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    The Nutcracker was an American Christmas musical film. This version was written by Susan Cooper. The music in this film was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, sometimes Anglicized to Peter Llich Tchaikovsky. He was a Russian composer born in 1840 who died in 1893. His music was used after his death to produce this version of the Nutcracker a hundred years later. He was educated to become a civil servant but he was precocious in music. He even received a lifetime pension from Emperor Alexander

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    Philharmonic and Oklahoma City Ballet performance of The Nutcracker took place on Sunday, November 26, 2017, at 2:00 pm at the Pikes Peak Center. This rendition featured Conductor Thomas Wilson, Oklahoma City Ballet Artistic Director Robert Mills, the Colorado Springs Children’s Chorale, and numerous student dancers from the Pikes Peak Region. Through the excellence in the music, dancing, and stage and costume design, this holiday Nutcracker performance not only captured the spirit of Pyotr Ilyich

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    The music of The Nutcracker is very joyful and entertaining. It almost feels like it is inviting the audience to dance. The theme is light yet lively, and easy to remember. The Indian music Savitha Sastray is also lively, yet the rhythms are different from The Nutcracker. In The Nutcracker, the music seems to use a binary form, whereas the Indian music seem to use ternary rhythms. The music of The Nutcracker is only instrumental, with the use of an entire orchestra, while the Indian music contains

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    On November 25, 2017 I attended The Nutcracker ballet performance at the Eisemann Center. The dance was adapted from a story by E.T.A Hoffman with the music by Tchaikovsky. The show was a faithful adaptation of The Nutcracker with the dancers, costumes, sets, and Tchaikovsky’s music all playing an integral part in depicting the story in an entertaining way. Overall, the presentation was successful in portraying the holiday classic that is The Nutcracker, and the majestic sets and costumes along with

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    attended The Nutcracker dance performance at the Eisemann Center in Richardson, Texas. The performance was an adaptation of a story by the same name which was written by E.T.A Hoffman. The show was a faithful, but imaginative depiction of the story. Overall, the presentation was successful in portraying the holiday classic tale that is The Nutcracker through the use of majestic sets, extravagant costumes, and resonating music, all while still remaining true to the narrative of The Nutcracker. The production

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    Essay On The Nutcracker

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    Tchaikovsky’s ballet, The Nutcracker, is a Christmas classic. With memorable songs and beautiful instrumentation, many cannot imagine Christmas without it. Dance companies perform the ballet year after year with spectators coming to watch annually. There have even been LGBT, hip hop, and Jewish adaptations to the popular ballet (Begley). Thousands of musicians and dancers all over the world perform it to add to the excitement and cheer of the holidays.     The original story of The Nutcracker started with ETA

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    the holiday season with their fifty-seventh annual performance of the The Nutcracker - based on E.T.A. Hoffman’s famous enchanting fable The Nutcracker and the Mouse King - at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at Denver Center for the Performing Arts. The Colorado Ballet's production of The Nutcracker is one of the most successfully performed renditions of the classic in the country; winning the Goldstar National Nutcracker Award in 2016. Artistic Director, Gill Boggs, gave us a performance brimming

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    the audience members who had already found their seats to watch “The Nutcracker” that was directed by Ashley Miller Davis based on E.T.A. Hoffman’s, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816). The production was choreographed very well by DeAnn Petruschke and Ashley Miller Davis. The costume crew Lisa Ivy and Brenda Linton also did a great job with each of the actor and actresses costumes. I have never seen the original “Nutcracker” before so I did not really have anything to compare this production

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    Nutcracker Ballet Essay

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    The Nutcracker ballet is an important piece of the holiday seasons. The story and the music that is performed never changed over the years but people love to recreate it and add their own ideas to it. This semester I attended a performance of the Nutcracker presented by Kingwood Dance Theatre at Atascocita High School Theatre. The music that was used for the ballet came from Peter Tchaikovsky, from the romantic era, and the original choreography of this performance was first created by John Adamson

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    Nutcracker Surprise Essay

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    Nutcracker surprise Wow! My eyes popped out. So this was ballet. The beautiful and gracefulness of the dancers. Of how the worker together as a team, but still shine bright as an individual. From when the first performer stepped out to the bows, I knew I wanted to dance like that. I like the way the dancers was up there, and they looked fearless and they me feel fearless and confident. It was like a little secret that was calling my name and I had to be a dancer so I could be part of that secret

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