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In “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker,” performed by City Ballet and young students from its School of American Ballet, ballet comes full circle.

After one holiday season lost to the pandemic and another curtailed by Omicron, seasonal staples including “The Nutcracker,” “A Christmas Carol” and “Messiah” are back in force.

After not being able to perform the nutcracker for two years, The Premiere Dance Company is back with the production at the Civic Center for their 30th anniversary this weekend.

Some of the performers in this year's Nutcracker at the Straz, Dec. 16-18, had parents who performed in the show when they were young.

Little girls dressed up as mice leaned against the edge of the stage and looked up at the older dancers during their Tuesday dress rehearsal for “The Nutcracker.”

For a mother and daughter, the sweetest moment came when the production broke a barrier with the first Black dancer to play Marie, the brave young heroine.

Holiday classic more relevant with representation

Recent News: The Nutcracker is among the works that Oleksandr Tkachenko, Ukraines minister of culture, says should be boycotted. "Were not talking about cancelling Tchaikovsky," he wrote in The Guardian, "but rather about pausing performances of his works until Russia ceases its bloody invasion." Ballet companies in the U.S. and UK are largely continuing their runs of the ballet.

This year Lawton Ballet Theatre will present its production of The Nutcracker December 16, 17 and 18 at the McMahon Memorial Auditorium in Lawton. This will be Lawton Ballet Theatre's tenth year presenting The Nutcracker!

"After 25 years you would think weve seen it all, but we had our hearts broken this summer more than ever," Stray Rescue of St. Louis told Newsweek.