I highly encourage arts organizations across the world to look into how a commitment to social media (and it is a commitment!) and thinking creatively can help raise the profile of your organization and sustain your base of support throughout the year!

It is our responsibility in the field to continue to push the artform to exciting new levels, and to also offer educational opportunities to the next generation.

Set to various arrangements from multiple genres of the music from the Nutcracker Suite, beginning to end, Nut/Cracked is a masterful mash-up of nostalgia, artistry, and fun.

An annual dream. The holiday season. Presents bought and wrapped, trees decorated, houses lit. What better time, then, for the Long Beach Ballet to perform a visionary Nutcracker, their 30th production of the holiday classic?

Although I enjoy The Nutcracker for sentimental reasons, I think there are compelling reasons that we should all attend a local version.

With American ballet company directors and boards lamenting the low status of ballet in the minds of the general public, what would happen if our ballet companies offered more options during the holiday season? How did we get ourselves trapped in a can of Nuts?

Controversy continued for another week on HuffPost Arts: James Elkins' questions if artists are bored, Santa got tortured, a ballerina fights against ...