How does a ballerina stay fit during the grueling ‘Nutcracker’ season? A day in the life of a Sugarplum Fairy. For many, seeing the Tchaikovsky classic is an annual holiday tradition.

Jennifer Lauren, a principal ballerina with Miami City Ballet, is retiring from the company after 27 seasons. She will be performing the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in the company's production of ...

Can beauty be born from something sad? The new fairy-tale ballet Raffaella, premiering June 29-30 at the Morris Performing Arts Center in South Bend, Indiana, assures it can.

This year, she plays the iconic Sugar Plum Fairy and the pixie-like Dewdrop, the leader of the waltzing flowers, at NYCB, and stars in “The Hip Hop Nutcracker,” a contemporary twist of the ...

New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck takes us through her entire routine as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker. As she gets ready for the iconic third movement in the pas de deux ...

A new ballet premiering this summer honors Catholic dancer Rafaella Stroik, a beautiful ballerina who tragically died in 2018. Inspired by her life and her vision to bring beauty to the world ...

Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s creation is now at the Lyric Opera House, with a few scary moments amid the spectacle.

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But during the ballet’s run, Morgan also took a turn as Carabosse, the cranky fairy who curses Princess Aurora over a missing party invite. (Social anxiety was the real enemy all along ...

The ballet's child-centered tale is drawn from “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” the 1816 novella by E.T.A. Hoffmann, a much more grotesque story. Like his contemporaries the brothers Grimm ...