The Ballerina Peach, Georgia Birenbaum, is a kindergartener at Doyle Elementary by day and Ballet Prodigy by night! At just 5 years old, when many children are still taking an afternoon nap, Georgia Peach leaves kindergarten to attend dance classes four days a week is spending her weekends in the ballet studio rehearsing for The Nutcracker. She is debuting as “The Tiniest Mouse” and will be opening and closing The American Repertory Ballet’s The Nutcracker this season. She is the youngest ever in American Repertory Ballet's, The Nutcracker.
The Peach was born a ballerina. According to her parents, Darby and Bradley Birenbaum, she never crawled but began walking at 8 months old. Her parents do not have a dance background, but after watching her perform original numbers with stacking cups on her feet, her parents decided to buy her a tutu and enroll her in ballet for her first birthday. At 16 months-old her dance teacher marveled at her cashew feet, a term used to describe the perfect ballet foot.
The Ballerina Peach is in her second year of attending weekly ballet classes at both The School of American Ballet in NYC and Princeton Ballet School in NJ. On top of her Tri-State training schedule, she is taking both contemporary and lyrical at Debra Sparks Dance Works in Newtown.
When Georgia was asked, “Why she likes to dance?” She simply said, “Because it's in my heart!”
Her performance Dates at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ are November 29 at 7 p.m. and December 1 at 1 p.m. She performs at the State Theatre located at 15 Livingston Avenue New Brunswick, NJ on December 22. For more information, visit www.arballet.org/event/nut.