Much of what today is considered classical ballet is grounded in 15th and 16th century European culture, some of it with ...

An annual tradition takes on a new look to transform how audiences see "The Nutcracker." Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown tells us how one ballet company is helping to make this long-awaited ...

The Santa Cruz Dance Theater will be presenting the 1892 two-act classical ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Saturday and ...

Performers have spent decades in productions of the holiday show, starting as children and moving on to plum roles; ‘the ...

When tackling well-known works like “The Nutcracker,” ballet companies are challenged with not reinventing the wheel. BalletMet has struck the perfect balance between retaining the production ...

Dec. 14, the Kings Theatre in Flatbush was transformed into a classical holiday wonderland, complete with enchanting ...

This rendition was a stunning production coupled with humor, a satisfying amount of human touch, and the usual technical ...

What would Christmas be without the Nutcracker Ballet? It serves as every aspiring ballet dancer’s rite of passage. The ...

The "Nutcracker" is a Bay Area holiday tradition, with the first U.S. production of the iconic Christmas ballet staged in San Francisco 80 years ago. This year, performances were in doubt due to a ...

“The Nutcracker” is a classic for a reason. The show is a holiday tradition at ballet companies around the world, and has served as inspiration for a great many ballerinas who saw it as children and ...

“The Nutcracker” proved to be ideal because of the vast number of children used in the production, at a time when so many able-bodied dancers were enlisted in the military, according to Ballet ...

Miami City Ballet’s George Balanchine’s “The Nutcracker” with choreography ... as a principal in 2021 from Seattle’s Pacific Northwest Ballet, another Balanchine-based company), and ...