For full listings, check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY Get your holiday performance fix at the continuation of these three classics: Nimbus Dance Works’ Jersey City Nutcracker (7 pm, $10-$50); J City Theater’s A [...]
Jersey City’s Nimbus Dance Works debuted parts of its Jersey City Nutcracker at three weekend shows at Grace Church Van Vorst. The dance troupe plans to bring more parts of the show to Jersey City next holiday season, with a premiere of the full performance in 2012.
Nimbus dancers Samuel Pott and PeiJu Chien-Pott during an outreach performance of the Jersey City Nutcracker this week at the Joseph Connors Senior Center (Photo: Jean-Paul Jr.) Nimbus Dance Works will unveil part of a new production this weekend that goes far beyond your mother’s Nutcracker. The inaugural performance of the Jersey City Nutcracker contains [...]
Nimbus Dance Works will play host to Taiwan’s Taipei Crossover Dance Company and create a new piece by renowned choreographer Xiao-xiong Zhang this summer. “We see tremendous potential for expanding dance audiences and enhancing artistic expression through an international collaboration such as this,” says Nimbus artistic director Samuel Pott. The world premiere performance, slated for [...]
After a successful inaugural run last year, Jersey City’s Nimbus Dance Works is bringing back its JC SummerMoves program, which provides high-school age dancers with rigorous training in ballet, modern and jazz dance. The two-week program is capped with a final performance, and it includes a field trip to check out a dance performance in [...]
The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation has announced its 2009 grants, including $80,000 to three Jersey City nonprofits. The grants are among the 220 the foundation gave out, totaling about $10.1 million. Total giving for the Morristown-based foundation, which has lost a third of its assets due to the recession, was down sharply this year, and [...]
As the lights dimmed and the attendees of Nimbus Dance Works’ Fifth Anniversary Gala took their seats, I couldn’t help but think to myself: “Pinch me; I’m in Jersey City.” The locale may not be home to a designated performing arts center or recital hall, but that doesn’t stop the members of Nimbus Dance from [...]
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