San Francisco Ballet first staged the holiday perennial

Mark Morris Dance Group's 'The Hard Nut' in Berkeley

'Other Suns' plays Project Artaud

As the 2007 'Dance-Along Nutcracker' returns this weekend

Three quintessential SF dance projects this weekend

ODC/Dance's 'The Velveteen Rabbit' innovates with ASL narrator

Contemporary dance from different directions

American Ballet Theatre brings it to Berkeley

Congolese movements by Faustin Linyekula

'Skydancers' aerial dance fest

Carey Perloff & Val Caniparoli's 'The Tosca Project' at

'Trolley Dances' integrate movement and Muni