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SNAPPED: Summit Dance Project celebrates the season with The Nutcracker

Rebecca Brenner

by Rebecca Brenner
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Park City Nutcracker by The Summit Dance Project.
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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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Rebecca Brenner

Rebecca Brenner is a Park City–based journalist whose work has appeared in Time, the Los Angeles Times, Tin House, The Rumpus, and other outlets. She is the founder of Mindful. Summit County, a member of Leadership Park City Class 30 and the Park City Community Foundation’s DEI Cohort, and a board member of Summit Pride. Her debut memoir, Paper House, was published by Wayfarer Books in 2025.

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