Nashville Ballet has announced the final details and talented principal cast of company dancers that will lead the beloved ...

Composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky was in Paris when he was introduced to an amazing new instrument. Called the celesta, this percussion instrument looked like a small upright piano but sounded like a ...

NEW YORK — We all know it. The enchanting melody of “The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” from Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker,” which returns to New York City Ballet on Friday for its annual run through Dec.

Here are some tips from regional dancers and teachers to help ballet novices get the most from local ballet productions of ...

In the 1890s, when the Russian composer Tchaikovsky was preparing to write the music for the ballet that would become his holiday classic, “The Nutcracker,” he encountered a brand-new instrument: the ...

Classic Christmas confection danced beautifully and with heart - 4/5 Viola Pantuso’s Clara travels from her family home in ...

MAYBE THOSE COOLER TEMPERATURES WILL HELP WITH THAT AS WELL. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A BELOVED HOLIDAY TRADITION THAT’S SOON RETURNING TO THE TRIAD. YEAH, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ...

He's been a Tony-awarded lyricist and director of "Forbidden Broadway," but now Gerard Alessandrini has taken on a new role. Exterminator. In his new version of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" — ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Originally created for the Birmingham Royal Ballet in 1990, Sir Peter Wright's ...