Broadway World: Ballet West Performs at Kennedy Center to Sold-Out Performances

Fast-moving and continually delightful, the Ballet West version of 'The Nutcracker' is surely the one to savor this season and to seek out in coming years." - Broadway World. 

"The annual choices among ballet performances of “The Nutcracker” are as vast and varied as holiday candies. The first to appear at the Kennedy Center this year is from Ballet West, based in Salt Lake City. And as brisk and fresh as it feels, it comes as something of a surprise that its lineage goes back to the very first U.S. performance of what’s become the most popular ballet in the country by far."

"Emily Adams, a company principal since 2015,  is riveting as the Sugar Plum Fairy  accompanied by Hadriel Diniz as Cavalier, and though their pas de duex is well executed, they often are able to soar better individually at the show’s end."

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