Audiences who attended the Saint Louis Dance Theatre and Jazz St. Louis presentation of “Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker” this weekend left filled with something even more special than the ...

Strayhorn was Ellington’s long-time collaborator, and this adaptation was released as an album in 1960. Jazz St. Louis has been performing this Nutcracker in concert at the Skip Viragh Center ...

Experience the magic of the Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker, presented by the Saint Louis Dance Theatre. Held at Chaminade College Preparatory School, the performance brought Duke Ellington and ...

St. Louis Dance Theatre, formerly Big Muddy Dance Company, is doing a new version of “The Nutcracker” by taking the work of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn and choreographing a modern ...

On December 20 and 21, director Kirven Douthit-Boyd will test-drive a holiday ballet of his own, mounting a one-act narrative work set to Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s 1960 Nutcracker Suite.

Taking their cue from Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s extraordinary reinterpretation of “The Nutcracker Suite,” Michelle Dorrance and co-choreographers Hannah Heller and Josette Wiggan ...

Tap shoes kick pointe shoes aside in this animated version of the holiday classic, percussively danced to Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s “Nutcracker Suite,” reimagined from Tchaikovsky ...

Danced to Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's marvelously inventive 1960 reinterpretation of the classic Tchaikovsky score, The Nutcracker Suite boogies, slides, struts, and dives through the ...