The Nutcracker

addition to being a festive time for celebrating with friends and family, is also a time to enjoy classic fine arts together. A stable every Christmas season is the Nutcracker, which the literature is republished in multiple forms including play, dance, and orchestra concerts. This season I had the pleasure of being a audience of The Nutcracker presented at the McCaw Hall. The show was phenomenal, and included moments of cheerfulness and happiness, but during others moments of grave danger and…

part in the Nutcracker. Every day there will be a girl leaving the dance school, so it was really painful and scary. Felice was really bad and the dance teacher said she would be out the first time but…

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…

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On a snowy night in 1892, The Nutcracker (originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Balletmaster Lev Ivanov) made its first appearance at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. With a dazzling original score by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and classical ballet choreography, The Nutcracker became a holiday tradition in the United States a few years after its first full-length American production by dancer/choreographer Willam Christensen for the San Francisco Ballet on December…

I hated science when I was younger. It was something that I wanted absolutely nothing to do with it. My dream was to be a ballerina, more specifically I wanted to be Clara in The Nutcracker. I spent a lot of my childhood in hospitals. Sometimes I can still feel the harsh lights beating down on me and smell the Lysol. My father has been sick for most of my life and in a way, I resented him. I resented the illness that made him sick and unable to be like all my friends' fathers and I resented the…

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is a fictional story written by E.T.A Hoffmann in 1816. This magical Christmas story is about a girl getting a very magical soldier doll, and go on the most unexpected adventure yet. There are hundreds of versions of this story, sad versions and happy versions, but the storyline remains the same. There are books, movies, plays, and even ballets! The original ballet was in 1892. The magical night of Christmas Eve this takes place. The protagonist named Clara is…

tickets through her job to see a preview of the Cincinnati Ballet’s production of “The New Nutcracker”. I had seen productions of the ballet before but I was excited to see what this new production brought. Years later, it has become my favorite holiday tradition to see the Nutcracker every year. I went to a preview of the show over Thanksgiving break and experience the holiday cheer all over again. The new Nutcracker is very different from the traditional way the ballet is performed. Conducted…

On my first Nutcracker when I was four years old my grandparents asked me when I would get over Nutcracker, and I told them when I got casted as Clara. Little did I know that I would have the amazing opportunity nine years later. My ballet studio released casting for our seasonal nutcracker recently, and I couldn’t wait for the day to come. My friends and I had an hour wait while our parents went to a meeting for performance information. While Hayley, Ryan, and I waited we decided to go to…

Marchenkova was the raunchiest Tall Girl I have ever seen. Subtlety? Nyet! I'm not really sure what I thought about it, except that it wasn't boring. Her legs were like pistols, and she looked the audience straight in the eye: never letting them out of her grasp. She did make an effort at the style and certainly should be credited with dancing extremely big. Not even a particularly tall dancer, she certainly did everything to look like one. Krysanova/Lopatin looked like they had walked…