Dances Patrelle presents The Yorkville Nutcracker from December 11-14, 2025 at the Kaye Playhouse, 695 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065. Performances are Thursday & Friday at 7PM, Saturday at 2PM and 7PM, and Sunday at 12PM and 5PM. Tickets are $80 and can be purchased here.

Francis Patrelle’s holiday classic returns for its 29th season! Enjoy a magical tour of 1895 New York City with Dances Patrelle. The journey begins with a Christmas Eve party at Gracie Mansion attended by dignitaries from around the world – including new police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt. There will be a battle with life-sized mice, a midnight skate on the ponds of Central Park, and a sleigh-ride to the Grand Conservatory of the Bronx Botanical Gardens in time for a beautiful sunrise buffet of sweets, hosted by the Sugar-Plum Fairy.

New York City Ballet’s Miriam Miller and Tyler Angle lead the Dances Patrelle cast as the Sugar-Plum Fairy and Cavalier, along with Max Baud and Hayley Clark as the Snow King and Queen, and two new Snow Princes, including Ethan Wilson from the Dance Theater of Harlem. This magical and whirlwind seasonal confection, with rich delights for ballet lovers of every age also features 200 students from Ballet Academy East, Rye Ballet Conservatory, School of American Ballet, Uptown Ballet Academy, JKO at ABT, Manhattan Youth Ballet, Chrystie Street Ballet Academy, Ballet Hispanico, and the Joffrey Ballet School. For more information, visit dancespatrelle.org.

Dances Patrelle (dP) is a dynamic professional ballet company celebrating its 35th season! dP presents two annual seasons in New York – the timeless holiday tradition, The Yorkville Nutcracker, and a spring repertory season featuring world premieres and classic Patrelle favorites. Mr. Patrelle’s body of work includes over 50 original ballets choreographed for Dances Patrelle, and spans an incredibly wide range of styles, from his beloved American Songbook collection to such contemporary classics as Madame X, Macbeth and Rhapsody in Blue. Heralded by Lynn Garafola in Dance Magazine as a choreographer with “a personal vision…classical because it is rooted in metaphor and symbolic language [and] populist because of its legibility and broad cultural resonance.” Patrelle has also cultivated a long-time collaboration with composer Patrick Soluri, commissioning four original scores including 2009’s Murder at the Masque for dP’s 20th Anniversary. Known for attracting the great talent of each generation, Dances Patrelle is pleased to count ballet stars such as Marcelo Gomes, Jenifer Ringer, Donald Williams, Lourdes Lopez, and Cynthia Gregory among its dancers. For 26 seasons, Dances Patrelle has tapped into the human experience, connecting intimately with the audience and continuously reinventing dramatic dance. In 2013, the company was named the resident ballet company of the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center.

“In Francis Patrelle’s ballets, the characters come alive. His choreography is full of heart and soul.”

– Cynthia Gregory, Prima Ballerina

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