Magical toy soldiers, sparkling fairies, mischievous mice, and all the enchanting inhabitants of E.T.A. Hoffmann's whimsical world descend upon Costa Mesa's Segerstrom Hall this December for the new Southern California tradition of ballet master and ABT Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky's exhilarating imagining of The Nutcracker.

Boundary-breaking dance company Complexions Contemporary Ballet evolved from the Alvin Ailey dance troupe, where principal dancers Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson realized their choreographic dreams with the birth of a new company in 1994. The world-renowned outfit heads across North America this year!