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The ballet's first complete United States performance was on 24 December 1944, by the San Francisco Ballet, staged by its artistic director Willam Christensen. [3] The New York City Ballet gave its first annual performance of George Balanchine's staging of The Nutcracker in 1954. [3] The tradition of performing the complete ballet at Christmas eventually spread to the rest of the United States ...
The Nutcracker (Balanchine) Choreographer George Balanchine 's production of Peptipa and Tchaikovsky 's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker is a broadly popular version of the ballet often performed in the United States. Conceived for the New York City Ballet, its premiere took place on February 2, 1954, at City Center, New York, with costumes by Karinska, sets by Horace Armistead and lighting and ...
The Nutcracker ( Russian: Щелкунчик [a], romanized : Shchelkunchik, pronounced [ɕːɪɫˈkunʲt͡ɕɪk] ⓘ ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; Russian: балет-феерия, romanized: balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination. The plot is an adaptation of E ...
At dance companies around the world, ‘Nutcracker’ season is in full swing. Clémence Michallon speaks to dancers and critics about the show that has become a staple across countries and ...
The Nutcracker, also known as George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, is a 1993 American Christmas ballet film based on Peter Martins 's stage production and directed by Emile Ardolino. It stars Darci Kistler, Damian Woetzel, Kyra Nichols, Bart Robinson Cook, Macaulay Culkin, Jessica Lynn Cohen, Wendy Whelan, Margaret Tracey, Gen Horiuchi, Tom Gold, and the New York City Ballet .
The company was the first in the U.S. to make the ballet an annual tradition, and for ten years, the only company in the United States performing the complete ballet, until George Balanchine 's production opened in New York in 1954. (Annual productions of the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker began in 1949.)
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Paper Mill was officially designated as the "State Theater of New Jersey". [2] From 1971 to 2008, Paper Mill held the New Jersey Ballet as its resident ballet company, with the annual production of Nutcracker until the premiere 25th Anniversary tour of Les Misérables took up the ballet's performance slot. [3]