E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” tells the tale of our young heroine, who only sees the nutcracker come to life while she sleeps and sees him battle a seven-headed mouse ...

The ballet's child-centered tale is drawn from “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” the 1816 novella by E.T.A. Hoffmann, a much more grotesque story. Like his contemporaries the brothers Grimm ...

At the risk of losing the plot, the rest of this “Nutcracker” is like many others. Marie falls asleep and dreams of a battle between life-sized toy soldiers and giant mice.

Drosselmeyer isn’t a ballet dancer, but a pop-and-lock hip-hop dancer. In the classic battle scene, young dancers marching with prop rifles have been replaced by a fight between ballet and hip-hop ...

The reimagined battle scene quickly became a source of laughter for the audience while simultaneously awing them with increasingly larger props that must be seen in person. Once Marie, played by IU ...

2. The battle with the Mouse King. In the second dance session Clara falls asleep under the Christmas tree, only to wake up and find herself in a new, magical world.

Boston Ballet artistic director Mikko Nissinen’s “Nutcracker” is, as always, packed with thoughtful touches. And children have returned to the cast this year.

Though Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “ The Nutcracker” has been a holiday staple for most families for generations, Jacobs School of Music brings fans an updated version of this classic tale.

Go behind the scenes of Orlando Ballet’s multimillion-dollar ‘Nutcracker’ in holiday TV special Documentary that traces creation of troupe’s multimillion-dollar production airs on Thanksgiving ...

On Nov. 24, Boston Ballet returned with their Christmas staple, Mikko Nissinen’s “The Nutcracker.” “The Nutcracker” features accomplished dancers from the company as well as students ...

"The Nutcracker" is a classic ballet performed every year around Christmas. But this year, Columbia Dance in Vancouver, Washington, will reinterpret the ballet with a Pacific Northwest flair.