“The Nutcracker” was dreamed up after the ... The “Arabian” music is a Georgian lullaby. The bravura “Russian” dance — with its deep squats and high leaps — is based on a Ukrainian ...

On the whole, however, the elements of Russian style are still there. Mark Carlson laughs when asked about the relation of the “Nutcracker” staged by his International Ballet School to the ...

It takes some doing in this country to be more than about 25 miles from a production of “The Nutcracker” during the Christmas season. The ballet has become as American as Friday Night Lights ...

Or, for that matter, Russia, where it originated in 1892. There are many delights in Moscow Ballet’s “Great Russian Nutcracker,” which the touring company of dancers from assorted Russian ...

Tonight, Lindsey Kolb will step onstage with an international ballet company when the Moscow Ballet opens its two-night performance of "The Great Russian Nutcracker." For Kolb, 15, it could be the ...

It wasn’t until 1954 its staging by George Balanchine with the New York City Ballet, however, that “The Nutcracker” became a holiday staple. Balanchine, the Russian-born founder of the New ...

If you answer yes, chances are you saw The Nutcracker—a production so iconic it is often an audience member’s first (and sometimes only) exposure to ballet. The classic, with music by Russian ...

The Moscow Ballet will tour 115 cities across the United States and Canada this holiday season to perform the Great Russian Nutcracker, a production featuring the 'onion dome' Moscow skyline ...

Talmi, which has been sending its unique take on "The Nutcracker" out to some 140 cities in North America each winter since 1992, used to call its production “Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian ...

Tkachenko says Ukraine's allies can fight back by rejecting Russian artists ... for the esteemed New York City Ballet come from its five-week run of The Nutcracker, Reuters reported last ...

In the ballet "The Nutcracker" the lead, Clara is thrust in a magical far-off land, where she meets new people and goes on wonderous adventures. While there, she battles mice, pirouettes through ...