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Concerts, plays, and ballets to make your spirits bright.

Holiday festivities have returned, a year after the COVID-19 pandemic put them on ice.

Scottish Ballet will remove elements of caricature from Arabian and Chinese sequences in The Nutcracker as part of an overhaul of a production first staged 1972.

The Norman Ballet Company is back after a COVID-related hiatus last holiday season for their 19th Annual Oklahoma Nutcracker.

From winning many scholarships and competing with older peers to being identified as the first-ever Gifted and Talented Student in dance in School District 51, Bookcliff Middle School sixth-grader Kaitlynn

Posted 6 hours ago This is the latest entry in a series of articles telling the personal stories of Iowa State University faculty and scientists whose work is changing the world for the better. Click here to read about previous Change Agents. AMES, Iowa – Jessica Ward has never been one to do things a certain prescribed way just because that’s how things have always been done. Ward is always on the lookout for improvements, both big and small, that might make things run more efficiently. ...

Date Time Change Agent: Jessica Ward This is the latest entry in a series of articles telling the personal stories of Iowa State University faculty and scientists whose work is changing the world for the better. Click here to read about previous Change Agents. AMES, Iowa – Jessica Ward has never been one to do things a certain prescribed way just because that’s how things have always been done. Ward is always on the lookout for improvements, both big and small, that might make things run mo...

RRCA to host "Coppelia" this weekend Two casts of about 40 masked dancers will split this weekend’s four shows. “Coppelia” is the lighthearted 1870 tale of engaged couple Swanhilda and Franz. Their relationship takes a turn when Franz falls in love with Coppelia, a lifelike mechanical doll. Swanhilda and her friends investigate Coppelia by breaking into the workshop of toymaker Dr. Coppelius, Coppelia’s creator. To teach Franz a lesson, Swanhilda dresses as a doll and pretends to come t...

A Pueblo holiday tradition continues with ‘Nutcracker, The Ballet’ Waltz of the Flowers - Meena Ropp as "Dewdrop" and the corps de ballet, courtesy of Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) -- The Nutcracker Ballet, put on by the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, is a holiday tradition in Pueblo, and even with the COVID-19 pandemic, the show must go on. Because of the pandemic, there were no live performances this year, but rather than cancel the ballet al...

The Watchmakers Song: A Drive-In Nutcracker Experience. This year, the audience will follow the Watchmaker and his loved ones through an entirely new narrative, as conceived by Ventana Ballets new co-artistic director, Jerreme Rodriguez, in an effort to make the most of this nontraditional venue. "The new adaptation honors the elements of The Watchmaker’s Song that set it apart from traditional stagings of The Nutcracker Ballet," they tell us, and its enlivened by Duke Ellington...