by Hannah Chang Foster | Dec 16, 2015 | Everything "Nutcracker", Profiles, TBT
In this clip from The Royal Ballet’s 2000 production of The Nutcracker, a 19-year-old Alina Cojocaru, now a principal with the English National Ballet, does the near impossible: she makes Clara’s adoration for a nutty-looking wooden doll appear genuine....
by Hannah Chang Foster | Dec 13, 2015 | Company Life
What goes into becoming the Sugar Plum Fairy? This Nutcracker season, The Guardian went behind the scenes at The Royal Ballet to find out, zooming in on principal dancer Lauren Cuthbertson as she prepares for the iconic role. The video opens with Cuthbertson walking...
by Pointe Magazine | Dec 1, 2015 | Company Life
Christmas came early this year for Elizabeth Murphy. Last Friday, the Pacific Northwest Ballet dancer made her debut as the Sugar Plum Fairy in the company premiere of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker. But the excitement didn’t stop there. Just...