In 2021, the Royal Ballet’s own Nutcracker production reduced the number of female dancers in a dance of magical Arabian sweets, in order that the performance was less suggestive of a “harem”.

National Ballet’s Nutcracker will have suffragettes alongside sugar plums in feminist revamp Tchaikovsky’s ballet updated for modern audiences to make plot more of a journey of self-discovery ...

National Ballet of Canada’s new triple bill, Frontiers, is headlined by none other than Crystal Pite. One of the three Canadian dancemakers the programme embraces, she is among the most ...

Courtesy of The National Ballet of Canada The bearer of the titular Nutcracker is Uncle Nikolai, here a sort of magician in full cossack garb. Spinning like a whirling dervish, principal artist ...

Hope Muir, Joan and Jerry Lozinski Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, today announced the casting for The Nutcracker, Toronto's most joyful holiday experience.

The National Ballet of Canada has one of the finest versions in James Kudelka’s staging from 1995, which opens at a Christmas Eve party in rural 19th-century Russia.

The program’s oldest ballet, “Concerto” (1966), by Kenneth MacMillan, was dedicated to the Canadian-born Lynn Seymour, a radiant, dramatic Royal Ballet dancer who died in March.

Heather Ogden stars as the Sugar Plum Fairy and Guillaume Côté is the Nutcracker in James Kudelka's production of the cherished classic. Bruce Zinger/Courtesy of The National Ballet of Canada.

The National Ballet of Canada has cancelled remaining performances of "The Nutcracker" in Toronto due to COVID-19 cases within company ranks.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — For many, it’s not Christmas without the dance of Clara, Uncle Drosselmeyer, the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Mouse King and, of course, the Nutcracker Prince. But this year the ...