Category: The Nutcracker

  • Nutcracker Online Performances 2020

    Nutcracker Online Performances 2020

    List and Reviews of the best Nutcracker Online Performances 2020 by your favorite ballet companies around the world.

  • Tulsa Ballet Review: Stepping Out of The Nutcracker Box

    Tulsa Ballet Review: Stepping Out of The Nutcracker Box

    December 18, 2020 – Tulsa Ballet Review of The Lost Nutcracker explores this holiday performance featuring choreography by Ma Cong, Joshua L. Peugh, and Luciano Cannito.

  • Atlanta Ballet Review: A Nutcracker Full of Surprises

    Atlanta Ballet Review: A Nutcracker Full of Surprises

    November 27, 2019 Atlanta Ballet The Nutcracker Washington, D.C. The ballet holiday season has officially begun with Atlanta Ballet’s The Nutcracker at The Kennedy Center. D.C. audiences are the first outside of Atlanta to see this theatrical multi-media production that premiered last year in the company’s home state. Yuri Possokhov‘s fast-paced choreography aligns appropriately with the…

  • Tulsa Ballet Celebrates 50 years of The Nutcracker

    Tulsa Ballet Celebrates 50 years of The Nutcracker

    Tulsa Ballet will be performing the holiday classic The Nutcracker for the fiftieth year at Tulsa Performing Arts Center from December 7-22, 2020. There is a reason why The Nutcracker has continuously charmed the hearts of families all around the Tulsa area for 50 years. It’s not just because of the surreal magical moment snow…

  • The Kennedy Center Presents Atlanta Ballet in The Nutcracker

    The Kennedy Center Presents Atlanta Ballet in The Nutcracker

    For its annual holiday production for 2019, the Kennedy Center presents Atlanta Ballet in The Nutcracker. This production made its debut in 2018 with choreography by Yuri Possokhov set to Tchaikovsky’s score. This will be the first time Atlanta Ballet performs at the Kennedy Center. Atlanta Ballet joins the robust list of American ballet companies to…

  • Maurice Sendak’s Designs for The Nutcracker

    Maurice Sendak’s Designs for The Nutcracker

    When we hear the name Maurice Sendak, our mind can’t help but to immediately think of his oh so famous picture book Where the Wild Things Are. The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City wants to expand our horizons and knowledge of the artist by presenting an exhibit titled Drawing the Curtain: Maurice Sendak’s…

  • An Interview with Graham Lustig: On Nutcracker and Bees

    An Interview with Graham Lustig: On Nutcracker and Bees

    Graham Lustig After a successful opening of its 2018-2019 season with Luna Mexicana, Oakland Ballet Company is ready to head back to the Paramount Theatre to perform Artistic Director Graham Lustig’s The Nutcracker on December 22 and 23. This is truly a production filled with local talent; along with his company dancers, the Oakland Symphony and the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir…

  • Test Your Nutcracker Ballet Knowledge

    Test Your Nutcracker Ballet Knowledge

    You’ve danced or seen the ballet for years, perhaps even decades! Are you up to the challenge to take this Nutcracker ballet quiz to see what you really know?

  • Ballet West Review: The Most Stunning Nutcracker of Them All

    Ballet West Review: The Most Stunning Nutcracker of Them All

    December 6, 2018 Ballet West The Nutcracker Washington D.C. The Nutcracker is a holiday classic that you can find in almost every American city – big or small – and this year our nation’s most prominent performing arts center The Kennedy Center presents Ballet West as their Christmas stars this season. There is no doubt why Willam…

  • Chinese Stereotypes in Ballet

    Chinese Stereotypes in Ballet

    It’s that time of the year when we start hearing Tchaikovsky’s music from The Nutcracker everywhere we go – in restaurants, in shops, and of course at the theatre. This holiday classic is ubiquitous during the Christmas season so much so that even those who are not frequenters of the ballet are familiar with the tunes. Perhaps…