by Chava Pearl Lansky | Dec 19, 2017 | Everything Nutcracker, News, Viral Videos
Can’t get enough Nutcracker? Don’t fear. Tween clothing brand Justice has just released a web series called “Finding Clara,” which follows four young dancers cast as Clara in BalletMet’s production of The Nutcracker. The first three...
by Amy Brandt | Oct 9, 2017 | Everything Nutcracker
Houston Ballet has a message for Mother Nature: Don’t mess with Nutcracker. After flooding from Hurricane Harvey caused extensive damage to the Wortham Center, Houston ballet’s home theater, the company was forced to reschedule and relocate two of its...
by Amy Brandt | Sep 18, 2017 | Everything Nutcracker, News
After Hurricane Harvey flooded Houston Ballet’s facilities and damaged its home theater, the Wortham Center, the company wasted no time finding temporary rehearsal space and rescheduling its first two programs of the season at the nearby Hobby Center. But today,...
by Amy Brandt | Oct 12, 2016 | Company Life
Mark your calendars! This Sunday, the Bolshoi Ballet, in partnership with Fathom Events, kicks off its 2016-17 Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema Series. Between now and April, seven Bolshoi productions will be high-beamed to movie theaters around the world (400 in the U.S....
by Suzannah Friscia | Dec 24, 2015 | Everything Nutcracker, News
For so many dancers, The Nutcracker is how they get their first glimpse of the ballet world. And for audiences who flock to the theater year after year to see their favorite version, it always somehow manages to keep its magical quality. Today, Lincoln Center will...
by Hannah 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 Pointe Magazine | Dec 15, 2015 | Company Life
What do the Nutcracker and the circus have in common? A whole lot if you’re a dancer at Sarasota Ballet, where Matthew Hart has reimagined the holiday classic as John Ringling’s Circus Nutcracker. The whimsical production, which honors Sarasota as the...
by Amy Brandt | Nov 15, 2011 | Career, Everything Nutcracker, Training
Timeless as it may be, The Nutcracker has undergone a number of face-lifts. Yet for all the changes in setting, story and characterizations, the Sugar Plum Fairy variation always looks the same—well, sort of. A loose blueprint of Lev Ivanov’s original...