It was George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker that first fueled his desire to become a dancer.
“I was about 11 and first saw the production on TV. And I knew then and there that’s what I wanted to do,” says Jermel Johnson ’07, now a principal dancer with the Pennsylvania Ballet, enjoying his 17th season and dancing in the very same production that first spurred him on.
Read the full story in the Philadelphia Tribune.