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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – South Carolina Ballet is gearing up for a reimagined version of the “Nutcracker” this holiday season. You can catch performances at the Charleston Music Hall on ...
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 ...