Thursday, December 1, 2011
The Cunningham company's Repertory Understudy Group, known as the RUGs, ended performances at the Cunningham Studio.
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David Hallberg, a principal dancer with American Ballet Theater, will join the Bolshoi Ballet of Moscow, the first American to do so.
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New York City Ballet's touring ensemble made its debut in Vail, Colo., with old and new works like Jerome Robbins's "Dances at a Gathering" and Christopher Wheeldon's "Polyphonia."
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New York City Ballet presents a triple bill with music by Richard Rodgers, Duke Ellington and Leonard Bernstein.
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Whenever anyone tells you they want never to hear the "Nutcracker" music again, you know they haven't really been listening to it.
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This is the 25th "Nutcracker" production I've seen this season, and of the 23 I've seen for the first time it strikes me as the most perfect.
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In truth this doesn't remotely qualify as Greatest Anything. The music is taped; lighting problems cause several awkward blackouts during the performance; when the Christmas tree grows, it c…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:15PMThe audience for David Parker's "Nut/Cracked," admittedly, has little in common with most "Nutcracker" audiences.
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
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In Harlem, the "15th Annual Black Nutcracker" makes surprising connections between African dance and ballet.
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Ballet companies across America have plenty of "Nutcracker" merchandise, but are they missing a few tricks?
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
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In this version, with the dressiest audience in the country, the Nutcracker introduces Clara to his wife, the Snow Queen, and then takes Clara to meet his other friend, the Sugar Plum Fairy…
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Saturday, December 4, 2010
Delving into an archive from Russia that offers peeks of the 1892 premiere production of "The Nutcracker."
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Thursday, December 2, 2010
A "Nutcracker" in a mansion in Newport, R.I., offers some interesting interactions between audience and dancers.
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To get an idea of how central "The Nutcracker" is to American ballet, look at how central it is to the Colorado Ballet (which this season celebrates its 50th anniversary).
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
A reader writes about her son's long-ago experience with "The Nutcracker." Fast-forward several years and look who's being reviewed as a professional dancer?
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