This year marks 50 years since the Cincinnati Ballet first staged a production of the 19th-century classic story "The Nutcracker" with ... known as the "Arabian Dance"). Start the day smarter.

On a recent Saturday morning, in an over-100-year-old former church near Stillwater, a ballet student glided across the hardwood floor before leaping upwards. “Use your arms to help you in the ...

The story of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King was transformed ... the whirling Russian Dance, based on a Ukrainian folk dance, and the elegant Waltz of the Flowers. The Russian Dance - the ...

Experience the wonder of the holidays with James Kudelka’s The Nutcracker, a spectacular family production. The adventure begins at a Christmas Eve party in a 19th-century barn and introduces ...

If you're wrapping presents: Listen to the energetic Russian Dance or Trepak - a Cossack ... from the mid-20th Century The Nutcracker became a standard of ballet companies across the globe ...