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Creative Conversations: My First Nutcracker

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Director and Choreographer Melissa Riker and Artistic Director and script adapter Barbara Zinn Krieger discuss how they both upheld and challenged tradition to create an inclusive Nutcracker that is a first in more ways than one.
Creative Clubhouse KIDS

Reimagining Tradition: A New Nutcracker
A conversation with the creative team behind NYCCT’s My First Nutcracker
Facilitated by Sarah Marksteiner, former NYCCT Artistic Associate. 

My First Nutcracker

Learn more about NYCCT’s hit holiday production, My First Nutcracker!

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