Boston Ballet’s ‘The Gift’: Redefining traditions

December 17-27, 2020.
Accessible through BB@yourhome.They say there’s a first for everything, and — as years go — 2020 was a first for all of us. Faced with the inability to present The Nutcracker as usual, Boston Ballet created, as holiday dance celebrations go, another first: a dance embodiment of Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite, choreographed by main company and Boston Ballet II dancers. Combined with a COVID-compliant Nutcracker Grand Pas de Deux, the result wa