by Lindsay Martell | Dec 8, 2021 | Adult Ballet Students, Everything "Nutcracker", Training
Preparing for Nutcracker season is always an exhilarating rush—and not just for ballet students and professionals. In local productions from Berkeley to Houston to New York City, many adult recreational dancers take on roles in the holiday classic too. When you’re a...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Dec 20, 2020 | Health & Body, Wellness
If you find yourself with extra downtime this Nutcracker season, but counterintuitively higher stress levels, you’re likely not alone. “COVID-19 has been this underlying baseline stress in the back of everybody’s lives. Whether you realize it or not,...
by Julia Rosica | Dec 16, 2020 | TBT
In need of extra Nutcracker cheer? Watching Dame Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes, two former stars of The Royal Ballet, dance the ballet’s grand pas de deux is an instant fix. In this clip from a 1958 Nutcracker television broadcast, even black and white film...
by Emma Love Suddarth | Dec 15, 2020 | Career, Everything "Nutcracker", Instagram
“What is that?” the TSA agent asked last year when I placed the giant circular bag onto the conveyer belt. “It’s a tutu—for ballet. You know…like The Nutcracker?” I was quick to explain. “Oh, I see. How do you plan on...
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 Rosica | 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...