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 Rosica | 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 Rosica | 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 Rosica | 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...