Q: Last Christmas, I took my grandchildren to The Nutcracker, a ballet I love. My enjoyment was severely marred by the appearance of a black snowflake and then, even worse, a black Snow King. The ...

The weather outside was stormy and warmish. Inside the Houston Ballet's wardroom shop, it was chilly enough to craft snowflakes. There, in a space that looks like a cross between a kitchen and a ...

Across the United States each fall, ballet dancers prepare for their annual appearances in “The Nutcracker.” A time-tested holiday tradition, this ballet supports everything else a ballet company will ...

The iconic tale of “The Nutcracker” is gloriously revived this year through a range of different productions in and around Boston, from classic stagings to modern adaptations that celebrate a variety ...

While Tchaikovsky’s “Waltz of the Snowflakes” averages just over six minutes in length, the physical and mental preparation of those Snowflakes has most likely started weeks or even months before ...

During the opening minutes of "The Nutcracker," you could be forgiven for forgetting that you're at the ballet. Excited children bound about the stage. Rats and tin soldiers engage in a toyland turf ...

Viktor Yeliohin of the Viktor Yeliohin International Ballet Academy admits that he is a bit sweet on the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Nutcracker Prince, Clara and assorted dewdrops, snowflakes and flowers.

NEW YORKNEW YORK — For so many American kids, it’s their first – and sometimes only – exposure to ballet: A holiday performance of “The Nutcracker,” that classic tale of a little girl’s dreamlike ...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. On Michigan Road, anyway. Young ballet dancers gathered on a September night in a small yellow house. The historic home, once part of the Underground ...