Piotr Tchaikovsky Analysis

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The title of the dance that I watch from Youtube.com is called Piotr Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker. The name of the choreography is Vasily Vainoneon, The conductor 's name is Valery Gergiev and the stage and costumes are made by Benjamin Tyrrell. The source of the music was astonishing to listen throughout the concert. The music helps the dancers to flow within each stride of the beat is brought out. There is about thirty to forties dancers on stage. Some of the dancers, are young children’s of boys and girls, and others are adults’ dancers too. On the stage, during Christmas, they seem to be delivering a court party in a fancy house. The magician was there as well, he seems to be causing trouble inside the party. He tells the other children to leave for the party.
In the mist of the dance, the little girl is dancing with her doll, she is using each little space of
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On the spur of the moment when the soldiers chased away the mice, I was feeling happy when the girl is finally being safe again. The storyline is about a girl at home when her household is holding a Christmas Eve party, when the party is over, the girl was left along and she shifted into another universe. She need to aid the prince to fight away the evil mice king, and she was able to give back to her world, but she was only dreaming about the event. The images that came to my mind is that when I watch the dance, is reminding me of the famous book called Narnia, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. How I was able to connect to this dance, to me it is an important fantasy storytelling from our story on how the arts demonstrates the imagination can be a powerful thing for a human being can have and able to bring it to live with love. In my beliefs, the play reminds me the importance’s on follow your dreams no matter where it gets you, you’ll become a

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