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November 15, 2008		Post-Performance Gala Offers theatergoers and supporters a way to extend the evening's magic and support the Company. For more information, click here.

September 9, 2008		New Jersey Ballet dances to a Latin Beat The company’s season opener at The Community Theatre on November 15 is called Ballet with a Latin Beat. The program promises a spicy trio of works with South of the Border flair, a showcase for New Jersey Ballet’s versatile artists.

August 4, 2008		NJB celebrates 50 years This year, New Jersey Ballet becomes the first New Jersey dance company to reach the half century mark and only the second professional performing arts organization in the state to do so.

August 4, 2008		Russian summer revisited Russia welcomed New Jersey Ballet this summer, from sun-drenched Samara, a city on the Volga River, to thoroughfares bustling with shoppers in Moscow, and skies exploding with fireworks during St. Petersburg's fabled White Nights.

May 21, 2008		NJB going to Russia For St. Petersburg White Nights Festival New Jersey Ballet will launch its 50th anniversary season with a seven-city tour of Russia.

May 21, 2008		Help Wanted: Wardrobe Person Experienced. Minimum 30-week season, September through June. Flexible schedule a must. Salary commensurate with experience. Reply with resume to info@njballet.org Or mail to Carolyn Clark, Director New Jersey Ballet 15 Microlab Road Livingston NJ 07039

April 10, 2008		NJ Ballet’s 49th Anniversary Gala George Balanchine’s Who Cares? leads off this anniversary celebration program, accompanied by the twin pianos of Rio Clemente and Regan Ryzuk.

April 6, 2008		Peter & the Wolf and Beauty & the Beast This great double bill gives equal time to boys and girls as brave Peter defeats the Wolf and the fair Beauty tames an angry Beast.

March 29, 2008		Rodeo and Giselle It’s all about what a girl will do for a guy. Two ballet masterpieces, two very different styles.

Feb 11, 2008		One of New Jersey Ballet’s founding directors, George Tomal, passed away on February 11 after a long illness. Read the full obituary.

Jan 2008		New Jersey Ballet presents complete and uncut Sleeping Beauty The quintessential classical ballet, Sleeping Beauty delivers high drama, tender romance, glorious Tchaikovsky music, which have made it an enduring favorite with adults and children for more than a hundred years.

Jan 2008		New Jersey Ballet presents “Gershwin at the Ballet” with guest artists Rio Clemente, The Bishop of Jazz, and vocalist Susan Speidel New Jersey’s foremost dance company and America’s favorite composer are a match made in heaven.

Nov 2007		New Jersey Ballet prepares for 37th season of Nutcracker This year marks the 37th season of New Jersey Ballet’s Nutcracker, making it the longest running original professional production in the state.

July 2007		New Jersey Ballet dancer Christina Theryoung meets a young fan, Ksenia Nakonechny, who was visiting the Livingston studios in July. The season was barely over in May when principal dancers David Tamaki and Andrei Jouravlev took off to perform Rodeo with the Metropolitan Ballet in Minneapolis.

May 19, 2007		May 19 Gala Evening to showcase Heroines of Ballet including Boris Eifman's celebrated Red Giselle New Jersey Ballet will end its Saturday Night series at The Community Theatre, Morristown on May 19 with a program that draws upon the company’s extensive repertory to put some of the great heroines of ballet all on stage in a single Gala Evening.

Apr 19, 2007		New Jersey Ballet to celebrate Arts in Education April 26 at NJPAC Gala performance will feature Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo and a dazzling display of works from classical to jazz.

Feb 22, 2007		Spring tour of Rodeo opens at Raritan Valley Community College Agnes deMille's masterwork changed the face of American ballet.

Feb 6 , 2007		New Jersey Ballet will heat up the night February 24 at The Community Theatre Program of Jazz on Pointe to feature the great Russian ballerina Valentina Kozlova in Hernando’s Hideaway

Dec 28 , 2006		Ronald Naldi and stars of the music world join New Jersey Ballet’s Salute to New Jersey State Opera January 13 at The Community Theatre A 40-year artistic partnership lives on in a splendid tribute to the late Maestro Alfredo Silipigni.

Sep 21, 2006		New Jersey Ballet will hold auditions To fill the roles of Mother Ginger’s Clown Children in its acclaimed production of Nutcracker at bergenPAC, Englewood.

Sep 20, 2006		Bollywood "Nutcracker" "Nutcracker" comes early to India, as dancers from New Jersey Ballet bring excerpts from the company's classical staging to the newly opened National Center for the Performing Arts in Mumbai.

May 26, 2006		East Orange Teacher and New Jersey Ballet Introduce Students to a Lifelong Love of the Arts Thanks to a partnership between an innovative educator and New Jersey Ballet, over 100 East Orange students have learned the idea that the arts can enrich their lives in many ways.

Apr 29, 2006		New Jersey Ballet to Mark World Dance Day With April 29th Performance at The Community Theatre, Morristown The company, featuring New Jersey Ballet’s international troupe of artists from 10 nations, is ideally suited to take part in the UNESCO worldwide event.

Apr 6, 2006		New Jersey Ballet celebrates 47 years With April 6 performance at NJPAC New Jersey Ballet will mark its 47th Anniversary with a Gala performance at NJPAC’s Prudential Hall on Thursday, April 6 at 7:00 p.m. The Company will use the occasion to honor Senator and former Governor Richard Codey and Mary Jo Codey.

Dec 16, 2005		Four originals return for New Jersey Ballet’s 35th Anniversary of Nutcracker at Paper Mill. It will feel like an old fashioned homecoming when New Jersey Ballet’s Nutcracker opens at Paper Mill Playhouse on December 16. The company will honor Sharon Harrington, longtime arts advocate, who served as chairman of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and currently holds the post of Director of Motor Vehicles.

Apr 30, 2005		Esmeralda Enchants Anew In Englewood On April 30 New Jersey Ballet brought its full-length production of Esmeralda to the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood for one time only this year on April 30.

Apr 14, 2005		New Jersey Ballet's 2005 Gala Makes Critics' Eyes Sparkle NJB held its annual Gala for 2005 on April 14 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center's Prudential Hall. The performances pleased both audiences and dance critics. Here are excerpts from a selection of reviews

Jan 15, 2005		New Jersey Ballet Begins 2005 With Acclaimed Performance "New Jersey Ballet paid tribute to Taglioni, the light-footed sylphide who embodied the ideals of the Romantic era, in a sensational program at the Community Theatre in Morristown on Saturday", (Jan. 15) wrote Robert Johnson, Dance Critic for the Newark Star-Ledger.

Nov 28, 2004		Critics Praise New Jersey Ballet's Annual Nutcracker Performances New Jersey began its 2004 season of Nutcracker performances on November 28 at the Middle Township Performing Arts Center, Cape May Court House. Ed Wismer, critic for the Ocean City Sentinel, said, "I am happy to report that NJB's version continues to charm and even surprise me.

Oct 16, 2004		New Jersey Ballet's Season Opener Wins Applause From The Star-Ledger When New Jersey Ballet began its fall season on October 16th in the Wilkins Theatre at Kean University, it "opened with a chiller… the spectacular revival of 'Death and the Maiden', said Robert Johnson, dance critic for the Newark Star-Ledger.

Apr 22, 2004		Esmeralda enchants critics and audience When New Jersey Ballet presented the full-length classic ballet, Esmeralda, on April 22 at the company's 45th anniversary gala at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, the production drew applause from both critics and other audience members.