Wednesday, November 17

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Nevada Dance Company presents its Nutcracker.

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Nevada Dance Company, formally known as Pinkerton Ballet, not only brings professional dancers to the stage but has also gained new artistic directors Erica & Oliver Adams.
 

 

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Alabama River Region Ballet, likewise.

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It features dancers from the Youth Ballet Company, and students from the school. There's a cast of 85 dancers, ranging from 6 to 18. Among them is Angeles Gonzalez-Ansaldi, who outside of ballet is Montgomery County’s Distinguished Young Woman 2022. The dancers have been preparing for the production since August. 

 

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Ballet West's Nutcracker is a hot ticket.

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But some of the greatest magic comes from the Ballet West Orchestra, Goldberg said.

"You hear the strings, you hear the brass and the vibrations of that music gets into the theater — and then comes over to you and actually enters your body. You feel it. While you see this world-class ballet company performing this timeless classic. It's this recipe for such a special magical experience," he said.

 

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A review of the McNicol Ballet Collective by Jann Parry for DanceTabs.

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Seventeen months after Andrew McNicol announced the launch of his company, with its debut scheduled for April 2020, his programme of four new works has finally reached the stage, first in London and then in Hull, his home town. His plan has been to recruit independent dancers (mostly former members of ballet companies) to collaborate with him on contemporary ballet creations while pursuing their own careers. Recently appointed at 29 as Artistic Associate of English National Ballet School, he has choreographed internationally for film and stage.

 

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San Francisco Ballet announces plans for Helgi Tomasson's last opening night gala.

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The one-night-only program at the War Memorial Opera House will include new work by choreographers Alexei Ratmansky, Yuri Possokhov and Myles Thatcher, all of whom have had long and productive working relationships with the company. It will also feature the stage debut of a pas de deux from Danielle Rowe’s “Wooden Dimes,” which was among the ballet films created during the pandemic, and the White Swan pas de deux from Helgi Tomasson’s “Swan Lake” with principal dancer Yuan Yuan Tan.

 

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Backstage with KC Ballet's costume shop.

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While canceling last year's performance was tough, Carroll said for her team there's a silver lining. “Because we had a year off with the pandemic there was a lot of stuff we were able to get done,” she said. “So, it’s not quite as panicked right now.” Each costume and performer will be ready to dazzle audiences once again when the curtain opens this December.