by Kyra Laubacher | Dec 10, 2020 | Everything "Nutcracker", Instagram, News, Onstage
As COVID-19 lockdowns, restrictions and mandates have forced ballet companies to alter their seasons, many have transformed the ways they bring performances to their audiences. The time-honored Nutcracker is no exception. While some companies, like Orlando Ballet,...
by Gavin Larsen | Dec 9, 2020 | Everything "Nutcracker", Higher Ed, News, Onstage
Earlier this year, anticipating the ongoing repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, University of North Carolina School of the Arts’ interim dean of dance, Jared Redick, started looking ahead to their annual Nutcracker performances. In May, he and the deans of...
by Julia Guiheen | Dec 2, 2020 | Viral Videos
Updated 12/1/22. In this clip from 1964, former New York City Ballet principals Patricia McBride and Edward Villella perform a pas de deux as Marie and the Nutcracker Prince, choreographed by Kurt Jacob. The footage, from a made-for-TV Nutcracker movie that originally...
by Cory Stieg For Dance Magazine | Nov 26, 2020 | Company Life, Everything "Nutcracker", Onstage
To some dancers, a winter without The Nutcracker may seem like a gift. No Tchaikovsky on an endless loop. No missing real parties to dance in the party scene. No pulling fake snow out of your hair. It’s the stuff that burned-out ballerinas might dream about in...
by Jacqueline Callahan | Oct 13, 2020 | Career, Company Life, Everything "Nutcracker", News, Training
One afternoon in mid-June, Pennsylvania Ballet’s dancers, administrative staff, school faculty and orchestra members gathered via Zoom to learn the devastating news: We would not return to the stage in the year 2020. Some turned off their cameras to process....
by Lucy Van Cleef | Dec 25, 2019 | Everything "Nutcracker", News
The Nutcracker has been a dancer’s tradition for over 125 years. As a student at Russia’s Imperial Ballet School in Saint Petersburg in the early 1900s, a young George Balanchine performed in the original production of The Nutcracker, created in 1892, at...
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...