“Urban Nutcracker” gives Black audiences a unique, highly relatable take on a ballet that was first performed in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1892 and which, in most white companies, still ...

(Courtesy of HughE Dillon) For generations, annual performances of the Nutcracker ... Black men. “If you look at the art form generally and you look at ballet companies across the country, you are ...

Last winter, Michelle Dorrance and her company tap-danced to “The Nutcracker Suite” in the White House ... the roots of jazz and tap dance in the Black community and incorporates themes ...

New York and Brooklyn, N.Y. Since “The Nutcracker” had its 1892 premiere ... and female dancers uniformly costumed in short black-and-white tutus and bolero tops—their coiffeurs peaked ...