One Snow Queen, two Icicles, 18 Snow Maidens, six Unicorns, 20 young singers and 65 musicians along with 10 lbs of paper snow make the snow scene one of the most spectacular moments in The Nutcracker ...

Madeline Woo is a principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet — where the first ever full-length production of The Nutcracker was performed in the United States Woo has danced in her fair share of ...

MANKATO — Quinn Rassbach and Caleb Hartwig are two of a large number of seniors graduating this year and making their last appearance in the Mankato Ballet Company’s annual “The Nutcracker” shows.

“The Nutcracker” is a holiday tradition for dancers from preschool age and up. Audiences often include members who are there as family and not necessarily as fans of ballet. If that’s you, here are ...

Each year when the holidays roll around, hundreds of ballet companies across the country dust off their candy canes and carefully unpack their nutcrackers from storage in preparation to meet the ...