The unbounded success of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” movie this summer followed by the Christmas season’s many stagings of “The Nutcracker,” danced to Tchaikovsky’s 1892 score, combined to spark my memory ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – A ballet holiday classic is bringing grand jetés, pirouettes and acrobatics to an Orlando stage. As the story goes, Clara receives a nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve and dreams about ...

It’s a magical twist on the holiday classic that follows Clara as her nutcracker doll comes to life, leading her through a world of leaping lumberjacks, dancing gingerbreads, and swirling snowflakes.

Why is Connecticut Ballet bringing back its Léo Delibes’ “Coppélia”? Because we could all use a laugh. A beautiful, romantic, exquisitely choreographed ballet dancing laugh. The show played the ...

"The Nutcracker" ballet is a classic holiday tradition. The story follows Clara as she falls asleep on Christmas night and her new Nutcracker doll comes to life. The Nutcracker is victorious in a ...

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 ...

Well, of course, you have seen Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” before. You went with your grandmother, yes? She dressed you up in bobby socks and a big red bow when you were nine, is that ...

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 ...

In some of the first moments of the San Francisco Ballet’s “Nutcracker,” dancers hurry across the stage against a picturesque backdrop of the “Painted Ladies” in foggy dusk. Since 2004, Helgi Tomasson ...

The Champaign Urbana Ballet put on a Christmas classic, E. T. A. Hoffmann’s “The Nutcracker,” at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts from Nov. 30 to Dec. 3. “The Nutcracker” is a heartwarming ...