The bravura “Russian” dance — with its deep squats ... expressions of tenderness and grace in the ballet canon. In this country, “Nutcracker” versions by Willam Christensen for the ...

It takes some doing in this country to be more than about 25 miles from a production of “The Nutcracker” during the Christmas season. The ballet has become as American as Friday Night Lights ...

Among the 20th century’s most significant choreographers, he led the Bolshoi Ballet for more than 30 years, creating epic ...

The classic, with music by Russian ... Nutcracker is often the first—or only—ballet the public sees. The ballet also enchants dancers who have performed in it. “One of my favorite roles to ...

back to live “Nutcracker” performances with a local ballet company. It was the same scenario: a dance company that had turned to recorded music because, he says, “orchestras are not cheap.” ...

Set to a score by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and based on E.T.A. Hoffman’s 1816 short story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” the 1892 Russian ballet is the holiday story of a girl who receives a ...

He was a towering figure in the field of dance as the Soviet Russian choreographer who ran Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre during the last three decades of the U.S.S.R. The ballet announced his death ...

Is it any wonder that The Nutcracker is one of the most popular ballets in the country, if not the world? Yet when you dig into the Russian roots ... bouncy “Chinese” dance, with its pleated ...