About half of the revenue for American ballet companies each year comes from the cozy seasonal favorite "The Nutcracker." Since COVID, they have become even more dependent on those sugarplum fairies.

It's 10 a.m. on a Friday and Sara Mearns is in her dressing room wearing a purple chunky-knit sweater with her hair down, tousled and tossed to one side. Her casual appearance isn't what you might ...

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It’s worth seeing this spellbinding production, however Crimboed-out you’re currently feeling Mark Monahan never really stood a chance. In the Sixties, his mother danced for five years with what was ...

On December 20 and 21, watch the Petoskey native dance with her hometown alma mater, the Crooked Tree Arts Center School of Ballet. The Crooked Tree Arts Center (CTAC) School of Ballet's upcoming ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Just a year after giving birth to her first child, Ballet West principal artist Jenna Rae Herrera is back in the spotlight performing almost every night in the holiday classic "The ...

At this time last year, Nicholas Patterson could barely walk from chemotherapy. Now he is dancing with the Sugar Plum Fairy. After battling cancer, Philadelphia Ballet dancer Nicholas Patterson is ...

When it comes to the ballet classic Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, you'll find that each company strives to find a way to make it their own. And this year, The Washington Ballet turned to the rendition ...

“This is something that a lot of ballerinas dream to do,” said Anna McKinney. She’s referring to performing the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy in Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” ballet. “I’m elated,” she ...

The Sugar Plum Fairy forgot her makeup. “It’s all backstage, I’m sorry!” she says, emerging fresh-faced from her Northeast Portland home into the Sunday morning drizzle. Charlotte Nash, a 27-year-old ...

In Chicago this season, you can find a jazzy Duke Ellington version, a global “Nutcracker” with hip-hop mice and the 50th anniversary of the holiday story on ice, as well as the Joffrey Ballet’s ...

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