{"id":15787,"date":"2025-10-25T02:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T02:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/15787\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T02:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T02:37:07","slug":"wall-township-girl-to-star-in-nyc-ballets-the-nutcracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/15787\/","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":2,"featured_media":15788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11449,9,11451,56,63,65,64,11450],"class_list":["post-15787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-jersey-proud","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city-ballet","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-the-nutcracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}