Few events signal the start of the holiday season more than the Nutcracker. Fans of the world-famous ballet will have an opportunity to see the show live in San Antonio.

The School of Ballet San Antonio aims to teach children all aspects of the ballet when they attend its programs.

The South Texas Symphonic Orchestra and the San Antonio Youth Ballet will be performing "The Nutcracker" this December.

Ballet and sex trafficking are two things you wouldn’t expect to be associated with one another. However, a faith-based ballet company out of Chicago is bringing its unique performance, “Reckless,” to San Antonio.

The Children's Ballet of San Antonio is a nonprofit organization that brings the arts to the community and after more than a year, they are back and ready to perform.

Hamrick's Live Arts Global company is producing A Night at the Ballet, a free streaming event that premieres this week. They depend on a live audience to do their work, of course, and most live paycheck to paycheck. The result is “A Night at the Ballet,” a free streaming event that premieres Thursday and was produced by Live Arts Global, founded by Hamrick and her partners, Christine Shevchenko (a principal dancer at ABT) and Joanna DeFelice. AP: What gave you the idea for “A Night at the Ballet”? But that was really just the dancers, and we thought, how can we help everybody in this live arts world?

San Antonio – A San Antonio couple is sharing their love for ballet with the community after opening their very own ballet studio. We guide them how we would our own kids.”The passion for ballet started at age 8 for Cruz in his home country of Cuba. It is a beautiful art that goes with or without music.”For Dec, the passion started when she was three, growing up in Virginia. They used to call her ‘hummingbird.’”If you are interested in joining their ballet family at DeCruz Ballet Studio, you can visit their website https://www.lindsiandkarel.com/ or email them at decruzballet@gmail.com. To see performances of Cruz and Dec, click on the links below:RELATED: What’s Up South Texas!

San Antonio There is still a way for you to enjoy the classic nutcracker ballet even in uncertain times like these, with Danielle Campbell Steans ingenious plan of providing a drive-In ballet experience. Danielle still hopes that it is safe enough for her dancers from the San Antonio Ballet School to be able to perform The Nutcracker live, but assuming this isnt the case then dont worry fans will still be able to get their ballet fill. The idea is to have attendees drive in and watch from the safety of their vehicles, and if it is safe enough allow them to bring lawn chairs and even possibly have live performers accompanying the pre-recording. Community auditions for supporting cast members will be on Saturday, August 29thFor more information regarding The Nutcracker and dance classes at the San Antonio Ballet School in general, head over to their website.

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