Leigh Donlan muses on the 2013 Nutcracker season:
Ah, it’s that time of year again, when children’s eyes glisten with visions of Sugar Plum fairies and sticky sweets. As a former dancer and, later, Children’s Ballet Mistress on many a Nutcracker production, this season often brings feelings of …
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It’s been an exhausting Fall season of bi-coastal dance, full of thought-provoking ballet – from the dazzling, messy new Tempest at American Ballet Theatre, to Crystal Pite’s Emergence at Pacific Northwest Ballet, Nacho Duato’s bewitching Por Vos Muero at Oregon Ballet Theatre, dark fairy tales at West Wave, …
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Another Christmas brings us “one more Nutcracker closer to death,” grumbled English dance critic Richard Buckle. Although it is a German story infused with Russian Christmas traditions, nowhere is The Nutcracker more eagerly recreated than in America. Jennifer Dunning writes that The Nutcracker “fits well into the category of made-to-order …
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