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Until now, wokeness has been mainly an American phenomenon. But it has crossed the pond, as seen by an act of the Berlin State Ballet: The company canceled The Nutcracker. [...]

CRACKING NUTS WILL BE MORE OF AN ADVENTURE THAN USUAL THIS YEAR. Two LEADING STATESIDE COMPANIES, THE SAN FRANCISCO BALLET AND THE WASHINGTON BALLET, WILL UNVEIL NEW PRODUCTIONS THAT BLEND [...]

THE LIGHTS DIMMED, the curtain rose, and my then 8-year-old daughter, Ginny, was mesmerized. I had seen The Nutcracker many times before, but that day Ginny was seeing it for [...]

Byline: Gia Kourlas New York City Ballet's Megan and Robert Fairchild have risen through the company's ranks so swiftly that Andrew Veyette, a principal dancer (and Megan's boyfriend), has coined [...]

NEW YORK -- Christmas in New York -- everybody loves it. One of its most cherished institutions, New York City Ballet's 'The Nutcracker,' has enchanted generations of children, who have [...]

The American Ballet Theatre brought its sumptuous production of 'The Nutcracker' to the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland on Friday. A special 'Family Day' benefit Sunday for the ABT [...]

Leggz Ltd. Dance is seeking dancers for full-length 'Nutcracker' with the South Shore Symphony orchestra. Seeking: males and females, ages seven-and-a-half to adult, classically ballet-trained. Performance pay for grand, snow [...]

Many dance companies are turning to pop culture for evening-length substitutes to that traditional Christmas cash cow, The Nutcracker. The desire to keep old audiences while attracting new ones has [...]

Joffrey's isn't the only new Nutcracker. Check out these other fresh takes. HOUSTON BALLET Artistic director Stanton Welch is using Ben Stevenson's much-loved version as a leaping-off point for his [...]

There are many memorable moments in Alexei Ratmansky's The Nutcracker--from a baby mouse wreaking havoc in the Stahlbaums' kitchen to Clara and her Nutcracker Prince meeting their adult selves amid [...]

The Nutcracker may be a holiday classic, but there's no reigning version. Or is there? Each year Ovation's 'Battle of the Nutcrackers' screens several, and asks viewers to vote for [...]

Clad in a mouse outfit, complete with whiskers and a black nose, six-year-old Diannah Snyder-Diffen waits by the backstage curtain, watching the dancers of the Sacramento Ballet Company leap and [...]

NEW YORK CITY--American Bailet Theatre will revive Echoing of Trumpets, a ballet by Antony Tudor that details the horrors of war, during its season at the Metropolitan Opera House, from [...]

For some companies, year after year, The Nutcracker is mainly an exercise in exhaustion. Not so at Sacramento Ballet. 'I love The Nutcracker. I am Mr. Nutcracker,' says co-director Ron [...]

Two cities that have their Nutcracker plates more than full this month are L.A. and DC. While Los Angeles Ballet's production by directors Thordal Christensen and Colleen Neary runs Dec. [...]

In Mikko Nissinen's 10 years at the helm of Boston Ballet, he navigated the strained separation from the company's former residence, the Wang Theater, among many other things. Now that [...]

TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker; Piano Concerto 2 Emil Gilels, State Symphony/Svetlanov Melodiya 409 [2CD] 131 minutes The ballets of Tchaikovsky continue to hold wide appeal to the record buyer, and it […]

Here's what we know about the new Nutcracker that Alexei Ratmansky is making for American Ballet Theatre: The leads, on different nights, include Gillian Murphy and David Hallberg, Veronika Part [...]