Indy Ballet & Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra: The Nutcracker

Indy Ballet & Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra: The Nutcracker at Clowes Memorial Hall

From Clara's home to the Land of the Sweets, every change in the story has music moving with it. On December 19, 2026, at 7:30 PM, Indy Ballet and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra bring The Nutcracker to Clowes Memorial Hall in Indianapolis, and the whole evening is built around Clara's Christmas Eve journey into the Land of the Sweets. It begins in a cozy holiday world. Then the story opens a door to something far more magical.

The dancing and the music happen together, live. Tchaikovsky's score is performed by the ISO, so every leap, turn and quiet moment is carried by an orchestra in the same room as the dancers. A recording can't match that. Live music gives the story breath, and live ballet gives the music a body. Add the production's visual world of snowflakes, flowers and the Sugar Plum Fairy, and you have a night that fills your eyes and your ears at once.

The Saturday evening performance makes room for a full night at the theatre. It also gives you a reason to get out of the house with the people you love. Indianapolis Ballet traces its Nutcracker tradition here to 2007, and this full collaboration at Clowes is a different experience from the one-hour Nutcracker Sweets. If you want December to hold one evening you will still remember in January, plan it now. Choose your seats for The Nutcracker in Indianapolis and let Clara's adventure begin.