by Sophie Bress | Dec 2, 2024 | Everything "Nutcracker", News, Onstage, The Latest
Nutcracker season is important for every ballet company, but this year is especially momentous for Ballet West. Not only is the company celebrating 80 years of its version of the production, but the ballet was also named a “living historic landmark” by the State of...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Dec 10, 2017 | Career, Everything "Nutcracker"
Literary Roots E.T.A. Hoffmann, a German writer, penned the eerie and dark tale “Nutcracker and Mouse King” in 1816. About 30 years later, the French writer Alexandre Dumas took the Nutcracker story into his own hands, lightening things up and softening...