{"id":330629,"date":"2025-10-25T03:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T03:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/330629\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T03:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T03:16:10","slug":"wall-township-girl-to-star-in-nyc-ballets-the-nutcracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/330629\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Township girl to star in NYC Ballet\u2019s \u2018The Nutcracker\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a dream come true for a young dancer from Wall Township.<\/p>\n<p>Dessa Tufts, 11, will be dancing in New York City Ballet\u2019s \u201cThe Nutcracker\u201d this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Intermediate School student will be the child lead of Marie \u2013 also known as Clara \u2013 when the ballet opens on Nov. 28.<\/p>\n<p>Starting at Sea Girt\u2019s East Coast Dancer Company, Tufts is now in her second year with the School of American Ballet in New York.<\/p>\n<p>She says she is working hard to one day become a principal ballerina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is a dream come true for a young dancer from Wall Township. Dessa Tufts, 11, will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":330630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,164119,405,403,103984,5226,5225,5228,5227,111411,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-330629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-jersey-proud","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-ballet","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-the-nutcracker","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115432638618512250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}