Here’s when and where to catch Bay Area ‘Nutcrackers,’ Smuin Ballet and other holiday dance performances
In the brief pause before the advent of what seems certain to be a tumultuous political era, dance offers a respite from anxiety, dread and depression.
The milestone hasn’t been widely noted, but 2024 is the 80th anniversary of the U.S. premiere of “The Nutcracker,” the ballet that has become a cultural touchstone and economic lifeline for hundreds of dance companies across the country. But what now seems like a fixed piece of the holiday landscape was hardly inevitable. The
Now there are nearly a dozen versions of “The Nutcracker” set to Tchaikovsky’s enchanting suite playing in the Bay Area alone, though the heroic piece of cutlery isn’t the only holiday dance star appearing on Bay Area stages.Two decades after the premiere of Helgi Tomasson’s “Nutcracker,” the lavish production has become a Bay Area institution. Designed as a showcase for the company’s prodigious dancers, the ballet is set in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights in 1915.
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