Dance companies presenting renditions of Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” ballet have become as synonymous with the Christmas season as decorated trees and Santa Claus. Audiences who come to see the ...

Ballet Ariel’s 2025 holiday season production brings fresh looks at two classics: Little Women and the Nutcracker Suite. From ...

Winner of the People’s Choice award and overall 2nd prizewinner of the 2004 Sydney International Piano Competition, Rem Urasin’s brilliant performance of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto catapulted ...

Tchaikovsky composed his “Nutcracker Suite” in 1892, and choreographers have been trying to crack it open ever since. Some choreographers revere tradition, while others evoke the latest dance styles.

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Some 120 years have passed since The Nutcracker ballet was first performed in St Petersburg. And when it was first performed in 1892 it enjoyed nowhere near the popularity it does today. The ballet ...

Guest conductor Andrew Grams leads the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker' at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. Lawrence Jenkins / Special ...