, develop, and improve their artistic efforts. This season, EPAC presents four performances of “The Nutcracker” December 9th, 10th, and 11th. With the amazing dancers from The FUSE Dance Center of Binghamton, teaming up with the EPAC Repertory Company, ‘The Nutcracker’ has become a holiday tradition that you don’t want to miss. 

    Four performances are held on Friday December 9 at 7pm, Saturday, December 10 at 2pm and 7pm, and Sunday, December 11 at 2pm.

    Tickets are $20 Adults / $18 Seniors and Children.

    For more information, reserve seating, and to purchase tickets, click the link here.

    Holiday Events in Utica, Cortland, and Endicott This December
    Photo credit to Matt Ossowski

    Upcoming Concerts and Events at The Stanley Theatre 

    This holiday season, there will be many upcoming shows you won’t want to miss at The Stanley Theatre. The most popular being The Nutcracker which the Board of Directors and Artistic Director, Melissa Larish, have endeavored to make the production unique, through major investments in sets, costumes, choreography, lighting and guest artists. Other shows like Mannheim Steamroller Christmas, Home Alone, and A Charlie Brown Christmas will all be held throughout December.  

    The Nutcracker 

    December 2nd | 7:00 p.m. 

    December 3rd | 7:00 p.m. 

    December 4th | 2:00 p.m. 

    Mannheim Steamroller Christmas 

    December 7th | 7:30 p.m. 

    Home Alone (1990) 

    December 8th | 6:30 p.m. 

    A Charlie Brown Christmas 

    December 20th | 7:00 p.m. 

    Cortland Rep Downtown Holiday Events

    Cortland Repertory Theatre Downtown, located at 24 Port Watson Street in Cortland, offers an exciting and festive December of holiday shows and events. For the first time since 2019, CRT is offering a weekend of photos with Santa, on Saturday, December 3rd from 10:00am-12:00pm and 2:00pm-4:00pm, and on Sunday, December 4th from 1:00pm–3:00pm. Along with this, they will also be offering a Holiday Broadway Brunch on December 10th, a performance by The Rave-On’s December 11th, Third Thursday Trivia on December 15th, and more to come. 

    Holiday Broadway Brunch  

    December 10th at 11:00am 

    The Rave-Ons 

    December 10th at 7:30pm and December 11th at 2:00pm 

    Third Thursday Trivia  

    December 15 at 7:00pm 

    The Story of Ebenezer Scrooge by The Traveling Lantern Children’s Theatre Company 

    December 17th at 11:00am 

    Dancin’ Thru the Decades New Year’s Eve Community Dance  

    December 31st at 9:00pm 

    For more information or to purchase tickets to any of these events, please visit the link here.

  • Central Park Dance to Perform Nutcracker at The Capitol Theatre

    Central Park Dance will return to The Capitol Theatre with their annual production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker on Sunday, December 11th at 12:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. With more than 100 students from the school, professional dancers and young dancers from the surrounding communities, audiences will have two chances to enjoy this timeless tale. 

    Central Park Dance

    In celebrating a legacy that has spanned across more than four decades, Central Park Dance has made its mark on the Westchester dance community. As a producer of original ballets, they invite their all levels to participate. Dancers of all ages will make up their large ensemble of performers, spanning from the littlest mouse to the blizzard of snowflakes.

    Central Park Dance Performs Nutcracker at The Capitol Theatre

    This year, the production will welcome back American Ballet Theatre soloist Luciana Paris to dance the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy, along with her Cavalier Jose Sebastian, who is currently a member of American Ballet Theatre’s corps de ballet as well as the director of ABT’s Incubator program. 

    Central Park Dance

    “In our more than 40 years in Westchester, we have watched several generations of students dance through our doors,” explains Maria Bai and Mario La Strada, founder and directors of Central Park Dance Studio.  

    Central Park Dance

    “We have made it our mission to offer students a well-rounded dance education that includes not only time in the studio, but opportunities to interact with and perform for our community. We are overwhelmed by the support we have received around our sold-out productions over the last 6 years, and we are so lucky to be able to expand the opportunity to more students and more families each year.” 

    Central Park Dance

    One of the longest running and most respected dance studios in Westchester for 40 years, Central Park Dance offers classic and progressive styles of dance and fitness for both adults and children. Central Park Dance is also home to the Signature and Remixx performance companies as well as the Ballet Academy, which provides the aspiring dancer with pre-professional training, performance opportunities and mentorships.

    The Nutcracker performances will take place on Sunday, December 11th at 12:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. Ticket prices range from $45, $35 and $25 and are available by clicking the link here.

  • The Bardavon Announces The Return Of The Nutcracker

    After a two year absence for the pandemic, The Bardavon has announced the return of the holiday classic, The Nutcracker. The shows will put on on Saturday, December 10 at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday, December 11 at 3 p.m, (snow date December 12 at 7 p.m.).

    Nutcracker

    Following a very long two year absence due to Covid, New Paltz Ballet Theatre will return to the Bardavon for its 23rd season to present this classic holiday event featuring dancers from the New York City Ballet. Peter and Lisa Naumann, co-directors of the NPBT, have brought many fine regional artists together to create this beautiful production. Dancers, designers, and technicians have all contributed to make this Nutcracker a visual delight. Come along with Marie as she dreams of a fierce battle between giant mice and toy soldiers followed by a magical journey through the Land of Snow to the Kingdom of Sweets.

    NutCracker Photo by Jacques Luigi

    The Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Inc. (the Bardavon) was incorporated in 1976 as a New York State nonprofit corporation, which is the oldest contiuously operating theater in the state. It owns and operates a 944-seat historic theater in Poughkeepsie and acquired the region’s premiere orchestra, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic (the HVP) in 1999. The Bardavon offers affordable, world-class arts education programs, music, dance, theater, Live in HD broadcasts, and classic films for the diverse audiences of the Hudson Valley. The company regularly presents at other venues such as Kingston’s Ulster Performing Arts Center and Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

    The Nutcracker is an 1892 two-act ballet originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Op. 71). The libretto is adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann’s 1816 short story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”.

    The tickets are $36 for adults and $30 for students while members get $5 off. For more information, please visit https://www.bardavon.org/show/the-nutcracker-30/.

  • World Premiere of “Sugar Hill: The Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker” Debuts in NYC This Fall

    From November 15 to 27, the world premiere of “Sugar Hill: The Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker” will come to New York City Center after a stay in Pittsburgh from October 19-30.

    The new ballet reimagines the beloved classic, with a libretto by Jessica Swan and music of legends Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Embracing the jazz genre, the ballet comes at a perfect time to ring in this fall’s holiday season at New York City Center.

    Composer Billy Strayhorn at the piano
    Composer Billy Strayhorn playing piano (Photo by Steve Schapiro/Corbis via Getty Images)

    “Sugar Hill” is a tribute to collaboration, diversity, and individuality. The music arrangement celebrates the jazz heartbeat of Sugar Hill in Harlem. Directed by Emmy Award winner Joshua Bergasse, with choreography by Jade Hale-Christofi, the show will present amazing dancers, orchestrations, and arrangements.

    Consummate master of self-expression Duke Ellington and classically-trained, jazz genius Billy Strayhorn, took something wholly European, Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, and transformed it into a story that symbolizes the American ideal — the freedom of individualism — by marrying it to jazz. There is no finer visual representation of this than through dance.

     -A. Alyce Claerbaut and Mercedes Ellington

    A. Alyce Claerbaut, niece of Billy Strayhorn, is the “Sugar Hill” Executive Producer, and Mercedes Ellington, granddaughter of Duke Ellington, and producer, director, and choreographer in her own right, expressed the genius of the ballet’s intent.

    Duke Ellington plays the piano
    American musician Duke Ellington (1899-1974). Undated photograph. (Photo by George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images)

    The “Sugar Hill” creative team also includes the talent of Julian Crouch (Scenic Designer), Linda Cho (Costume Design), David Finn (Lighting Design), Austin Switser and Switser + Knight (Projection Design) and John Shivers (Sound Design). Stay tuned for when the New York City Center tickets to this genre-bending ballet go on sale.