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With lockdown restrictions, a gloom has descended on the holiday season with all in person concerts and performances canceled. But despite a make or break year for most arts groups, many Bay Area classical music and dance stalwarts have ingeniously risen to the occasion and are offering holiday entertainment virtually that also function as fundraisers. All the events listed below are available for streaming through the end of this month. Some charge admission prices while others are free and/or request a donation. During this critical period, these cultural institutions need audience backing...

Nothing says holiday tradition around town like making your way down to the Wortham Theater Center to see The Nutcracker each year. Well, it’s anything but a normal year, but despite living in a post-COVID world, the Houston Ballet and Artistic Director Stanton Welch have attempted to make lemonade within the lemon-tations of the year in the form of Nutcracker Sweets. The hour-long mixed repertory makes the necessary move to cyberspace, with a program featuring two new works from Welch, a new work spotlighting Houston Ballet II and Students of Houston Ballet Academy, and an abbreviated v...

Nutcracker Sweets The virtual production combines footage from old company performances of the Tchaikovsky holiday ballet with new dances set to favorite seasonal songs and carols. By Adrianne Reece 12/15/2020 at 6:00am Houston Ballet Soloist Jacquelyn Long. The pandemic's looming presence has become the ultimate antagonist this holiday season, taking the Mouse King's throne as it brought about the cancellation of the Houston Ballet’s annual production of The Nutcracker—a wintertime staple of merriment and unforgettable memories that has graced the Bayou City stage for almost 50...

With lockdown restrictions, a gloom has descended on the holiday season with all in person concerts and performances canceled. But despite a make or break year for most arts groups, many Bay Area classical music and dance stalwarts have ingeniously risen to the occasion and are offering holiday entertainment virtually that also function as fundraisers. All the events listed below are available for streaming through the end of this month. Some charge admission prices while others are free and/or request a donation. During this critical period, these cultural institutions need audience backing...

Instead of months of rehearsal room practice, her communications with Artistic Director Stanton Welch came via a Zoom meeting to discuss his vision of the role she would dance. Instead of dancing with other company members, she and all other dancers were filmed one at a time in the ballet's dance lab, with a camera operator, lighting professional and Welch, all in masks. Editing magic was applied afterward to pull each dance sequence together in what will be virtual instead of a performance before a live audience. The Nutcracker became instead Nutcracker Sweets: an hour-long mixed rep pro...