The story opens on Christmas Eve with a busy party scene with six dancing couples and many young dancers recruited from the community. During the celebration Herr Drosselmeyer presents his goddaughter ...

Madeline Woo is a principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet — where the first ever full-length production of The Nutcracker was performed in the United States Woo has danced in her fair share of ...

Cincinnati Ballet’s The Nutcracker really gets started, as all productions of this iconic ballet do, with a Christmas party. It’s an overwhelming scene to take in as mothers and fathers stand idle ...

The Colorado West Performing Arts Company will present eight performances of the holiday ballet “The Nutcracker” from Dec. 19–23 at Asteria Theatre, 864 Bunting ...

Dreams are brought to life annually at Milwaukee’s Marcus Center when the Milwaukee Ballet is in the building each December. But their popular “Nutcracker” is now dreamier than ever as the company ...

Clara’s ballet dream begins as it always does — with the Rat King. The Rat King, known also as the Mouse King, transforms with each ballet performance from a seven-headed rodent on two legs to a robed ...

HOLIDAY CLASSIC, BUT WITH EVERY PIROUETTE. THESE DANCERS ARE BRINGING TO LIFE A PERFORMANCE LIKE ANY OTHER IN THE UNMISTAKABLY MARYLAND NUTCRACKER, WE HAVE POE’S RAVEN, AND WE HAVE LEMON STICKS. OUR ...

It's time once again for visions of sugarplums, dancing snowflakes and feisty rodents for all ages. Set to the masterpiece score by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (in most cases), E.T.A. Hoffman's story "The ...

Ballet lovers will all have their own relationship with Sir Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker. Since 1984, it has brought cosy familiarity and festive charm to the Royal Ballet’s repertoire and over the ...

Each year when the holidays roll around, hundreds of ballet companies across the country dust off their candy canes and carefully unpack their nutcrackers from storage in preparation to meet the ...