March 12, 2025

Wine and Comedy at Old York Road Cellars

Wine and Comedy Nights at Old York Cellars in Ringoes is back for the 10th season, hosted by local comic Helene Angley. Comics Buddy Fitzpatrick and Chris Monty will headline the first two shows on April 5 and 19, in the heated tent in the vineyard.

Fitzpatrick performs around the country and has appeared on Comedy Central, ABC and A&E. He was most recently featured in Steven King’s horror-romance best-seller adaptation of “Lisey’s Story” on Apple TV+.  Monty’s recent projects include an Amazon Prime comedy special “What’s the Worst That Could Happen,” and appearances in HBO’s “Vinyl” and Amazon Prime’s “Red Oaks.” Host Angley is featured in comedy clubs around the country and on cruise ships around the world. more

Lutist Thomas Dunford Does “Up Close” Concerts

On Sunday, March 23, at 3 and 6 p.m., lutist Thomas Dunford will return to Princeton University Concerts (PUC) in a set of hour-long appearances for the Performances Up Close series in Richardson Auditorium. The audience is seated on stage in these informal events.

Following his appearance with the Jupiter Ensemble as part of PUC’s 2022-23 season, Dunford returns with a solo program of works by J. S. Bach, Joan Ambrosio Dalza, John Dowland, Girolame Kapsberger, Marin Marais, and Erik Satie.

“We are thrilled to have Thomas Dunford back,” said PUC Director Marna Seltzer. “He is a rock star in the world of early music, and one of many musicians on our series who is not only a fierce ambassador for their instrument but also a consummate musician. We look forward to hearing his sensitive and exciting playing in our Up Close format.” more

Blending East and West at Upcoming Concert

BLENDING CULTURES: Chinese pipa master Jin Yang is the guest soloist with the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra at the Princeton Alliance Church on Sunday, March 16.

The Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, under its conductor Chiu-Tze Lin, will present a concert, “Bending of the East and West,” on March 16, at 7 p.m. at the Princeton Alliance Church, 20 Schalks Crossing Road, Plainsboro.

The program will feature the Chinese Pipa Master Jin Yang. This collaboration of a Chinese folk instrument soloing with a western classical symphony orchestra is a one-of-a-kind event designed to bring a unique experience in sound. more

“The Marvelous Mr. Meusel” By the Dryden Ensemble

EARLY MUSIC: Lutenist Daniel Swenberg, new artistic director of the Dryden Ensemble, is among the musicians on the program Sunday, March 16 at Princeton Theological Seminary.

The Dryden Ensemble returns with its new artistic director, Daniel Swenberg, in a program entitled “En Concert: The Marvelous Mr. Meusel “ on Sunday, March 16 at 4 p.m. at the Princeton Theological Seminary Chapel, 64 Mercer Street. Admission is free, though donations will be accepted.

In the early 18th century, lute and harpsichord players would often arrange and expand their solo repertoire for an ensemble.  This genre or approach to repertoire is known as playing “En Concert.”  The melody lines of a plucked-instrument solo piece would be doubled by a violin, oboe, or flute and the bass line would be reinforced by a cello or viola da gamba. more

Orchestra Announces Lineup For Season at Richardson

CONCERTOS AND MORE: Grammy-winning pianist Michelle Cann is among the guest artists on schedule for the Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s 2025-26 season, which opens October 25-26. (Photo by Titilayo Ayangade)

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) has announced its 2025-26 Season with a line-up of guest artists assembled by Edward T. Cone Music Director Rossen Milanov. Violinist Aubree Oliverson returns to the PSO stage along with violinist Bella Hristova, who last performed with the orchestra in 2014. Pianists Maxim Lando and Michelle Cann, harpsichordist Mahan Esfanhani, and Serbian-French cellist Maja Bogdanovic will each be appearing with the PSO for the first time at Richardson Auditorium.

On the program are concertos by Antonín Dvorák, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Edvard Grieg, and Camille Saint-Saëns, as well as the world premiere of a new work for harpsichord and small orchestra by Princeton-based composer Julian Grant. Additional contemporary compositions include Dobrinka Tabakova’s Orpheus’ Comet, Andreia Pinto Correia’s Ciprés, Jessie Montgomery’s Records from a Vanishing City, and Viet Cuong’s Extra(ordinarily) Fancy. more

Artist Victor E. Bell Celebrates Rescue Dogs

CELEBRATING RESCUE DOGS: The Arts Council of Princeton’s Spring 2025 Anne Reeves Artist-in-Residence Victor E. Bell celebrates his love for rescue dogs through ceramic “dogoyles,” to be on view throughout the community this spring.

The Arts Council of Princeton (ACP) has announced Victor E. Bell as their Spring 2025 Anne Reeves Artist-in-Residence.

Bell loves dogs — especially rescue dogs — and the unconditional love we receive from them. He also loves his Princeton community, and so the idea for “dogoyles” — a magical mix of dog, dragon, and gargoyle — was born. Bell crafts these whimsical ceramic sculptures specifically for locations throughout town that have special meaning to him and many in our community. His finished sculptures will be on view beginning in late May. more

Regreening Through Art

Works by Spriha Gupta are on view in the Solley Lobby at the Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, through March 29. Gupta will be part of a Women’s History Month Artist Talk being hosted by Judith K. Brodsky in the Taplin Gallery on March 15 from 1 to 2 p.m. For more information, visit artscouncilofprinceton.org.

GFS Receives More Than $100K in Grants

“THE NINE MUSES”: This work by Carlos Dorrien can be found at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton, which was recently awarded more than $100,000 to support three key initiatives. (Photo by David Michael Howarth Photography)

Grounds For Sculpture (GFS) in Hamilton has been awarded significant grants from The Bunbury Fund at the Princeton Area Community Foundation, The Horizon Foundation of New Jersey (The Horizon Foundation), and M & T Charitable Foundation (M &T). As a result of this funding, GFS will continue its capacity building work; pilot a social prescribing program through a partnership with Penn Medicine Princeton Health (PMPH); and bolster its participation in the Families First Discovery Pass Program (FFDP), which underwrites tickets to GFS for low-income families and individuals in New Jersey. Together, these three initiatives will contribute to the sculpture park’s strategic vision by sustaining and enriching its commitment to building communities and growing connectivity with its visitors.

“We’re delighted these three foundations are generously supporting Grounds For Sculpture,” said Gary Garrido Schneider, GFS executive director. “While we continue to build our organizational capacity, we’ll also be able to provide more visitors with the opportunity to experience the joy and restorative power of our art-filled gardens.”  more

March 5, 2025

Between the Oscars and Bryn Mawr: Casting a Book Sale Treasure

By Stuart Mitchner

Now what is love, I pray thee tell?
It is that fountain and that well
Where pleasure and repentance dwell.

—Sir Walter Raleigh

(may i touch said he how much said she a lot said he)

—e.e. cummings

Raleigh’s poem “A Description of Love” begins and ends Pleasure and Repentance (Pergamon 1976), the Royal Shakespeare Company’s “Lighthearted Look at Love” created and compiled by former RSC Director Terry Hands. The subject of acting and actors, love and lovers brings to mind Sunday night’s Academy Awards, where Morgan Freeman delivered a memorial tribute to Gene Hackman (“Our community lost a giant, I lost a dear friend”) and four Oscars went to Sean Baker’s Anora, a zany throwback to the screwball comedy romances of Hollywood’s Golden Age.

My favorite Hackman film is Arthur Penn’s extraordinary neo-noir Night Moves (1975), which features one of his strongest performances as the driven, benighted, very human private eye Harry Moseley. At the moment, however, I’m remembering him as Harry Caul sitting alone in the wreckage of his room playing tenor sax at the end of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation (1974). more

Bullied High School Senior Takes Deadly Revenge at Her Prom in “Carrie”; Theatre Intime, PUP Offer a Strong Staging of a Flawed but Worthy Musical

“CARRIE”: Theatre Intime and the Princeton University Players have staged “Carrie.” Directed by Chloe Webster; and music directed by Jenia Marquez, the musical was presented February 27-March 1 at the Hamilton Murray Theater. Above: Carrie (Christie Davis, center right), who is used to being an outsider, enjoys attending her prom with Tommy (David Getz, center left) — unaware that she is about to be the victim of a cruel prank (as evidenced by the bucket above her head) and humiliated in front of her onlooking classmates. (Photo by Elena Milliken)

By Donald H. Sanborn III

Stephen King’s novel Carrie (1974) portrays Carrie White, a bullied high school senior who is secluded and abused by her religiously overzealous, puritanical mother. Carrie discovers that she has telekinetic powers, with which she exacts vengeance on her classmates (and others) when she is humiliated by a cruel prank at her prom.

The plot is a dark and bitter inversion of the Cinderella story, with the archetypes easy to spot. Carrie obviously is a variation on Cinderella. Margaret, her mother, becomes the wicked stepmother, and the taunting classmates are the stepsisters. A sympathetic gym teacher becomes the fairy godmother, while another student, Tommy, reluctantly fills the role of the prince (despite being in love with Sue, another classmate).

Carrie was adapted into a 1976 film, with a screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen. Subsequently the novel and film were adapted into a musical, for which Cohen wrote the libretto. Dean Pitchford (the screenwriter of Footloose, and the co-writer of several songs for Fame) wrote the lyrics, with Michael Gore (Pitchford’s Fame collaborator) composing the music.

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Princeton University Presents Annual Competition Winners Concert

By Nancy Plum

The stage at Richardson Auditorium looked a bit like an instrument warehouse last Friday night, jam-packed with chairs, percussion, two harps, and several keyboard instruments in anticipation of Princeton University Orchestra’s winter concert. With all these possible players, there might have been a potential for sound cacophony, but the University Orchestra performed its annual “Concerto Concert” with clarity and melodic refinement while showing off the immense talents of two students. Conducted by Michael Pratt, Friday night’s performance (which was repeated Saturday night) showed freshman violist Jisang Kymm and sophomore pianist Sarah Yuan to be experienced well beyond their years in the Orchestra’s presentation of Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto for Viola and Orchestra and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor.

Schnittke’s 1985 three-movement Concerto for Viola and Orchestra diverged from the traditional concerto structure of alternating fast-slow-fast sections and reversed this order, with outer “Largo” movements bracketing a central “Allegro.” Like many of his Soviet contemporaries, Schnittke collaborated with the finest performers of his day, and the virtuosity and intensity of the Concerto reflected its tribute to a leading violist of the time. Viola soloist Jisang Kymm opened Schnittke’s work with introspection and attention to detail. Taking his time in the reflective texture, Kymm effortlessly executed the numerous double stops and insisted on the score’s dissonance against an unsettled orchestral accompaniment.  more

Sesame Workshop Brings Show to New Brunswick

ELMO AND FRIENDS: “Sesame Street Live! Say Hello” comes to State Theatre New Jersey on Sunday, March 16 at 2 p.m.

State Theatre New Jersey presents “Sesame Street Live! Say Hello” on Sunday, March 16 at 2 p.m. The live show will bring the beloved characters from the show Sesame Street to life in a brand-new interactive production.

Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Cookie Monster, and their friends sing, dance, and play alongside furry friends, all while the audience follows Elmo’s puppy, Tango, in a game of hide and seek.

“We are overjoyed and honored to be collaborating with Sesame Workshop to bring a brand-new tour of ‘Sesame Street Live’ to stages across the U.S. and Canada,” said Round Room Live Founder and Co-President Stephen Shaw. “Round Room Live has a long history of exciting, innovative, and engaging productions, and we’re thrilled to combine our dedication to premium, unforgettable entertainment with the beloved characters of Sesame Street in an interactive musical adventure that will create memorable experiences for families of all ages.” more

Folk Music Society Presents Poor Man’s Gambit Trio

PHILLY AND IRISH: Poor Man’s Gambit is all about the traditional Irish culture of the Philadelphia area. The group comes to Christ Congregation Church on March 21.

On Friday, March 21 at 8 p.m., the Princeton Folk Music Society brings Poor Man’s Gambit, a Philadelphia-based Irish music band, to Christ Congregation Church, 50 Walnut Lane.

The multi-instrumentalist group includes Deirdre Lockman (fiddle and vocals), Corey Purcell (button accordion, cittern, bodhran, vocals, and dance), and Joseph Carmichael (guitar, whistle, flute, and vocals).

Lockman and Purcell are steeped in the traditional Irish culture of the Philadelphia area. Both started as step dancers in childhood. Lockman studied at the DeNogla Academy of Irish Dance in New Jersey, and both went on to dance competitively at national and international levels. In time, however, they found their true calling in Irish music. more

Irish Music Ensemble Celebrates Heritage

DIRECT FROM BELFAST: The Shamrock Tenors Come to State Theatre New Jersey in New Brunswick on March 15.

On Saturday, March 15 at 8 p.m., State Theatre New Jersey presents Shamrock Tenors as part of the group’s North American tour. Tickets range from $39-$99.

Based in Belfast, Shamrock Tenors features performers from both sides of the community across Northern Ireland, with vocalists and multi-instrumentalists from London’s West End and beyond. The show features some of Ireland’s most beloved classic songs in five-part harmony, including “Danny Boy,” “Whiskey in the Jar,” “The Parting Glass,” and “Wild Rover.” more

A Night of Comedy at State Theatre NJ

Matt Lopes

State Theatre New Jersey and Stress Factory Comedy Club present “Comedy Night Live!” on Friday, March 7 at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $25-$35.

Performers include Matt Lopes, Brian Scolaro, Patty Rosborough, and Vinnie Brand.

Lopes is the house comedian at the Stress Factory Comedy Club in Bridgeport, Conn., and the co-host of the “You Should Be Worried” podcast. He’s worked in stages at New York Comedy Club, Stress Factory NJ, Funny Bone Comedy Club, and has amassed over 25,000 followers across his social media.

Brian Scolaro

Scolaro has appeared on Shameless, Abbott Elementary, Night Court, Dexter, Mad Men, Law And Order: SVU, Bones, Castle, Grey’s Anatomy, The Middle, Men Of A Certain Age, and Girl Meets World, and has also had recurring roles as Brian on A Million Little Things, Uncle Bill on Ten Year Old Tom, Doug on Sullivan and Son, Sergio on Kroll Show, Goblin on Wizards Of Waverly Place, and many roles on Life and Times of Tim. He is known as Stuart, a regular cast member, on FOX’s Stacked, and Gordon on NBC’s Three Sisters.

Rosborough got her start in New York City appearing with the improv troupe Future Schlock, and in the Off-Broadway production of Gay Dracula. Her first stint on television was with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central’s Short Attention Span Theatre. She has been seen on Showtime, Comedy Central, and on BBC’s The World Stands Up.

Brand is the host of the evening and owner of The Stress Factory Comedy Clubs located in New Brunswick, and Fairfield County, Conn.

State Theatre New Jersey is at 15 Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick. Visit stnj.org for tickets.

“Creative Family Tree” on View at New Hope Colony

“JOHN WILLIAM HUNT, 1946”: This portrait by John Folinsbee is part of “Janet Marsh Hunt’s Creative Family Tree,” on view at the New Hope Colony Foundation for the Arts in New Hope, Pa., March 8 through April 13.

Janet Marsh Hunt, a painter and gifted printmaker, was a beloved gallerist and friend to artists for decades before her passing in 2023. As the managing partner at the Coryell Gallery in Lambertville, she mentored hundreds of artists. She was also descended from generations of prominent poets, painters, printmakers, and influential teachers at celebrated art schools.

The New Hope Colony Foundation for the Arts opens the exhibition “Janet Marsh Hunt’s Creative Family Tree,” on Saturday, March 8, from 1to 4 p.m., at 2594 River Road, New Hope, Pa. The exhibition can be seen on Saturdays and Sundays, from 1 to 4 p.m., through April 13. more

Gallery 14 in Hopewell Features Guest Exhibitors

“GALVANIZE”: This photograph by Danielle Austen is part of a new exhibit on view at Gallery 14 Fine Art Photography in Hopewell March 8 through March 30. A reception is on March 9 from 1 to 3 p.m.

Gallery 14 Fine Art Photography in Hopewell has works by guest exhibitors Danielle Austen and Richard Armington, along with Gallery 14 members, March 8 through March 30. A Meet the Artists reception is on Sunday, March 9 from 1 to 3 p.m.

Austen is an award-winning professional fine art photographer specializing in creating intimate portraits of the environment, with a particular emphasis on abstracts found within the landscape. She holds a BFA in fine arts from Cornell University and an MS in communication photography from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. Her artistic endeavors include being chosen for seven artist-in-residency programs, six within the National Parks. Over her 25-year career, she has earned numerous awards in local, national, and international competitions. Her work has also been showcased in over four dozen national and international juried exhibitions and numerous group and solo exhibitions, notably at the Monmouth Museum. As an educator, Austen offers classes, workshops, and private consultations and presents on various topics to photographic societies throughout the region. more

Art at Small World

Watercolor paintings by Indrani Choudhury are featured in a solo exhibition on view through April 1 at Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street. An art reception with refreshments is on Friday, March 7 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Second Annual Members Show, Sale at Phillips’ Mill

“BEST FRIENDS”: This painting by Richard Worzel is part of the Phillips’ Mill Community Association’s Second Annual Mill Members Art Show and Sale, on view March 8, 9, 15, and 16 from 12 to 4 p.m. at Phillips’ Mill in New Hope, Pa.

Members of the Phillips’ Mill Community Association in New Hope, Pa., will be in the spotlight at the Second Annual Mill Members Art Show and Sale. The exhibition will be open for two consecutive weekends, March 8 and 9, and March 15 and 16, from 12 to 4 p.m. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated.

The show will feature more than 500 works of art by over 170 artists, all members of Phillips’ Mill Community Association. An array of fine art and crafts will be represented in the non-juried show including paintings and sculpture, jewelry and textiles, mixed media, ceramics, photography, and works on paper.  more

February 26, 2025

Music in the Movies is Theme of Upcoming Garden Theatre Series

A SAMPLING OF SCORES: Errol Flynn played the lead role in “The Adventures of Robin Hood” to an iconic score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The film is part of a new program focused on music at the Princeton Garden Theatre.

By Anne Levin

It’s hard to imagine the classic Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho without its score by Bernard Hermann. The same might be said of the 1933 version of King Kong minus its music by Max Steiner; or Lawrence of Arabia without its sweeping accompaniment by Maurice Jarre.

Music in the movies is the theme of “Keeping the Score,” a year-long series of screenings at the Princeton Garden Theatre presenting films with iconic music that is “a primary cinematic element which must be seen and heard in a theater,” reads a press release on the series.

The screenings begin March 13 with King Kong. Programming is scheduled through May 18; the remainder of the year is still being planned. more

American Repertory Ballet Premieres Choreographer’s New Take on a Classic

HIGHLAND FLING: Andrea Marini plays the young Scotsman in “The Spirit of the Highlands,” Ethan Stiefel’s new take on a historic ballet at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center March 7-9. (Photo by Harald Schrader)

By Anne Levin

For American Repertory Ballet Artistic Director Ethan Stiefel, adapting the 19th century romantic classic La Sylphide was logical — some might say inevitable. The Spirit of the Highlands, which debuts March 7-9 in New Brunswick, draws from several facets of Stiefel’s life and experience.

The ballet is set in a Scottish village; Stiefel is partly of Scottish descent. During his performing career, he danced the male lead in La Sylphide numerous times. He is an admirer of the Danish choreographer Auguste Bournonville, whose 1836 version of the ballet is the one most frequently presented today.

“It was in the back of my mind for a while,” Stiefel said during a phone conversation. “I’d thought about doing a version of La Sylphide that would work well for this company. Because they have more than the technical ability that is needed. I feel they’ve developed their skills very well in terms of creating characters and acting. All of that is required for this.” more

Looking for Christopher Marlowe

By Stuart Mitchner

When I realized last Saturday was George Washington’s birthday, I looked up former president Bill Clinton’s foreword to Shakespeare in America (Library of America 2013), which refers to Washington leaving the “legislative haggling” at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia to see a production of The Tempest, which, as editor James Shapiro points out, was “based on the story of the wreck of the Sea Venture off the coast of Bermuda in 1609.” The 42nd president — who remembers a high school assignment requiring him to memorize 100 lines from Macbeth, among them “Life’s but a walking shadow” (“an important early lesson in the perils of blind ambition”) — makes sure to mention the time presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson visited Stratford-upon-Avon. Later in the book, as Abigail Adams recalls, Jefferson “fell upon the ground and kissed it” while Adams “cut a relic from a chair claimed to have belonged to Shakespeare himself.”

In the huryburly of February 2025, stories like these suggest a Monty Python sketch in which the current president and his entourage leave a wrestling match between Kit the Kat Marlowe and Will the Shake at the Kennedy Center for a production of Titus Andronicus at the Folger Library, but only if “that’s the play where some loser gets eaten in a pie.” more

Three-Card Monte Defines Two Brothers’ Relationship in “Topdog/Underdog”; Passage Succeeds with a Gritty, Intimate Staging of a Pulitzer-Winning Drama

“TOPDOG/UNDERDOG”: Performances are underway for “Topdog/Underdog.” Written by Suzan-Lori Parks, and directed by marcus d. harvey, the play runs through March 9 at Passage Theatre. Above, from left: brothers Lincoln (Steven St. Pierre) and Booth (Anthony Vaughn Merchant) play a high-stakes game of three-card monte. (Photo by Habiyb Shu’Aib)

By Donald H. Sanborn III

Three-card monte is a gambling game in which the dealer displays three cards. After shuffling the cards and placing them face down, the dealer challenges players to bet that they can correctly locate a certain card. Showmanship and sleight of hand are crucial to successfully manipulating a player, or “mark,” into losing.

In Topdog/Underdog (2001), playwright Suzan-Lori Parks depicts two African American brothers whose tense relationship comes to be defined by three-card monte.

Lincoln is a former hustler who seems to have put the game behind him; Booth aims to emulate his older brother’s success as a dealer. Both brothers, especially Booth, let the game’s concomitant bluffing and calculation extend from the game to their personal interactions, particularly with each other. more

Princeton University Concerts Presents Longtime String Quartet Partner

By Nancy Plum

Over its history, Princeton University Concerts has developed strong collaborative relationships with a wide range of performing organizations specializing in specific composers, but especially the renowned string ensemble Takács Quartet, with their legendary interpretation of Ludwig van Beethoven. The innovative players returned to Richardson Auditorium last Thursday night with more Beethoven, as well as music of Johannes Brahms and British pianist/composer Stephen Hough. With the Takács seasoned artistic identity and Hough’s virtuosic technique, the full house at Richardson was treated to a performance which easily clarified why the Takács musicians have appeared on the Princeton University Concerts series more than 20 times.

Violinists Edward Dusinberre and Harumi Rhodes, violist Richard O’Neill, and cellist András Fejér opened Thursday night’s program with a string quartet from Beethoven’s early period. String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1, full of the composer’s trademark melodic and rhythmic variety, began with chipper “question and answer” passages which the Takács Quartet played with decisive repetitions before launching into a lyrical opening theme. Throughout the movement, the Quartet made the most of uniform silences and sforzando dynamic effects, with second violinist Rhodes particularly leaning into the score.

The dramatic second movement “Adagio” featured an intense melody from first violinist Dusinberre, with Rhodes and violist O’Neill trading lyrical phrases. The rollicking “Scherzo” was played with playful ornaments, and Beethoven’s Quartet closed with the Takács musicians building intensity well, led by Dusinberre. Fejér had a chance to emerge from the texture with energetic solo playing.  more

Traditional Mexican Dances Reflect Several Influences

MEXICAN HERITAGE: Ballet Folklorico de Mexico de Amalia Hernandez comes to State Theatre New Jersey on March 4.

State Theatre New Jersey presents Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández on Tuesday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from $29-$59.

The troupe is composed of more than 70 folk dancers who have performed extensively across Mexico and abroad.

A dancer and a choreographer, Hernández founded Ballet Folklórico de México in 1952. From a very young age, Hernández began a long journey through Mexican culture that would lead her to preserving the traditional dances of Mexico through her work. Today, the company continues to project to the world the beauty of Mexico through movement, from pre-Columbian cultures and Spanish influences to revolutionary times.

With her first performances in 1952, Hernández obtained public recognition as a cultural representative of Mexico. Her success established the company in the Palace of Fine Arts as its permanent venue since October 11, 1959. The repertory includes more than 120 original choreographed works State Theatre New Jersey is at 15 Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick. Visit stnj.org for tickets.