Unity Phelan dishes on playing the Sugar Plum Fairy in "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker," and shares how the famous New York City Ballet production hasn't changed in over 70 years! Unity also ...

Alabama Ballet’s performance of The Nutcracker is a favorite holiday activity for Birminghamians of all ages. The local dance company expertly performs the classic ballet in a beautiful spectacle of ...

New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck takes us through her entire routine as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker. As she gets ready for the iconic third movement in the pas de deux, ...

The Washington Post ran a rave review when Atlanta Ballet premiered Yuri Possokhov’s thrilling “Nutcracker” at the Kennedy Center Opera House in December 2019. Dance critic Sarah L. Kaufman described ...

Submitted photo Graduating senior dancers at Ballet Western Reserve will dance the principal roles in this year’s production of “The Nutcracker.” The senior dancers are, kneeling from left, Faith ...

During her first year at Dance Creations Academy, freshman Sophie Mentele watched the former Sugar Plum Fairy practice. At that moment, her mind wandered as she began to imagine herself in the role.

With its sparkling celesta and dreamlike rhythm, “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” has become a sonic hallmark of Christmas. But its festive identity is a modern invention. Born in a 19th-century ...

A little leg, a lot of crinoline … and a handlebar mustache? This “Nutcracker” isn’t your grandmother’s “Nutcracker.” But it could — apart from a polymorphous-perverse twist or two — have been your ...

Jazz NutCracker, my jazz adaptation of "The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set to the Fleischer Studio classic short "Christmas Come But Once A Year," from 1936.