Nov. 25, 2025 (El Cajon) -- The sounds of the holiday season will get a swinging upgrade next month, as the New City Sinfonia and the Downbeat Big Band team up for a special performance featuring Duke ...
Woo, a principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet, tells PEOPLE about the one 'Nutcracker' scene she says feels like doing "ballet on hard mode" Lindsey Rallo/San Francisco Ballet Each year when ...
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San Francisco bandleader, composer, bassist and educator Marcus Shelby never gets tired of performing Duke Ellington's jazzy 1960 "The Nutcracker Suite" based on Tchaikovsky's classic ballet score. "I ...
The "Ebony Nutcracker" is a Columbus-based adaptation of the classic ballet that celebrates Black heritage and culture. Featuring 170 students from Dance ELITE Performance Academy, the show combines ...
The Nutcracker Suite & Spicy is back at the Aetna Theatre at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Dec. 19-21st! It is the only immersive Nutcracker of its kind! This fun for all ages holiday show is ...
To give credit where due, the most recent bout was amplified by a particularly stirring opening-night performance by the English National Ballet Philharmonic, with Maria Seletskaja wielding the stick.
Ballet West’s production of “The Nutcracker” is making history in a bad way, the company says — with a number of fans falling victim to ticket scams. The ballet company reported Monday a “dramatic ...
The Marcus Shelby New Orchestra appears in an SFJazz holiday show on Dec. 21 in San Francisco. (SFJazz via Bay City News) San Francisco bandleader, composer, bassist and educator Marcus Shelby never ...
Urban Nutcracker dancers perform in front of a set depicting the Boston skyline in 2024. (Courtesy of Peter Paradise via Urban Nutcracker) "Urban Nutcracker" opens its 25th season Friday at the Boch ...
Cleveland Ballet dancers rehearse five hours each day, five days per week, for eight weeks. With a few extra hours here and there, dancers spend more than 200 hours practicing their roles. While ...
Boston Ballet soloist Daniel R. Durrett has danced in a production of “The Nutcracker” every single year for the past two decades, with the exception of 2020. Like many ballet dancers, he started ...