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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. 5-6, 12-13, 8:00 PM Dec. 7 & 14, 2:00 PM	CounterPulse ARC Performing Diaspora 2024 An incubation residency and commissioning program that supports artists whose work is rooted in a traditional art form, yet is also completely contemporary. invites the audience into a poetic and movement ritual exploration of the story of migration and the formation of self.	CounterPulse, San Francisco
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. 6 - 29	San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker Helgo Tomasson’s beloved holiday classic	War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
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.	Paramount Theatre, Oakland

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