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The Inland Pacific Ballet, the Los Angeles Ballet, and other celebrated SoCal troupes will revisit the Christmas classic.

“I think that the audiences are ready, they’ve missed us, and they’re eager to come back,” ABT Executive Director Kara Medoff Barnett told CNBC on Friday.

With two major events in the same weekend, the international arts scene signaled it has no intention of letting yet another year get canceled by Covid.  

Misty Copeland inspired the next generation of Black girls as the first Black woman to be named a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre. In a wide-ranging interview with LX News host Tabitha Lipkin, she talked about the people who have inspired her — from Raven Wilkinson, who was the first Black ballerina to dance in an all-white company...

“A Night at the Ballet,” is a free streaming event that premieres on Thursday. The event, filmed in a small New York theater, will treat ballet-starved fans to dancers from America’s top companies performing excerpts of classical ballets like “Romeo and Juliet, “The Nutcracker” and “Don Quixote.”

The Pasadena Civic Ballet has taken the annual treat to an under-the-sky space. A new twist? Fans of the magical tale will watch from their cars.

With families wondering how they will celebrate the holidays during coronavirus shutdowns, the Hill-Stead Museum and Ballet Theatre Company have partnered to bring The Nutcracker to life with a costume exhibition and ballet performances in a life-sized snow globe.

The coronavirus has hit one part of the arts and entertainment world especially hard, and that’s performances of “The Nutcracker.”

Anthony Madu, 11, was invited to study ballet with the best dancers in the world after a viral video of him leaping and pirouetting in the rain-soaked streets of Lagos, Nigeria, caught the attention of the American Ballet Theatre.

Across the country, both the pandemic and now the protests have hurt many businesses, forcing them to close. Many have had to go online and just try to make it through. Lisa McCabe, an African American ballet teacher and business owner in San Marcos, shared with NBC 7 how both have affected her business and her passion to be a…

Thirty-two dancers from 14 countries have performed a ballet for a virtual audience to benefit the struggling dance community