About half of the revenue for American ballet companies each year comes from the cozy seasonal favorite "The Nutcracker." Since COVID, they have become even more dependent on those sugarplum fairies.

When the Joffrey Ballet's "The Nutcracker" opens at the Kennedy Center on Thursday, 8-year-old Mary Cassell and 17 other local ballet students will become children attending an elaborate Victorian-era ...

Why the waltz? What gives with this senescent New Year's tradition of still waltzing 200 years since the birth of the dance's greatest maker, Johann Strauss II? One simple answer is that this ...

Let’s be honest—the holidays fucking suck. What even is the point? Being around family sucks. But, at least, August Burns Red has blessed us with a little holiday treat, by way of their quite hefty ...

Once a year the Vienna State Opera hosts a lavish ball. When you enter the magnificent auditorium, you feel as though you have stepped back in time: champagne flows as hundreds of women in gowns and ...