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 and Urban Nutcracker, discusses the role of dance programs for children in inner cities, shares excerpts from the Urban Nutcracker, and talks about how 52 years of daily TM® practice have influenced his remarkable life. This talk first aired on December 13, 2020, and is also available for replay at TMTalks.org.
ABOUT TONY WILLIAMS
After experiencing trouble as a street gang member at 16, Tony Williams discovered a pathway to success through gymnastics and then ballet. With a scholarship from the Boston Ballet School, he joined the Boston Ballet in 1964, and after only three years, worked his way up from the corps de ballet to principal dancer. He later became a soloist with the Joffrey Ballet and a principal dancer with Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the Gulbenkian Ballet of Portugal, and the Norwegian National Ballet.
Mr. Williams has been teaching in the New England area for 30 years. With this background, and as a father of three sons, he is very sensitive to the needs of youths. Widely respected as a progressive dance educator, he has won the Dance Teacher Magazine and the Wheelock Family Theater’s WHEEL Awards.
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