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The National Ballet of Washington, D.C. was an American national ballet company founded in 1962 by Jean Riddell, [1] [2] granddaughter of the founder of PET Evaporated Milk and artistic director Frederic Franklin, [3] with financial support from the Ford Foundation. [4] Its studios were located at 2801 Connecticut Avenue, NW, in Washington, D.C ...
For 2019, the contestants were The Australian Ballet 's production of Peter Wright's Nutcracker, the Royal Opera House's 2016 Nutcracker, the Mariinsky's 2012 Nutcracker, the Czech National Ballet's 2017 The Nutcracker and the Cuddly Mouse and the Opernhaus Zurich's 2018 The Nutcracker .
The Washington Ballet (TWB) is an ensemble of professional ballet dancers based in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1976 by Mary Day and has been directed by Julie Kent since 2016. [1] [2]
The Nutcracker ( Russian: Щелкунчик [a], romanized :Shchelkunchik, pronounced [ɕːɪɫˈkunʲt͡ɕɪk] ⓘ ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; Russian: балет-феерия, romanized:balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a ...
Charlotte Nebres (born 2008 or 2009) [1] is an American pre-professional ballet dancer. In 2019, at eleven years old, she become the first Black ballerina to dance the role of Marie in New York City Ballet 's production of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker. [2] Later that year, she wrote Charlotte and The Nutcracker, a children's book about ...
Dame Margot Fonteyn, DBE (18 May 1919 – 21 February 1991), stage name of Margaret Evelyn de Arias, was an English ballerina. She spent her entire career as a dancer with the Royal Ballet, eventually being appointed Prima Ballerina Assoluta of the company by Queen Elizabeth. She joined the Vic-Wells Ballet School at the age of 14 and from 1935 ...
Tickets to see “The Nutcracker,” a local holiday classic, will be given out first-come, first-served. Carolina Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker’ can be seen free for one show only. How to go
The Warner Theatre was originally developed by Aaron and Julian Brylawski in 1922. Originally named the Earle Theatre, it was built in 1924 as a movie palace presenting live vaudeville and first run silent movies. It was designed by theatre architect C. Howard Crane of Detroit and Kenneth Franzheim. The Earle Theatre opened December 27, 1924.