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 ...

With its controversial plot and demanding technique, this last of the great Russian imperial ballets is rarely performed in ...

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 ...

Nevada Dance Company’s 33rd Annual Nutcracker Ballet will include four performances featuring ... will demonstrate a crowd-pleasing performance as the Arabian soloist. The Russian dance will feature ...

that “The Nutcracker” became a holiday staple. Balanchine, the Russian-born founder of the New York City Ballet, brought his classical training in dance and music from St. Petersburg as well ...

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.” ...

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 ...

English National Ballet has swapped Russian sweets in its ... In 2021, the Royal Ballet’s own Nutcracker production reduced the number of female dancers in a dance of magical Arabian sweets ...

A Russian ballet dancer who ... Beauty,” “Swan Lake,” “The Nutcracker” and “Don Quixote,” among many others. The American Ballet Theater mourned him as “an extraordinary artist ...

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 ...