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For many, December includes an outing to The Nutcracker ballet, and for dance schools up and down the Central Coast, holiday show ticket sales make up a large part of the yearly operating budget. But with theaters closed, performances of the holiday classic will be posted online for home viewing.
The Nutcracker, set to the music of Tchaikovsky, is a holiday production that delights audiences everywhere.
“It was first performed at the Mariinsky Theater in Russia in 1892,” said Cecily Stewart MacDougall. It’s become incredibly popular and is performed by ballet companies all over the world.
MacDougall is director of education for State Street Ballet. She said the Santa Barbara dance company has performed The Nutcracker every year since 1994 with only two interruptions a cancelled date during the Thomas fire, and now the pandemic. ....

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