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Oakland Balley Company's headquarters on Broadway, Oakland. The Oakland Ballet Company is a non-profit ballet company based in Oakland, California.OBC was founded in 1965 by Ronn Guidi, an Oakland native, and gained recognition through its historical reconstructions of ballets from the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev; the mounting of classic works of Americana; and the creation of innovative ...
Val Caniparoli is an American ballet dancer and international choreographer. [1] His work includes more than 100 productions for ballet, opera, and theater for over 50 companies, [2] and his career as a choreographer progressed globally even as he continued his professional dance career with the San Francisco Ballet.
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 child's imagination featuring a Nutcracker doll.
The Paramount Theatre is a 3,040-seat Art Deco concert hall located at 2025 Broadway in Downtown Oakland. When it was built in 1931, it was the largest multi-purpose theater on the West Coast, seating 3,476. [4] [5] Today, the Paramount is the home of the Oakland East Bay Symphony and the Oakland Ballet.
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 ...
The ballet's artistic staff and artists will create new, expressive choreography that's suited to the venue's intimate feel. 'The Nutcracker' Dec. 19-22 at the Murat Theatre at Old National Centre ...
Orlando Ballet is celebrating Christmas in July as tickets to the company’s all-new production of “The Nutcracker” go on sale. After 30 years, Orlando Ballet is building a whole new ...
Company City State Years active Web site Ajkun Ballet Theatre: New York: New York: 2000–present: www.ajkunbt.org: Alabama Ballet: Birmingham: Alabama: 1981–present