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December 2024

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Contra Costa Ballet's The Nutcracker
 

Updated November 19, 2024
Check with venues for performance, dates and times
Nov. 29, 2:00 & 4:30pm
Nov. 30, 2:00 & 4:30pm
Dec. 1, 2:00 & 4:30pm
Contra Costa Ballet
The Nutcracker

Join Clara and her beloved nutcracker-turned-prince on a magical journey among giant mice and toy soldiers into the deliciously delightful Candy Kingdom.
Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek
Nov. 30 - Dec. 8
ODC/Dance
The Velveteen Rabbit
The 38th anniversary of the beloved Bay Area holiday tradition choreographed by KT Nelson and featuring students from ODC’s Youth & Teen Program.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Dec. 4-6

Grand Kyiv Ballet
Nutcracker

Including the most prestigious Ballet dancers from Ukraine

Hammer Theatre Center, San Jose
Dec. 5-8
Detour Productions
Beyond

An evening-length production that reassembles Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring into an intergalactic, Queer extravaganza. Directed & Choreographed by: Chuck Wilt/Fuchsia Eric Garcia/Churro Nomi.
Z Space, San Francisco
Dec. 5-8
Smuin's The Christmas Ballet
From the classical first act to the “Cool Yule” of the second
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
Dec 6-7, 7:30 PM
Stanford Live
Rite of Spring: Yang Liping & Peacock Contemporary Dance

A product of her native Chinese culture intermingled with Tibetan concepts of nature and life, Liping’s Rite of Spring spins an abstract legend of the path of salvation embodied by the sacrificial peacock.
Memorial Auditorium, Stanford University
Dec. 6-7
Once Upon A Christmas
Lareen Fender's The Ballet School

A fully narrated ballet, based on a Fantasy Forum Actors Ensemble story about a clumsy Elf named Roho.
Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek
Dec. 6-8 & 13-15
San Jose Dance Theatre
The Original San Jose Nutcracker

A holiday adventure for the whole family
Center for the Performing Arts, San Jose
Dec. 7-8, 8:00 pm
Terrain & Berkeley Moving Arts
Timeless Dance

Three generations of East Bay choreographers: Ruth Botchan, Mary Reid, and Claudine Naganuma and an intergenerational cast of 11 Bay Area professional dancers that explores timeless facets of human existence: from grief to joy, and from whimsy to resistance.
Western Sky Studio, Berkeley
Dec. 7, 7:30pm
Dec. 8, 2:30pm
Symphony San Jose
Holiday Spectacular
Christmas at the California

New Ballet, Symphony San Jose Chorale, Cantabíle Youth Singers, and special guests
California Theatre, San Jose
Dec. 7-22
Mark Foehringer Dance Project|SF
Mark Foehringer’s Nutcracker Sweets

Conceived, choreographed, and directed by Mark Foehringer
Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center for Arts, San Francisco
Dec. 13-24
Smuin's The Christmas Ballet
From the classical first act to the “Cool Yule” of the second
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Dec 14, 2 & 7 pm,
Dec 15, 11 am and 2 pm,
Dec 20, 7 pm,
Dec 21, 2 & 7 pm,
Dec 22, 11 am & 2 pm
Dec 23, 2 pm
New Ballet's
The San Jose Nutcracker

Presented with Symphony San Jose for the first time since 2013, with historical references that highlight the area's valley setting as a birthplace of innovation.
California Theatre, San Jose
Dec. 21-22,: 1:00pm
Oakland Ballet
Graham Lustig’s The Nutcracker

With live accompaniment by the Oakland Symphony and Piedmont East ay Children's Choir.
Check with theaters for dates and times.

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