by Avichai Scher | Dec 19, 2019 | Career, Everything Nutcracker, Instagram
The holiday season is a time when dusty ornaments and wreaths get trotted out of their boxes for their annual moment to shine. For Jennifer Goodman, there’s another item she looks forward to pulling out of the back of her closet: pointe shoes. Goodman, 45,...
by Julia Guiheen | Dec 18, 2019 | Everything Nutcracker, Training
Eleven-year-old Stella DiPasquale is preparing to make her debut as Marie this weekend in Fadeyev Ballet’s Nutcracker in Greenvale, New York. Decked out in curls and party frills onstage, she’ll stand out as the lucky girl who is given a nutcracker doll on...
by Julia Guiheen | Dec 18, 2019 | Everything Nutcracker, TBT
On December 18, 1965, The Bell Telephone Hour broadcast a Christmas special featuring New York City Ballet principal dancers Melissa Hayden and Jacques d’Amboise. The pair performed the Snow Pas de Deux from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, choreographed by...
by Madeline Schrock For Dance Magazine | Dec 16, 2019 | Career, Everything Nutcracker, News
A few months ago, Dayton Ballet’s artistic director, Karen Russo Burke, approached Miranda Dafoe with an unorthodox idea: She wanted to cast a woman in the role of the Nutcracker in the company’s holiday production, and she was tapping Dafoe. “I...
by Julia Guiheen | Dec 4, 2019 | Everything Nutcracker, Viral Videos
For many a bunhead, “The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” is not just a holiday tradition, but a rite of passage. The variation, with its tinkling celesta, bourrées and petit battus, is one that all ballet dancers are familiar with, and getting the...
by Rachel Caldwell For Dance Magazine | Dec 4, 2019 | Everything Nutcracker, News
Marie and Franz have a new guest at their Christmas Eve party this year. Emma Lookatch and Larke Johnson, both dancers in the Adaptive Dance Program at Joffrey Academy of Dance: Official School of The Joffrey Ballet, are alternating in the new role of Worker Girl. It...
by Cadence Neenan For Dance Spirit | Dec 3, 2019 | Everything Nutcracker, News, Training
For any young dancer performing in The Nutcracker, Marie (aka Clara, depending on the production) is a dream role. But Charlotte Nebres, who will be playing Marie in New York City Ballet’s Nutcracker this year isn’t just bringing her own dream to...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Dec 2, 2019 | Everything Nutcracker, News
By this point in the year, Nutcracker has already taken over most parts of your life. So why not let it play a role in your Instagram stories too? Thanks to Boston Ballet digital design manager Lauren Pajer, now it can. Pajer has just created a series of Nutcracker...