Photo by Rob Sigler Photography

The Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo has awarded the Chautauqua Regional Youth Ballet funding to support the use of guest artists for their 2018 Nutcracker. Guest artists for the 2018 Nutcracker included Lauren King, Solist and Joseph Gordon, principal dancer, both from the New York City Ballet. The funding was received from the 2018 Oliver G. and Sarah Sloan Bauman Fund for the Arts. The Bauman Fund for the Arts is a Fund that Sarah Bauman Baxter established to memorialize her father and their shared love of the classics including classical languages, ballet, and opera. Lauren King and Joseph Gordon from the New York City Ballet are pictured.