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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 ...
Official website – School of American Ballet; New York City Ballet collected news and commentary at The New York Times; New York City Ballet records, 1934–1976 – Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; New York City Ballet scores, 1930–1965 – Music Division, New York Public Library for the ...
First performed by the San Francisco Ballet in 1944, The Nutcracker became a smash hit when it was reworked by George Balanchine for the New York City Ballet in 1954. And the rest, they say, is ...
For 2015, the contestants were the 1993 film version of the New York City Ballet's Nutcracker, the Dutch National Ballet's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, Das Wiener Staatsballett's 2014 Nutcracker and the Bonn Ballet's Nutcracker. The winner, shown on December 21, was The Dutch National Ballet’s The Nutcracker And The Mouse King.
Company City State Years active Web site Ajkun Ballet Theatre: New York: New York: 2000–present: www.ajkunbt.org: Alabama Ballet: Birmingham: Alabama: 1981–present
Nicholas Magallanes (November 27, 1922 – May 2, 1977) was a Mexican-born American principal dancer and charter member of the New York City Ballet. [1] Along with Francisco Moncion, Maria Tallchief, and Tanaquil Le Clercq, Magallanes was among the core group of dancers with which George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein formed Ballet Society, the immediate predecessor of the New York City Ballet.
Charlotte Nebres (born 2008 or 2009) [1] is an American pre-professional ballet dancer. In 2019, at eleven years old, she become the first Black ballerina to dance the role of Marie in New York City Ballet's production of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker. [2]
[1] 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.)