This production will be presented at the Touhill Performing Arts Center.
This abridged version of Saint Louis Ballet's The Nutcracker was created for younger audiences and those with limited attention spans. This performance employs the same sets, costumes, special effects, and glorious dancing as the full-length presentations. Ideal for holiday field trips!
FOR SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS
- Public/Private Schools
School groups are invited to attend at a field trip rate and must have a minimum of 15 students attending in order to secure the field trip rate.
- One free teacher ticket for every 15 students.
- Adults attending in addition to teachers do not qualify for the field trip rate and must pay regular full cost of ticket.
- Field Trip rates are for grade K-12 students only.
- TITLE 1 Schools
Under the SLB Pointe to Succeed Program you are invited to request free tickets for your students/class/school.
Please contact tickets@stlouisballet.org
- Reservations for School Groups begin September 2 @ 10AM by filling out a reservation request form at stlouisballet.org/nutcrackerashortertale
MORE ABOUT SAINT LOUIS BALLET
Saint Louis Ballet is the region’s only professional ballet company. Under the direction of former New York City Ballet principal dancer Gen Horiuchi, its 26 classically trained dancers are selected in a competitive national audition and come to St. Louis from training programs and ballet companies throughout the world. The company’s repertoire includes full-length ballets such as Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, Coppelia, Romeo & Juliet and Giselle as well as contemporary work from renowned choreographers such as George Balanchine, Justin Peck, Christopher Wheeldon, Gerald Arpino, Christopher d’Amboise, Brian Enos, Amy Seiwert, Jessica Lang, Twyla Tharp, Tom Gold, Emery LeCrone, Nilas Martins, and Peter Martins. In addition to a season of fully mounted productions, Saint Louis Ballet operates a ballet school, professional training program, and conducts an outreach program, Pointe to Succeed, to bring underserved students to live performances.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Gen Horiuchi has been the artistic director of the Saint Louis Ballet Company and School since 2000. He has created over 20 original works for the company and has spearheaded the growth of the School based in Chesterfield. Raised in Tokyo, Japan by parents who were professional ballet dancers, he won the prestigious Prix de Lausanne, the international ballet competition in Switzerland in 1980 (and since 1993 has been a judge for the competition). He then received a scholarship to study at the School of American Ballet. In 1982, he was invited by George Balanchine to join the New York City Ballet, where he became a principal dancer in 1989. He’s danced on Broadway in Song and Dance and was also Mr. Mistoffelees in the musical CATS, both on Broadway and in London's West End. He choreographed the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan in 1998. In 2004, he was honored in New York City with the Seventh Cultural Bridge Award together with Harold Prince, (director of Phantom of the Opera). He has directed the Aoyama Ballet Festival in Tokyo with artists in major companies from around the world. And since 2010, he has been directing Gen Horiuchi’s Ballet USA each summer in Osaka, Japan where he sets his own choreography on professional dancers and brings guests like Miyako Yoshida, former Royal Ballet principal, to dance alongside him to sold out houses.
