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 ...

Condé Nast Traveler spends a day with New York City Ballet principal Indiana Woodward, as she prepares to dance the Sugar Plum Fairy in George Balanchine’s 'The Nutcracker'. From rainy commutes to ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Royal Ballet’s Nutcracker is a beautiful helping of Christmas entertainment - Tristram Kenton Is there, anywhere in the world, ...

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 ...

Emma Hawes (Sugar Plum Fairy) and Aitor Arrieta (Sugar Plum Cavalier) perform an excerpt from the Sugar Plum pas de deux from the English National Ballet’s “Nutcracker.” Celebrate the rhythms of Latin ...

“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 ...

If you didn’t know any better, the rhythmic thumping of 15 pairs of pointe-shoe-clad feet against the wood floor inside a Macon dance studio could easily be mistaken for an approaching army. Violins ...

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 ...

As always, Ballet Arkansas' annual performance of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" will not endanger any actual nuts. But the 17 members of Ballet Arkansas' professional company and a ...

With its year-after-year performances, a long-burnished classic like “The Nutcracker” gains new glow when a gifted ballerina takes command for the first time of a prominent and career-elevating role.