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 Supporting the Nutcracker Ballet and the Community

 

Several years ago Tustin Dance Center established a non-profit entity named Dance! To Your Heart’s 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 18th 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 10th 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.

Nutcracker Level – Donations of $1000 and over

Sponsor will receive 4 tickets to a Nutcracker performance of their choice, a photo opportunity with a cast member, and their choice of a full page advertisement in the Nutcracker event program or 2 tickets to the Nutcracker Gala party and name recognition in our event program.

Sugar Plum Fairy Level – Donations of $501 - $750

Sponsor will receive 4 tickets to a Nutcracker performance of their choice, and their choice a half-page advertisement in the Nutcracker event program or 2 tickets to the Nutcracker Gala party and name recognition in our event program.

Snowflake Level –Donations of $251 - $500

Sponsor will receive 2 tickets to a Nutcracker performance of their choice, and their choice of a quarter-page add in the Nutcracker event program or 2 tickets to the Nutcracker Gala party and name recognition in our event program.

Clara Level – Donations of $100 - $250

Sponsor will receive their choice of a business card sized advertisement in the Nutcracker event program or 1 ticket to the Sugar Plum Fairy Tea Party and name recognition in our event program.

Angel Level – Donations of $50 - $100

Five tickets will be donated in sponsor’s name to the Tustin Boys and Girls Club.

Toy Soldier Level – Donations of $25 - $50

Sponsor will receive name recognition in the Nutcracker event program.

Mouse Level – Donations up to $25

Thank you for supporting this year’s Nutcracker and the arts!

 

 

1 Dance! To Your Heart’s 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 Gala, other fundraisers and donations are wholly directed into the non-profit and used to fund the current or next year production of The Nutcracker Ballet.

 

 

 

 

 

Accepting Donations

 

Donations are tax deductible.

Support this year's Nutcracker production by attending one or more of these events:

         Nutcracker Ballet

         Nutcracker Gala

         Sugar Plum Fairy Tea Party

Learn more about these upcoming events below.

The Nutcracker Ballet

Dance! To Your Hearts Delight's 18th annual production of The Nutcracker Ballet will be held December 3 - 4, 2022 at the beautiful Downey Theatre.

Three performances:

    Saturday, Dec 3, 2:00 pm

    Saturday, Dec 3, 6:30 pm

    Sunday, Dec 4, 2:00 pm

Nutcracker Gala

Dance! To Your Hearts Delight will hold its annual Gala event on TBD date!

At this even, we will celebrate our production and our many donors and volunteers who our helping to make The Nutcracker Ballet happen this year!

Sugar Plum Fairy Tea Party

Dance! To Your Hearts Delight will hold its annual Sugar Plum Fairy Tea Party on Saturday, November 12, 2022. Honored guests will be treated to a magical day with cast members from the Nutcracker Ballet, enjoy wonderful treats and be able to shop our famed Nutcracker Boutique.

Each year, our committee and the many volunteers who help strive to make our tea party the best ever!

Questions?

If you have a question about any of the donation options or Nutcracker events listed above, please call Kelly Meyers, Dance! To Your Hearts Delight's president, at (714) 544-3072 or send an email to info@tustindance.com.

 

 

 

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