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Nick Mullikin: Celebrating Nashville Ballet’s 40th Anniversary Season

Nashville Ballet Artistic Director Nick Mullikin is a passionate champion of contemporary dance. That probably explains why his company is opening its 40th anniversary season with a new dance that pays homage to the life and music of Elvis Presley. The upcoming season will also feature such classics as The Nutcracker and Swan Lake, as well as a contemporary dance inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. In this episode of MACC Talk, Mullikin joins host John Pitcher to discuss the new season and the importance of dance in a creative city like Nashville. The episode is sponsored by Nashville Interiors Magazine.

Nashville Ballet’s 40th Anniversary season includes the following performances:

October 10-12, 2025
If I Can Dream at TPAC
Featuring the music of Elvis Presley and choreographed by Travis Bradley
Paired with George Balanchine’s Rubies and Jiří Kylián’s Un Ballo

November 29 – December 28, 2025
Nashville’s Nutcracker at TPAC
Story adaption, choreography, and direction by Paul Vasterling

February 27 – March 1, 2026
Swan Lake at TPAC
Story adaptation and choreography by Paul Vasterling

May 1-3, 2026
Sherlock at TPAC
Paired with Maria Konrad’s DEA and Donald Byrd’s Wake the Neighbors

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Robin Willis

HEALING ARTS COORDINATOR

Robin Willis is the MACC’s Healing Arts Coordinator. She also works as the Exhibition and Events Manager and Director of Outreach. Robin has a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Clemson University with a minor in Entrepreneurship. She is a multi-discipline artist with emphasis in writing, mixed media abstract painting, alternative process photography, collage, and book arts and binding. In addition to her art practices, she holds several healing modalities certificates, such as extensive kundalini yoga teacher training and education, Reiki master, systemic family constellation facilitator, and depth psychology-based therapy trainings. As an avid learner, she explores and encourages others in their exploration in art, psyche, and our relationship to the micro and macro worlds within and around us. Influenced by John Muir’s quote, When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe, she fuses art, healing, and organization throughout her work and personal life as a creative-scientist minded person.

Kaylin Warden

Creative Design and Operations Manager

Kaylin Warden serves as the MACC’s Creative Design and Operations Manager. In this post, she oversees the organization’s graphic design work for exhibitions, events and special projects. She also coordinates the MACC’s arts outreach activities and assists with bookkeeping, among other duties. Kaylin, above all, is passionate about the arts. It comes as no surprise, then, that she is now pursuing a master’s degree in art history. When she’s not at the MACC, you can find her reading her favorite books (especially ones dealing with maritime mysteries), cooking, gardening, playing with her cat and two dogs, and cheering for the Nashville Predators.

Ruth Chase

Regional Arts Director
Ruth Chase is the Regional Arts Director of Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center, joining the team in 2023. For Ruth, the job is all about community, bringing people together to uplift and educate artists and art lovers alike. Her role at Monthaven is to strengthen the local artist community and build connections that will enrich Hendersonville and our surrounding communities through art exhibitions, art education, and opportunities for regional artists.
 
Prior to joining Monthaven, Ruth worked in the arts for over 30 years and is a multimedia artist and graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute. Her artistic practice is inquiry-based and engages in community bridge-building. She was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation from the City of Los Angeles, curated and juried exhibitions, and has taught at the Crocker Art Museum.
 
Ruth was awarded an Artist-in-Residence for Artist Activating Communities through a grant from the California Arts Council for three consecutive years. Her film Belonging screened at both the 18th Annual Nevada City Film Festival and Wild & Scenic Film Festival. She has received the Legendary Female Artist of Venice award, and she has exhibited in The Crocker Kingsley, the Museum of Northern California Art, and the Diego Rivera Gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute. Ruth also continues her work as a Curatorial Consultant and Art director for the Californian Indigenous Research Project, where she has worked with the local tribe since 2018. 
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