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Get a first look at footage of Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, now playing at Sadler's Wells. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets here!

The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts is launching a new collaboration with Joffrey Ballet School of New York City as part of their new One Year Specialized Certificate Program in Musical Theatre. Learn more!

In December 2022, I had the honour of seeing Veronica Paeper and Cape Town City Ballet’s THE NUTCRACKER. The same talented production team returns this season to stage this timeless ballet again. The result is just as beautiful as when I watched it two years ago. While this year’s production takes place in the Theatre rather than the larger Opera House, the production does not lose any of the magic from the 2022 production.

Experience a dynamic weekend celebrating the forefront of contemporary dance as the Breaking Ground Contemporary Dance Festival returns to the Tempe Center for the Arts. Learn more and see how to attend.

One of the most perfect evenings I've ever spent in a theater.

These days the Nutcracker can take many forms, from funny to sultry, and everything in between. That is the case with The Hard Nut presented by BAM and Mark Morris Dance Group in Brooklyn. Based on the book by E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, this dance performance is a fun and wacky time for all, including family and children even with those sexual innuendos thrown in there for the adults.

Heather Robles, who has been an integral part of The Bessie Awards for the past 15 years and has served as its Executive Director for the last four, is stepping down from her role. Learn more about Robles and the organization.

The Auditorium will present the return of New York-based Complexions Contemporary Ballet in February. Learn more about the upcoming performance and see how to purchase tickets.

There is no better time to be had than what The Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre offers audiences at its five-week residency at the New York City Center. The show, which consists of a rotating roster of new, returning and classic works, should be mandatory holiday viewing. It is White Christmas or The Rockettes, but for audiences who want less razzle dazzle and more joy, depth and authenticity. 

Nunnbetter Dance Theatre began offering dance classes in Bergenfield, NJ in 1998. Since then NDT has also produced a full scale production of The Nutcracker. Purchase tickets to this year's production!

Thru an intricately woven saga spanning many eras of time, the Star of HEXEN, An Ancestial Witch Play, Dreya Weber, an actress, singer, dancer, writer, lyricist, director and aerial artist, takes us on a magical, mystical series of events beginning many centuries ago with three of her ancestors she came to know as Hildegard (1580-1658), Hypatta (370-415 AD) and Cherry Rose Susanna (1889-1953). Her knowledge of these three was obtained through her mother’s research into their family’s mattrilinial lineage. As her strength, energy, skill, and lightness of being embody each character from her distant past, we come to know their ties to Dreya, through the many creative, explorative scenarios presented.

Musiqa, NobleMotion Dance and the University of Houston IUCRC Brain Center have been awarded Chamber Music America's 2025 Interdisciplinary Collaboration of the Year for “Meeting of Minds”, a joint production with music by Anthony Brandt, choreography by Andy Noble and Dionne Sparkman Noble, visual design by Badie Khaleghian, and brain-computer interfacing (BCI) under the direction of Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal.  

Carnegie Hall+—Carnegie Hall's video streaming channel—invites music lovers to celebrate the holiday season with a curated selection of operas, ballets, concerts, and films, perfect for viewing at this festive time of year.

Ten dancers fired by the Dallas Black Dance Theatre (DBDT) in August will receive over $500,000 in compensation and a personal apology from the company's leadership, according to the union representing the dancers, the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA).

Tickets remain for Nashville Ballet's beloved holiday classic, Paul Vasterling’s Nashville’s Nutcracker, now underway at Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Jackson Hall. See photos!

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater leaps into its third week of performances celebrating Legacy in Motion and the life of Artistic Director Emerita Judith Jamison with a world premiere from Interim Artistic Director Matthew Rushing, new production by Elisa Monte, two special programs, and more chances to see returning favorites including Alvin Ailey's timeless masterpiece Revelations.

On Monday, December 16, 2024, dancers from Harlem School of the Arts performed on stage at Radio City as the opening act for the Christmas Spectacular, as part of the show’s Community Partner Performances program. See video of their performance!

Travel down the rabbit hole for an integrated dance experience with MOMIX: Alice, inspired by Lewis Carroll's classic tale, Alice in Wonderland. Directed by Moses Pendleton, audiences are transported into Wonderland through light, shadow, props, and whimsical dance and movement.

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company has announced their Lunar New Year Gala of Music and Dance, set for next month. Learn more about the upcoming event and how to get tickets here!

It has been some time coming. For nearly 15 years English National Ballet enthusiastically performed Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker, a traditional but rather staid production with a fuzzy narrative and lacking opportunity for the company to shine.

Little Women Ballet is the world premiere of a charming new ballet at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Mid-Wilshire.  This is a lavish, romantic, nostalgic, family-friendly night of dance that is not to be missed.

The one constant in life is change. Humankind is destined, and doomed, to cycle through periods of denial, discomfort, exploration, adaptation, and integration to return to a similar starting point after a period of transformation. Kyle Abraham’s latest work, Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful, explores not just this infinite loop, but how we thrive within the confines of life’s ouroboros. 

Linda Shelton, Executive Director of The Joyce Theater Foundation, has announced the calendar of performances from renowned U.S. and international dance companies slated for The Joyce Theater's Spring/Summer ‘25 Season.

Ballet Hispánico's Pa'lante Junior Ensemble, from the pre-professional Pa'lante training program, will be joining in the Catskill Mountain Foundation's Orpheum Dance Program in the ninth annual performance of The Nutcracker. Learn more!

There’s the Nutcracker and then there is the Nutcracker Rouge. While the traditional ballet is more formal and family-friendly, Nutcracker Rouge is anything but, making for an alluring adult-only spectacle of incredible talent mixed with naughty decadence and a bit of raunchy humor, too. Nutcracker Rouge is not only a ballet but part circus and burlesque, reconstructing everything that we once thought of the original Christmas performance and creating something new and sparkly.