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The Nutcracker Suite is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded for Columbia Records in 1960 featuring jazz interpretations of the 1892 ballet "The Nutcracker" by Tchaikovsky, arranged by Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. [1]
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.
The Hard Nut is a ballet set to Tchaikovsky's 1892 The Nutcracker and choreographed by Mark Morris. It took its inspiration from the comic artist Charles Burns, whose art is personal and deeply instilled with archetypal concepts of guilt, childhood, adolescent sexuality, and poignant, nostalgic portrayals of post-war America. Morris enlisted a ...
River Raisin Ballet Company will stage "Nutcracker Ballet" this weekend at the River Raisin Centre for the Arts.
Modern Dance: Spanish National Dance Company (Carmina Burana - Dionaea - The Nutcracker - Swan Lake) Ballet: Ballet Bolshoi; Musical Theater: Fiddler on the Roof; Family Show: Disney on Ice; Jazz and Blues: Jazz Festival 2005 (Diana Krall, Mike Stern, Chucho Valdes, Wayne Shorter, Maria Rita, Yellowjackets) Research and Recovery: La Guelaguetza
Following open-call auditions in the spring, which saw more than 800 women kick their way into Midtown to show their best tap, jazz and ballet moves, 17 exceptional ladies will join the ...
Matthew Bourne is best known for his unique re-imaginings of traditional ballet, such as his 1995 production of Swan Lake, where he replaced the traditionally female corps-de-ballet with a male ensemble. [49] Swan Lake (Bourne) went on to be the longest-running ballet in London's West End and New York City's Broadway. [50]
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 ...