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I couldn’t have been more than seven or eight years old, but I remember going to the Nutcracker with my family.  Beautiful dancers, a charming story and first memories of seeing the ballet. And now starts a new tradition.  In a few weeks...

Christopher Wheeldon creates a working-class holiday ballet. Twelve-year-old Christopher Wheeldon was annoyed. He had been cast as Fritz in Sir Peter Wright’s Nutcracker at The Royal Ballet, but on this particular night in 1985, another boy was playing...

Set in 1895, The Yorkville Nutcracker takes the audience on an action-packed tour of Olde New York’s most beloved landmarks, including a holiday party at Gracie Mansion, dancing at the Crystal Palace in the New York Botanical Garden, and skating...

Claudia Schreier’s first memory of choreographing is from a summer camp talent show. She selected the “Coffee/Arabian” music from The Nutcracker. “I took it so seriously, and I lost myself in the music,” Schreier says. “I remember being on stage and...

I was recently invited to style Ballet Imperial for The Australian Ballet’s blog, Behind Ballet. The Ballet is combining two one-act ballets, George Balanchine’s Ballet Imperial and Serge Lifar’s Suite en blanc, as the Imperial...