By Ellen Dunkel
For The InquirerPennsylvania Ballet has been performing The Nutcracker in various incarnations for 40 years.
I’ve seen more versions of this seasonal classic than I can count – professional companies, student productions, quirky remakes. Live, on TV, on video, animated and in many, many rehearsal studios.
Yet after all this time, in all these performances and permutations, The Nutcracker has never lost its magic.
Pennsylvania Ballet’s annual run, now known as George Balanchine’s ‘The Nutcracker,’ opened Friday night at the Academy of Music. The company has danced this version since 1987. In the early years, it was a mix of choreography, but Act 2 always has been the Balanchine version – since the first one in 1968, five years after Barbara Weisberger founded the company with Balanchine’s encouragement. READ FULL STORY…
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