Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre has commemorated quite a few landmarks on its timeline in recent years.

The year 2022 marked 30 years since the first staging of "The Nutcracker — A Tale From the Bayou," an original Louisiana rendition of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's classic Christmas ballet.

In 2024, that ballet's creators, Molly Buchmann and Sharon Mathews, retired after 48 years as the company's co-artistic directors.

That led to the 2024-25 season with the company moving forward with new co-artistic directors Rebecca Acosta and Jonna Cox.

Entering it 65th year

Now the company has begun its 65th year by adding a fourth performance to its regular season.

Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre has turned 65 in the new season, and Acosta and Cox are moving forward into the next 65 years with plans to gi

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