The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

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

because of Christmas coming up, which is when The Nutcracker is usually performed. The original composer was P.I. Tchaikovsky, a Russian composer during the Romantic period. Tchaikovsky composed eleven operas, three ballets, over one hundred songs, and orchestral music. His three ballets, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker have become some of the most well-known pieces from the Romantic period, and are still widely popular today. The Nutcracker was

Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” and Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring “ are two of the most influential ballets to ever be recorded. Their ballets have been played and duplicated for many years. I will start this paper with a summary of each composer which will include where they are from culturally, geographically and musically. Then I talk about each ballet. Where it was written, the story behind each piece, and its reception now and its reception at the time it was published. I will also include the

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

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

featuring The Richmond Ballet Amber Hisaw Regent University – Music 101 On the evening of Sunday, December 16, 2012, I had the pleasure of attending a concert I’d wanted to see for quite a while. I was delighted to attend Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, performed by the Richmond Symphony Orchestra and the Richmond Ballet. The performance took place at Carpenter Theatre in Richmond Virginia. As I entered I felt a bit out of place. I’d never attended a performance quite like this one and I was a

Each year, it is a tradition within my family to see “The Nutcracker” at Christmastime. “The Nutcracker” is a ballet about a young German girl, Clara, who dreams of a Nutcracker Prince and a battle with a Mouse King, that was helped to be made famous by a Russian composer, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Along with “The Nutcracker”, Tchaikovsky composed the works from two other popular ballets, “Swan Lake” and “Sleeping Beauty”. Tchaikovsky and his compositions played a major role in changing and shaping

neoclassical, and contemporary ballet. Romantic ballets often shows dancer’s on Pointe with tutus… your stereotypical ballerina. Classical ballet is sought to be more of traditional technique. Some examples of classical ballet are Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and Sleeping Beauty. Neoclassical ballet is a style that utilizes classical ballet technique. In this style of ballet there is no clear plot, costumes or scenery. Finally, contemporary ballet allows for any style to influence a choreography, however

According to Betsy Schwarm in an article called ‘The Nutcracker’ from the Encyclopædia Britannica, the Nutcracker was inspired by and based off of a story called ‘The Nutcracker and Mouse King’, by E.T.A. Hoffman. When Tchaikovsky started to compose the Nutcracker, he did so without much vigor. Tchaikovsky believed that the Nutcracker was not a very good piece and he frequently compared the quality with his earlier ballet called Sleeping Beauty. The Nutcracker was finished in the year 1892 and parts of the

works. When the key is turned, the melody flows angelically through my small room, and I feel as if I am not longer present—instead, I am swept away to a wonderous, snowy world with enchanting dancers. My only connection to Tchaikovsky let alone The Nutcracker is a ballerina figurine that I left back home. I did not have a clue what to expect, but I could barely contain my excitement. Prior to the concert, we had covered Tchaikovsky in