17 NOVEMBER 2015
Showing posts with tag: Nutcracker
24 OCTOBER 2015
So you think you know how The Nutcracker came to America
Many ballet-lovers subscribe to the myth that George Balanchine’s 1954 reinvention of the Russian classic for New York City Ballet “sparked an American holiday tradition” – in the words of Laura Jacobs, who penned a fascinating exploration of Balanchine’s Nutcracker for Vanity Fair, even as she played fast and …
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15 FEBRUARY 2015
The jaded sing Hallelujah for Oakland Ballet’s Nutcracker
With only three performances in two days, Oakland Ballet’s Nutcracker barely had time to get over jet lag, but the crowds that jammed the Art Deco jewel box of the Paramount Theatre the weekend before Christmas clearly hoped it would hang out for longer next year.
“I am experiencing …
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11 NOVEMBER 2014
Naughty and Nice: Holiday Dance Around the Bay
Leigh Donlan raises her glass of champagne (never mind that it’s only 10 in the morning):
They’re back!
The holidays, that is. And though it’s eighty degrees here in Northern California and I’m still wearing flip-flops, there are snowflakes, snow queens and other frosty characters waiting in the …
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16 DECEMBER 2013
Oakland Ballet’s Nutcracker pulls a vibrant community together
Ballet to the People gatecrashed a lecture-demonstration by dancers from the Oakland Ballet Company at Burckhalter Elementary School on Thursday morning, surrounded by an enthusiastic, engaging and well-mannered crowd of third graders. As Sharon Kung, Megan Terry, Greg DeSantis, and Vincent Chavez gave a capsule history of ballet, and …
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