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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 featuring a Nutcracker doll.
Choreographer George Balanchine's production of Petipa 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 ...
Feminist ballerina Ashley Bouder has been outspoken about body shaming in the ballet world. Here's how she's leading by example as her daughter joins her on stage this holiday "Nutcracker" season.
She danced the rôle of the Sugarplum Fairy in City Ballet's 1993 film version of The Nutcracker. She eventually wrote her own autobiography " Ballerina: My Story " as a children's book. Kistler joined the SAB's permanent faculty in 1994.
Choreography: Alexander Gorsky (after Petipa) Company: Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow Premiere: 1919 Russian choreographer Alexander Gorsky, who staged a production of The Nutcracker in Moscow in 1919, is credited with the idea of combining Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy's roles (i.e. giving the Fairy's dances to Clara), eliminating the Sugar Plum Fairy's Cavalier, giving the Cavalier's dances to the ...
Morgan danced with New York City Ballet for six years, from 2006 to 2012. She was a soloist from 2009 until her departure from the company. While with New York City Ballet, Morgan performed many featured roles. She performed as Marzipan, Dewdrop and Sugar Plum Fairy in George Balanchine's The Nutcracker.
In 2011, she danced the role of Sugar Plum Fairy in a telecast of The Nutcracker. Fairchild made her Broadway stage debut playing the role of Ivy Smith in the 2014 revival of On the Town, [4] which opened on October 16, 2014, at the Lyric Theatre. She received the 2015 Theatre World Award for her performance.
In 1886 the ballerina Antonietta Dell'Era, notable for creating the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, had performed excerpts from Sylvia at the Arcadia Theatre of St. Petersburg, and in 1892, Carlotta Brianza, who created the role of Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, performed the full-length work at the Fantasia Theatre in ...