Several years ago Tustin Dance Center established a non-profit entity named Dance! To Your Hearts Delight for the purpose of promoting and spreading the joy of the arts to children and families in Orange County. With the primary vision of instilling in students' hearts a love for the art of dance within a professional production arena, this holiday season we are proudly producing and fully-staging our 18^th annual The Nutcracker Ballet, featuring a cast of nationally-renowned professional dancers and nearly 50 very talented student dancers from Tustin Dance Center. Our three amazing performances will be held on the weekend of December 3 - 4, 2022 at beautiful Downey Theatre in Downey.

As a part of the Tustin community since 1978, thousands of dancers have waltzed through the doors of Tustin Dance Center.  Our students attend local schools, dance on teams at OCSA, Foothill, Tustin and Beckman High Schools, and many have gone on to professional dance careers.  And each year, we have the absolute privilege of working with over 50 studio dancers who share their talents in our Nutcracker Ballet performances.

How Can You Help?

Of course, producing a large-scale event such as The Nutcracker Ballet requires a significant financial commitment. From renting the theatre and backdrops, to maintaining or replacing some of the hundreds of costumes we use, to casting professional dancers, to authoring and publishing the event program and marketing the event, the costs are many.  

While we will recover much of our expenses through ticket sales, and by holding several smaller scale fundraising events such as our annual Nutcracker Gala and Sugar Plum Fairy Tea Party, we need to raise another $20,000 to fund this year's beautiful theatre and professional dancers, to keep ticket costs low and at a rate that provides the best value in Orange County for a full-stage, professional ballet, and to again allow us to donate hundreds of seats to the underserved for the 10^th year running.

We need your help and hope you will consider contributing to our production. There are two ways you can help and both options provide great exposure to you or your organization:

•         By making an individual cash donation with one of the pre-set amounts listed below, or by becoming a corporate sponsor so that we can reach our aforementioned fundraising, production and community goals.

•         By donating products and services that we can use as silent auction items at our annual Nutcracker Gala event.

You Should Also Know...

Our annual Nutcracker Gala and Sugar Plum Fairy Tea Party are ticketed events, however we too give back to the community through several free mini Nutcracker performances we call Nutcracker in a Nutshell. Our busy cast will donate their time and talents with Nutshell performances including OC Rescue Mission, Boys and Girls Clubs, Tustin Library, Groves of Tustin and the Enderle Center Holiday Open House.

For questions about sponsorship, please contact Tustin Dance Center's owner and director, Kelly Meyers, at (714) 544-3072 or at info@tustindance.com. We thank you so much for your support and look forward to seeing you at our Nutcracker Ballet, Nutcracker Gala and Sugar Plum Fairy Tea Party!

Tustin Dance Center has proudly served Tustin and the surrounding communities for 45 years, and is located at 14662 Franklin Ave, Ste. C in Tustin, CA 92780.

¹ Dance! To Your Hearts Delight! is Tustin Dance Center's 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Our non-profit was established to advance the arts within our studio and in the greater Tustin community. The proceeds from all Nutcracker performances, the Sugar Plum Fairy Tea Party, the Nutcracker boutique, concessions, fundraisers, and donations are directed into the non-profit and used to fund the production of the event each year.