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Raised in Florence, South Carolina, [3] Murphy was a member of Columbia City Ballet before attending high school at University of North Carolina School of the Arts.There, under the tutelage of Melissa Hayden, she danced principal roles in several of the school's productions, including The Nutcracker [4] and George Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco, Western Symphony, Tarantella and Theme and ...
South Carolina Ballet, formerly The Columbia City Ballet, was founded in 1961 by Ann Brodie, [2] a former dancer with the Radio City Music Hall Ballet. [3] The company was rebranded as South Carolina Ballet in 2023 to reflect its statewide focus.
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.
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 ...
She left the New York City Ballet to join the American Ballet Theatre in 1974 as a principal dancer. [citation needed] Kirkland appeared in the dance role of Clara Stahlbaum in Mikhail Baryshnikov's 1977 televised production of The Nutcracker, which Baryshnikov also acted in as the titular Nutcracker/Prince. She left the American Ballet Theatre ...
Any schools interested in bringing a performance of “The Nutcracker” to their campus or attending a school performance of the show at the RiverCenter are asked to contact the Columbus Ballet ...
It is also used for other functions such as The State of the State Address, The South Carolina Body Building Championships, The South Carolina Science Fair, Freshman Orientation, The Conductor's Institute, The Columbia Classical Ballet, and the dance concerts for the Columbia City Ballet, Southern Strutt's year-end concert and the university's ...
Orlando Ballet is celebrating Christmas in July as tickets to the company’s all-new production of “The Nutcracker” go on sale. After 30 years, Orlando Ballet is building a whole new ...