Nancy Harms, Mother Ginger, reads "The Story of the Nutcracker Ballet" to kids during the Sugar Plum Fairy Tea Party on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014, in Winona.

Her character is Brown Sugar, a Sugar Plum Fairy with a dash of showgirl spice, adapted for Ballethnic’s “Urban Nutcracker” set in Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn neighborhood in the 1940s.This ...

While the big finale between the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier offers "The Nutcracker's" most majestic moments, it's just one of many memorable dance sequences in George Balanchine's holiday ...

The Sugar Plum Fairy is the queen of George Balanchine's "The Nutcracker." She presides over the ballet's second act with regal grace, and her breathtaking duet with her Cavalier is one of the ...

The “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” is so familiar that it’s difficult to imagine that when this music was new, in 1892, it was really new. And that’s because of the celesta.