Fall arts guide: Your ultimate dance calendar

▪ “FIREBIRD & A Tribute to Russian Ballet & Its Composers.” Sept. 13-30. Fletcher Opera Theater. The classic Russian fairy tale with score by Igor Stravinsky and more.

▪ “Dracula,” Oct. 11-28. Fletcher Opera Theater. Lynne Taylor-Corbett’s version is back by popular demand with live music, plus artistic director Robert Weiss’s adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death.”

▪ “The Planets,” Nov. 21-25. Memorial Auditorium. New choreography by Robert Weiss and Zalman Raffael with mobiles by Durham artist Guy Solie, plus George Balanchine’s “Apollo.”

▪ “The Nutcracker.” Dec. 1-2, Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill; Dec. 14-23, Raleigh Memorial Auditorium; Dec. 29-30, Durham Performing Arts Center.

▪ Company Wayne McGregor, “Autobiography.” Oct. 25. Based on British Wayne McGregor’s own genetic sequencing. Tickets from $37.

▪ Dorrance Dance, “Myelination.” Nov. 12-13. Chapel Hill native Michelle Dorrance returns home. Tickets from $27.

▪ Moscow Ballet’s “Great Russia Nutcracker,” Dec. 11-13, 7 p.m. Pick-up company of touring Russian dancers. Tickets start at $28.

▪ “The Nutcracker.” Dec. 14-16 at multiple times. “The Nutcracker Suite,” a one-hour mini show for younger families, will have two presentations Dec. 14 and 15. Tickets are $23 to $27 for the regular show and $12 for the Suite version. A ballerina tea for $10 is Dec. 15. Buy tickets at The Cary theater, 122 E. Chatham St., Cary, or the Cary Arts Center.

▪ “The Nutcracker.” Dec. 14, 7 p.m.; Dec. 15, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Stewart Theatre, 2610 Cates Ave., Raleigh, at NC State. Ticket start at $15.

▪ Jason Moran, “Fats Waller Dance Party,” Sept. 14, 8 p.m. Durham Fruit and Produce.

▪ Nrityagram Dance Ensemble. Sept. 22, 8 p.m., Sept. 23, 3 p.m. Reynolds Industries Theater.

▪ Camille A. Brown & Dancers, “Ink.” Nov 9-10, 8 p.m. Reynolds Industries Theater.

▪ Duke University Dance Program’s Fall concert featuring new works by faculty, students and guest artists. Nov. 16 and 17, 7:30 p.m.

▪ See website for schedule.

▪ “Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games.” Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $36.

▪ See Carolina Ballet for performances.

▪ Gaspard Louis and his company perform “Souke-shake” about the 2010 Haiti earthquake, plus the final piece in Louis’ trilogy about artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Oct. 5-6, 8 p.m.

▪ Infinity Ballet presents “Dances through the Times,” Nov. 3-4

▪ Infinity Ballet presents “Dances of the Nutcracker” Nov. 30-Dec. 2.

▪ “Carols to the King: The Christmas Irish Dance Spectacular,” Dec. 20, 8 p.m.

▪ Dance Theatre in Concert, Nov. 16-17

▪ Dance Theatre and Jazz and Tap Company in Concert, Nov. 17

▪ Jazz and Tap Company, Nov. 18

▪ Dance Theatre and Jazz and Tap Company Gala, Nov. 18

▪ David Roussève/ Reality, “Halfway to Dawn – The Strayhorn Project.” Sept. 15, 8 p.m. NCSU’s Stewart Theatre, Talley Student Union. Free, work-in-progress showing.

▪ NC State Dance Program Fall Concert, Nov. 15-16, 8 p.m. $10

▪ Storybook Tales featuring “Cinderella” and “Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse.” Nov. 3-4, 3 p.m.

▪ Revolutionaries in the Dark at Reality Ministries Ballroom, Durham, Oct. 12

▪ SDW at Third Fridays, Durham, Nov. 16

This story was originally published August 18, 2018 at 7:21 PM.