New World Ballet’s version of the ‘Nutcracker’ brings ballet to the underserved
So when Temple was finally at the helm of his own dance company, Santa Rosa’s New World Ballet, he was eager to try something different. When the idea of reinventing the old chestnut with a jazz orchestration came to life, he ran with it, tapping the Marcus Shelby Orchestra to resurrect Duke Ellington’s epic 1960 “Nutcracker Suite.”