Overview
- Buenos Aires’ Teatro Colón opened Silvia Bazilis’s two‑act El Cascanueces for 13 sold‑out shows through Dec. 28, with guest Lucas Erni featured in select dates and a separate one‑hour youth piece, El Hada de Azúcar, set for Dec. 19–21.
- In Lima Norte, Inside Ballet stages the area’s first full Nutcracker with a live symphony at Teatro Plaza Norte on Dec. 13–14, assembling about 130 performers under director Leo Casterán and conductor Eduardo Choque.
- Mexico City’s Compañía Nacional de Danza returns to Auditorio Nacional Dec. 18–23 with the Orquesta del Teatro de Bellas Artes, sustaining a 22‑year run and aiming, per director Érick Rodríguez, to reach one million cumulative spectators.
- The CND production fields more than 200 artists to Nina Novak’s version with Ayyub Guliyev on the podium, and brings in students from national dance schools for roles across the cast.
- At Cenart, Diego Vázquez’s El otro cascanueces reframes the “Arabian” dance through a Gaza fisherman and blends debke, voguing, hip hop and aerial work, with performances today and tomorrow.