URBAN NUTCRACKER BALLET
30TH ANNIVERSARY

Ballethnic's Urban Nutcracker returns to Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel where it all began 30 years ago. Performances to be held December 8 th -10 th . Choreographed by Waverly T. Lucas II/Co-Founding Director Resident Choreographer Ballethnic Dance Company Inc. it is set on Atlanta's historic Sweet Auburn Avenue in the 1940’s. Ballethnic set the trend for ethnicized adaptations of The Nutcracker. It is a soulful celebration featuring Reggae Ragdolls, the sultry Arabian dance, the spins and leaps of the Black Russians, Mother Spice and her tumbling Spice Drops, the bubbly Coca-Cola Pas de Six, and the Brown Sugar and her Chocolatier.