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"I remember driving across 92nd Street and getting stuck behind a garbage truck," says Francis Patrelle as he recalled the impetus for creating his Yorkville Nutcracker. "All of a sudden, I came upon Gracie Mansion Gracie Mansion is the official residence of the Mayor of New York City. Built in 1799, it is located in Carl Schulz Park, at East End Avenue and Eighty-eighth Street in Manhattan. It overlooks Hell Gate. Architecture
Archibald Gracie built Gracie Mansion in 1799.
. It was all lit up, and I immediately thought it would be a great setting for a Nutcracker." Now an annual Upper East Side event, this uniquely New York New York, state, United States
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, this Nutcracker has scenes from familiar landmarks like Central Park and the Bronx Botanical Gardens.

Patrelle always borrows stellar guests from New York's top companies. This year, which is Dances Patrelle's fifteenth anniversary season, New York City Ballet New York City Ballet, one of the foremost American dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded by Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine as the Ballet Society in 1946.  principals Jenifer Ringer and James Fayette alternate with American Ballet Theatre's Sandra Brown and Dance Theatre of Harlem's Donald Williams as the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier. See www.dancespatrelle.org.
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Title Annotation:New York; Yorkville Nutcracker
Author:Nayor, David
Publication:Dance Magazine
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Date:Dec 1, 2003
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