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2025 Nutcracker Performances
Performances at Irving Arts Center: December 6-7, 2025
Rehearsals: 9/27, 10/4, 10/18, 10/25, 11/8, 11/15, 11/22 and Theater Week December 1-5
Nutcracker Theatre Week Schedule
Makeup-Hair-Costume for Cherubs, Angels, Polichinelles
Makeup-Hair Costumes for Mice, Soldiers, Harlequin, Ragdolls
Makeup-Hair-Costumes for Party Girls, Hungarian, Arabian
Spring Gala
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2026 Spring Gala Date: May 16, 2026
Coppell Arts Center
Information will be emailed to Academy families in February.
COSTUME GUIDELINES
Please prepare for your dancer’s performance with the following costume guidelines.
1. TIGHTS: Please have the correct tights based on your class and level.
Preballet, Preballet 2, Beginning Ballet, Teen Ballet 1 & 2, Ballet 1-3 — Ballet Pink seamless tights
Ballet levels 4 – 7 — Ballet Pink convertible, seamed tights
Jazz/Tap levels 1 – 3 — Tan tights seamless tights
Jazz/Tap levels 4 – 5 — Black seamed tights
Jazz/Tap levels 6 – 7 — No tights
Modern 5 – Black convertible, seamed tights
Modern 6/7 – no tights
Musical Theatre – Tan tights
2. HAIR should be pulled back into a neat bun for all ballet students with NO BANGS. Girls performing in tap and jazz should have their hair in a high ponytail with NO BANGS. Please make sure all hair clips, pins, and bands match your hair color. Headpieces need to be secured. No jewelry is to be worn on the stage.
3. MAKEUP: Young students should wear mascara, blush and red lipstick. Blonde children may pencil their eyebrows. Older dancers can also use eyeliner around their eyes (not drawn out to the side) and brown eye shadow in the crease of the eye. No blue eyeshadow or glitter, please!