ABOUT TONY WILLIAMS
Tony Williams is the founder of the Tony Williams Dance Center and Urban Nutcracker, and founder and artistic director of City Ballet of Boston. At age 16, after experiencing trouble as a street gang member, Williams discovered a pathway to success through an interest in gymnastics and then ballet.
With a scholarship from the Boston School of Ballet, Williams joined the Boston Ballet in 1964. After dancing for only three years, he worked his way up from the Corps de Ballet to Principal Dancer. He then danced soloist roles with the Joffrey Ballet and was a Principal Dancer with Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the Gulbenkian Ballet of Portugal, and the Norwegian National Ballet.
Williams has been teaching in the New England area for 30 years. With this background, and as a father of three sons, Williams is sensitive to the needs of youth. Widely respected as a progressive dance educator, he has won the Dance Teacher Magazine Award and the Wheelock Family Theater’s Wheel Awards.
ABOUT THIS WEBINAR
In this popular episode, Tony Williams, founder and artistic director of City Ballet of Boston and founder of the Tony Williams Dance Center, discusses the role of dance programs for children in inner cities and shares excerpts from his holiday classic, Urban Nutcracker. He also reflects on the influence of his 52 years of daily TM practice on his personal life and remarkable artistic career.
Mario Orsatti, the host of TM Talks and Director of the Advanced Techniques of the Transcendental Meditation Program, interviewed Williams on December 13, 2020. This popular episode was rebroadcast on December 26, 2021.
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