SNAPPED: Summit Dance Project celebrates the season with The Nutcracker

Park City Nutcracker by The Summit Dance Project. Photo: TownLift//Randi Sidman-Moore

PARK CITY, Utah — Young dancers from Summit Dance Project brought Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” to Eccles Center on Saturday, delivering a holiday tradition to a packed matinee crowd.

The student performers guided audiences through Clara’s Christmas Eve dream — from the battle with the Mouse King to the Land of Sweets — while families filled the theater with the energy of a December afternoon.

Programs rustled, young audience members leaned forward in their seats, and applause erupted as dancers took their final bows.

In the lobby afterward, parents snapped photos while dancers still in costume reunited with friends and family, marking another year of a Park City holiday ritual.