Arts & Culture Categories: * PERFORMING ARTS,Ballet,Dance,Entertainment<br>Audience: Children,Teens,Adults<br>Type of Event: Entertainment,Show<br>Link: https://www.onstageogden.org/show-item/nutcracker-2026/<br><br>Ballet West&#8217;s Nutcracker returns to Ogden for Thanksgiving weekend, America&#8217;s first and longest-running production of the holiday classic. Willam Christensen choreographed it in 1944 for San Francisco Ballet, developed in consultation with George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova. For ten years his was the only complete Nutcracker in the country, and Ballet West has danced it every year since 1963.