Nutcracker: Music Analysis

This piece that really stood out to me was “The snow.” The snow stood out to me because of their bizarre moves and tempo of the music. As seeing the nutcracker as someone who never been given the opportunity to watch my ballet production, I somewhat enjoy the production. It was very confusing cause i didn't know what the nutcracker storyline was about. Though the production Act, instrumental background help set the mood of the performance. In this Act of the snow was part one, it had mice and soldiers fighting and having the little girl in this campy as she was dressed in a beautiful pink dress. She almost looks scared and confused as the soldiers and mice are having a battle with each other, and towards the end she comes down the capity …show more content…
In this act the performer had big dresses like the renaissance era and as for the man had big white wigs. As the background it set the mood of this relieving scene as they saw the princess again. This performances was had very upbeat mood to the act. To compare the two acts of the nutcracker was they both had fast tempo background instrumental music that set the tone of the production of “the snow and the land of the sugar plum fairy.” Both of the performances had the girls on pointe shoe which I thought was super fascinating to see. The differences is that one had a renaissance era theme and the snow had a alice and wonderful land feel to it and also their costume and makeup. My thoughts on the whole performance, I can see how people may enjoy watching this and I felt to see this as much as something I have to watch then enjoying the production. It might be because of how long the performance was, sitting for two hours is not my cup of tea. My favorite part of the dance was seeing the dancers in pointe shoes and least favorite how long it was. I would love to show ballet again because it's such a beautiful