After years of aesthetic development and pandemic patience, Columbia Dance’s uniquely reimagined “Nutcracker” is ready for its holiday debut. Forget about gingerbread soldiers battling mice and that ...

In 1892, composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographer Marius Petipa debuted “The Nutcracker,” a two-act ballet about a young girl named Clara who receives a nutcracker for Christmas. When the ...

In Chicago this season, you can find a jazzy Duke Ellington version, a global “Nutcracker” with hip-hop mice and the 50th anniversary of the holiday story on ice, as well as the Joffrey Ballet’s ...

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