Buellton  December 15, 2011, 8 p.m.
Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker includes spectacular new costumes and crackling choreography. Time: 8 p.m. $30, $40, $50
Chumash Casino Resort - Samala Showroom
3400 E. Highway 246
Santa Ynez, CA 
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Cupertino
Flint Center- De Anza College
GREAT RUSSIAN NUTCRACKER
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 7:30 pm 
800.745.3000

La Mirada
La Mirada Theatre
GREAT RUSSIAN NUTCRACKER
Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 3 p.m.  
Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 7 p.m.  

San Diego
Copley Symphony Hall
GREAT RUSSIAN NUTCRACKER
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 7:30 pm 
800.745.3000

Santa Rosa
Wells Fargo Center for the Arts
GREAT RUSSIAN NUTCRACKER
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 2 p.m.  
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 7:30 pm 
707.546.3600

Each year for approx. two decades the Moscow Ballet has entertained audiences in a traveling show hosted in various cities throughout the U.S. and Canada. Averaging 100 Nutcracker Ballet performances during November and December, this coast-to-coast production combines the highest caliber of Russian ballet choreography with high leaps, low lunges and multiple spins and a time honored Christmas story woven with guest artists and casting calls for local children to appear in the performances. The winning combo makes for home town appeal and incredible pride in having the locals appear side-by-side with the world's great talents of the ballet world. There are more than 30 professional dancers in each performance, larger than life puppets, 10 hand-painted backdrops, and hundreds of original Russian costumes.

The 2010 West Coast tour of Swan Lake and the Great Russian Nutcracker selected 2008 Varna International Ballet Competition (IBC) Gold Medalists Cristina and Alexei Terentiev, a premiere ballet couple, to perform the leading roles in both Swan Lake and the Great Russian Nutcracker. The couple’s dancing is acclaimed around the world.