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Bay Pointe Ballet's repertory includes Bruce Steivel's Nutcracker, Peter Pan, Coppelia, Dracula, Cycle, In The Mood, Raymonda pas de dix, and selections from A Midsummer Night's Dream among other classical repertory. The season also includes a New Works program of new ballets created by emerging and established Bay Area choreographers.
[1] The company was the first in the U.S. to make the ballet an annual tradition, and for ten years, the only company in the United States performing the complete ballet, until George Balanchine's production opened in New York in 1954. (Annual productions of the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker began in 1949.)
Choreography: Alexander Gorsky (after Petipa) Company: Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow Premiere: 1919 Russian choreographer Alexander Gorsky, who staged a production of The Nutcracker in Moscow in 1919, is credited with the idea of combining Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy's roles (i.e. giving the Fairy's dances to Clara), eliminating the Sugar Plum Fairy's Cavalier, giving the Cavalier's dances to the ...
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California Riverside Ballet is a ballet company formerly headquartered in Riverside, California, United States, in Riverside's historic Aurea Vista Hotel, city landmark number 84. [ citation needed ] The company was founded in 1969, and operates as a non-profit organization, with support from the city of Riverside, the County of Riverside , the ...
Choreographer George Balanchine's production of Petipa and Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker is a broadly popular version of the ballet often performed in the United States. Conceived for the New York City Ballet , its premiere took place on February 2, 1954, at City Center , New York, with costumes by Karinska , sets by Horace Armistead ...