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The Nutcracker The Nutcracker ( / "Shchelkunchik, Balet-feyeriya" ; ) is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Op. 71). The libretto is adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". Although the original production was not a success, the 20-minute suite that Tchaikovsky extracted from the ballet was. However, the complete "Nutcracker" has enjoyed enormous popularity since the late 1960s and is now performed by countless ballet companies, primarily during the Christmas season, especially in North America. Major American ballet companies generate around
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The Nutcracker The Nutcracker ( / "Shchelkunchik, Balet-feyeriya" ; ) is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Op. 71). The libretto is adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". Although the original production was not a success, the 20-minute suite that Tchaikovsky extracted from the ballet was. However, the complete "Nutcracker" has enjoyed enormous popularity since the late 1960s and is now performed by countless ballet companies, primarily during the Christmas season, especially in North America. Major American ballet companies generate around
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movement of his "Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale", a work composed in 1846 for the dedication of a monument to France's war dead. Two of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballets, "The Sleeping Beauty" and "The Nutcracker", contain apotheoses as finales; the same is true of Ludwig Minkus's "La Bayadère". Igor Stravinsky's composed Orpheus (ballet) and Apollo (ballet) for choreographer George Balanchine which both contain episodes entitled "Apotheose". The concluding tableau of Maurice Ravel's "Ma mère l'Oye" is also titled "Apotheose." Czech composer Karel Husa, concerned in 1970 about arms proliferation and environmental deterioration, named his musical response "Apotheosis for This Earth".
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after the Second World War, when numerous American soldiers stationed in Germany came home to the United States with German nutcrackers as souvenirs. Further popularization came from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker", a ballet adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King", which featured a toy soldier nutcracker. The ballet, introduced to America during the mid-20th century, became a favorite holiday tradition across the United States and helped make nutcracker dolls a Christmas decoration and a seasonal icon across Western culture. An average handcrafted nutcracker doll is made out of about 60 separate pieces. Nutcracker
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Nutcracker: The Motion Picture Nutcracker: The Motion Picture, also known as Pacific Northwest Ballet's Nutcracker or simply Nutcracker, is a 1986 American Christmas performing arts film produced by Pacific Northwest Ballet in association with Hyperion Pictures and Kushner/Locke, and released theatrically by Atlantic Releasing Corporation. It is a film adaptation of the ballet "The Nutcracker" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and the short story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E. T. A. Hoffmann. Drosselmeyer, a clockmaker and toymaker, is in his workshop. Suddenly getting an idea, he begins building on an intricate mechanical project resembling a cross between a
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E. T. A. Hoffmann Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (commonly abbreviated as E. T. A. Hoffmann; born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 177625 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's famous opera "The Tales of Hoffmann", in which Hoffmann appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of the novella "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King", on which Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker" is based. The ballet "Coppélia" is based on two other stories that
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studied at the Imperial Ballet, becoming an official member of the Corps de ballet in 1852. Among his teachers during this time were Jean-Antoine Petipa, Alexandr Pimenov, Pierre Frédéric Malavergne and Emile Gredlu (). Historically, Ivanov is credited with choreographing the entirety of premiere of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker" in 1892 due to the ill health of the ballet master, Marius Petipa. While some contemporary and modern accounts dispute this, Ivanov is still mentioned in "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition" with choreographing at least the majority of the ballet as Petipa had reportedly
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tale, one of the children wants to ask what happened to Anna. Suddenly a grownup Alan appears at the door. As he and the teacher, now revealed to be Anna, leave the stage together, the other children start rehearsing Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet. Unknown to all of them, the Care Bear Family has been listening all along. "Care Bears Nutcracker Suite" is loosely based on "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E. T. A. Hoffmann, as well as the "Nutcracker" ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Animation was produced by Toronto's Nelvana; South Korea's Hanho Heung-Up; Taiwan's Wang Film Productions;
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The Nutcracker Prince The Nutcracker Prince is a 1990 Canadian animated fantasy film made by Lacewood Productions and released by Warner Bros. Pictures and directed by Paul Schibli. The film was based on the story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E. T. A. Hoffmann and also influenced by its ballet adaptation "The Nutcracker". Tchaikovsky's music to that ballet is used as the main instrumental soundtrack. The film centers on a young man named Hans who is transformed into a nutcracker by mice, and can only break the spell if he slays the Mouse King and wins the heart
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Entertainment. Both releases have no extras besides animated menus and a theatrical trailer. The Nutcracker Prince The Nutcracker Prince is a 1990 Canadian animated fantasy film made by Lacewood Productions and released by Warner Bros. Pictures and directed by Paul Schibli. The film was based on the story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E. T. A. Hoffmann and also influenced by its ballet adaptation "The Nutcracker". Tchaikovsky's music to that ballet is used as the main instrumental soundtrack. The film centers on a young man named Hans who is transformed into a nutcracker by mice, and can only
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excerpts runs 73 minutes, containing more than two-thirds of the music. Conductor Neeme Järvi has recorded act 2 of the ballet complete, along with excerpts from "Swan Lake". The music is played by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. For a comprehensive list of stage, film and television adaptations of "The Nutcracker", see: List of productions of "The Nutcracker" Several films having little or nothing to do with the ballet or the original Hoffmann tale have used its music: There have been several recorded children's adaptations of the E.T.A. Hoffmann story (the basis for the ballet) using Tchaikovsky's music, some quite
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since 2001, when he conducted "The Nutcracker". He became Alberta Ballet's Music Director in October 2005. In 2010, two productions of "The Nutcracker" in Vancouver were conducted by siblings. For Alberta Ballet, the conductor was Peter Dala; for Goh Ballet, the conductor was Leslie Dala, the associate conductor of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra. Peter Dala Peter Dala is a Canadian conductor of opera and ballet. He is a music director of the Alberta Ballet. He has conducted in Canada, The United States, Switzerland, England, Monte Carlo, Israel, Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong and China. Peter Dala was born in Toronto. His
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music by Johann Sebastian Bach; Fancy Free (ballet) choreographed by Jerome Robbins, music by Leonard Bernstein; and a new work) "Peter and the Wolf" (choreography by Michael Smuin, music by Sergei Prokofiev, opening with Bruch Violin Concerto No.1 choreographed by Clark Tippet, music by Max Bruch) "Giselle" (music by Adolphe Adam) "The Nutcracker" (music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) "Cinderella" (music by Prokofiev) "Director's Choice" (Traveling Alone choreographed by Amy Seiwert; Edwaard Liang’s Feast of the Gods; and a new work) "The Sleeping Beauty" (choreographed by Marius Petipa, music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) "The Nutcracker" (music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) Ballet MasterWorks (includes Igor
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The Nutcracker (1973 film) The Nutcracker (, transcribed as "Schelkunchik") is a 1973 Soviet/Russian animated film from the Soyuzmultfilm studio directed by Boris Stepantsev and based partly on Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker", but more closely on E.T.A. Hoffmann's novelette "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King", the story which inspired the ballet. Ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who himself starred in his own classic TV edition of "The Nutcracker" in 1977, included the 1973 animated film as part of his PBS series "Stories from my Childhood", of which he was the executive producer. For the U.S. telecast, narration spoken first by
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music in the original orchestral arrangements. It was quite faithful to Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King", on which the ballet is based, even to the point of including the section in which Clara cuts her arm on the glass toy cabinet, and also mentioning that she married the Prince at the end. It also included a less gruesome version of "The Tale of the Hard Nut", the tale-within-a-tale in Hoffmann's story. It was released as part of the Tale Spinners for Children series. The Nutcracker The Nutcracker ( / "Shchelkunchik, Balet-feyeriya" ; ) is a two-act ballet,
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of Beatrix Potter "West Side & Other Stories", The Nutcracker, "My Fair Lady", The Jungle Book L'Histoire du soldat, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella (Prokofiev) "Dance Out Loud", The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Alice in Wonderland Giselle, The Nutcracker, A Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet) "Ballet Under the Stars", "A Tribute to Ballets Russes", The Nutcracker, "A Dance Affair", Snow White, "Ballet Under the Stars", "Hard Rock Ballet", Cinderella (Prokofiev), The Nutcracker "Hard Rock Ballet", Coppélia "Ballet Under the Stars" The Firebird, The Nutcracker, "Ion Dance", Cinderella (Prokofiev) "Ballet Under the Stars", "Fabric of Dance: 3′s Company", Opening Ceremony of
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had to be excised for the ballet. Petipa gave Tchaikovsky extremely detailed instructions for the composition of each number, down to the tempo and number of bars. The completion of the work was interrupted for a short time when Tchaikovsky visited the United States for twenty-five days to conduct concerts for the opening of Carnegie Hall. Tchaikovsky composed parts of "The Nutcracker" in Rouen, France. The first performance of the ballet was held as a double premiere together with Tchaikovsky's last opera, "Iolanta", on , at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Although the libretto was by Marius
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Atlanta Festival Ballet The Atlanta Festival Ballet Company is composed of ten professional dancers and student apprentices who have dedicated themselves to the discipline of dance performance. The Company began as the vision of Co-Artistic Director Gregory Aaron, and made its debut on November 4, 1989 in a full length performance of "Cinderella". In 1994, the Company welcomed Nicolas Pacaña as Co-Artistic Director. Gregory Aaron does the choreography. The Company hosts two major ballet productions a year, including its classic version of The Nutcracker. The Atlanta Festival ballet Company also hosts its own school, the Atlanta Festival Ballet School. Many
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Texas Ballet Theater The Texas Ballet Theater was founded by Margo Dean and Fernando Schaffenburg in 1961 as the Fort Worth Ballet, in Fort Worth, Texas. It became a fully professional ballet company in 1985. In 1988, after the demise of Dallas Ballet, the company began adding performances of The Nutcracker in Dallas in a business partnership with The Dallas Opera, producing Nutcracker performances in The Music Hall and using The Dallas Opera Orchestra. Fort Worth Ballet became the Fort Worth Dallas Ballet in 1994 when The Dallas Supporters of FWDB, a separate 501(c)3 corporation with its own Board of
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Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker" (1892) is based on "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King", and the ballet "Coppélia", with music by Delibes, is based on two eerie Hoffmann stories. Hoffmann also influenced 19th-century musical opinion directly through his music criticism. His reviews of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 (1808) and other important works set new literary standards for writing about music, and encouraged later writers to consider music as "the most Romantic of all the arts." Hoffmann's reviews were first collected for modern readers by Friedrich Schnapp, ed., in "E.T.A. Hoffmann: Schriften zur Musik; Nachlese" (1963)
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P. I. Tchaikovsky) "The Nutcracker" (choreography after Marius Petipa, music by P. I. Tchaikovsky) "Ballet MasterWorks" (includes "The Firebird" choreographed by Yuri Possokhov, music by Igor Stravinsky; Serenade choreographed by George Balanchine, music by P.I. Tchaikovsky; and Petite Mort choreographed by Jiří Kylián, music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) "The Little Mermaid" (choreography by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, music by Michael Moricz), opening with Bruch Violin Concerto No.1 choreographed by Clark Tippet, music by Max Bruch) Colorado Ballet's 2015-2016 season opened on October 2, 2015. "La Sylphide" (choreography by August Bournonville, music by Herman Severin Løvenskiold) "The Nutcracker" (choreography after Marius Petipa, music
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International Music Festival "Shalyapin. Nureyev. Kazan" during 2013 Summer Universiade in the city of Kazan (Tatarstan, Russia). In 2012, Ermakov starred in "Big Ballet" TV show on channel. In December 2012, Ermakov together with Ulyana Lopatkina took part in Gala "Three centuries of Petersburg ballet" marking 275th anniversary of Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, and in New Year Gala "Ulyana Lopatkina – Johann Strauss Ball". February 2012 saw the debut of Ermakov as a guest artist in the role of Nutcracker Prince in The Nutcracker with the Yakobson Ballet Company. In October 2015 cooperation with Yakobson ballet continued and Ermakov
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have not actually altered the music. For instance, the 1954 George Balanchine New York City Ballet version adds to Tchaikovsky's score an entr'acte that the composer wrote for act 2 of "The Sleeping Beauty", but which is now seldom played in productions of that ballet. It is used as a transition between the departure of the guests and the battle with the mice. Nearly all of the CD and LP recordings of the complete ballet present Tchaikovsky's score exactly as he originally conceived it. Tchaikovsky was less satisfied with "The Nutcracker" than with "The Sleeping Beauty". (In the film "Fantasia",
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of the National Theatre Ballet in Prague. He has used traditional stories like Sleeping Beauty and the Nutcracker as the basis for modern ballets. For example, his production of the Nutcracker uses the Tchaikovsky score, but changes the story to tell of Charles Dickens' tale of Scrooge, combining the two beloved Christmas stories into one ballet. In each ballet Vámos is intrigued by the original music and its ability to convey character and emotional nuance to the audience. His choreography mirrors these characteristics through its idiosyncratic movements that give each dancer a particular role. Vámos created many of these ballets
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music by Philip Feeney) "The Nutcracker" (choreography after Marius Petipa, music by P. I. Tchaikovsky) "Romeo and Juliet" (choreography by Derek Deane, music by Sergei Prokofiev) "Ballet Director's Choice" (includes "Pillar of Fire" choreographed by Antony Tudor, music by Arnold Schoenberg; "Brief Fling" choreographed by Twyla Tharp, music by Michel Colombier and Percy Grainger; and a third work) Colorado Ballet's 2016-2017 season opened on October 7, 2016. "Swan Lake" (choreography after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov set and updated by former American Ballet Theatre principals Amanda McKerrow and John Gardner and Sandra Brown, Ballet Mistress for Colorado Ballet, music by
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artistic director, John McFall’s 15th season. The ballet also welcomed new executive director Arthur Jacobus to the company. For the 2010-2011 season, the Atlanta Ballet performed "Moulin Rouge: The Ballet", Atlanta Ballet's "Nutcracker, Nutty Nutcracker", "Sleeping Beauty", "Fusion: Lambarena" as a world premier, and "Ignition: New Choreographic Voices". The 2012-13 season included Michael Pink’s "Dracula", David Bintley's "Carmina Burana", Ohad Naharin’s "Minus 16", "Nutcracker", "Cinderella" and Gina Patterson's "I Am". For the 2014-2015 season, the Atlanta Ballet performances include "Nutcracker", "Roméo et Juliette", "Snow White", "Camino Real", "Modern Choreographic Voices", and "MAYhem". MAYhem included THREE, The Exiled, and 1st Flash.
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Cleveland Ballet The Cleveland Ballet was founded in 1972 by Dennis Nahat and Ian Horvath as a dance school, the School of Cleveland Ballet. They subsequently recruited professional dancers who by 1975 were previewing performances around Cleveland. The company first performed at the Hanna Theatre November 16, 1976. A year later the Ohio Chamber Orchestra began providing live music and in 1978 the company presented its first original full-length ballet, “The Gift” in 1976 "The Nutcracker" in 1979, "Coppelia", "Romeo and Juliet" and "Swan Lake" were next added to the repertory. In 1984 Horvath resigned, leaving Nahat solely responsible for
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and the Genee Ballet Competition. Oakville Ballet Company consists of students from the Oakville School of Classical Ballet, who are selected by audition. The company has a wide repertoire including "Giselle", "La Fille Mal Gardée", "La Bayadère", "Paquita", "Swan Lake", "La Sylphide", "The Sleeping Beauty" and its hugely popular annual "The Nutcracker". The Oakville Ballet Company's "The Nutcracker" consists of dancers (both male and female) from the OBC (Oakville Ballet Company) and includes a male principal dancer from the National Ballet of Canada. Oakville Ballet Company The Oakville Ballet Company is a ballet company in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Oakville School
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way. For the advanced player, this is an excellent edition to reap the rewards of the Nutcracker Suite." "Guitar Player" called it "An exhilarating, odd-meter minefield inspired by Near Eastern music. An important recording from a gifted composer, arranger and performer." Balkan Dreams Suite (trad. arr. Tim Sparks) The Nutcracker Suite (Tim Sparks album) The Nutcracker Suite is a recording by American guitarist Tim Sparks, released in 1993. It consists of both an adaptation for acoustic guitar of Tchaikovsky's suite from his ballet "The Nutcracker" and the Balkan Dreams Suite, a suite of songs based on melodies and ideas of
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by Lar Lubovitch and The Faraway - choreography by Matthew Neenan) "Dracula" (choreography by Michael Pink, music by Philip Feeney) "The Nutcracker" (music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) "Romeo and Juliet" (choreography by Alun Jones) "Great Galloping Gottschalk" (choreographed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, music by Louis Moreau Gottschalk) "Rodeo" (choreographed by Agnes de Mille, music by A. Copland) "Don Quixote" (choreographed by Marius Petipa, music by Ludwig Minkus) "The Nutcracker" (music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) "Beauty and the Beast" (choreographed by Domy Reiter-Soffer, music by Seen-yee Lam) "Echoing of Trumpets" (choreographed by Antony Tudor) "Celts" (choreographed by Lila York) Since 1961, "The Nutcracker" has
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Indian Nutcracker Indian Nutcracker is an adaptation of the famous story of Nutcracker into South Indian Classical Dance Form called Kuchipudi. The Dance Drama entitled Swapna Vijayam, is produced, directed and choreographed by "Sasikala Penumarthi", who is the Founder / Director of the Academy of "Kuchipudi" Dance, , which was established in 1997 as an Atlanta, Georgia based non-profit organization. The story of Nutcracker is adapted into Telugu Language, with Lyrics provided by the well-known writer Indraganti Srikantha Sarma from Hyderabad, India. Music for this performance is composed by a popular singer from the Atlanta area, Subhashini Krishnamurthy and the
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A Nutcracker Christmas A Nutcracker Christmas is a Christmas film originally broadcast on the Hallmark Channel in 2016. Growing up in a sports-loving family in the American South, Lily has dreams of becoming a ballerina. Her ultimate goal is to dance as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker. Her older sister, Beth, is her biggest supporter. She wins the 2003 American Ballet Invitational and is awarded a chance to perform with the New York Ballet. Her mother doesn't want her to go, but Beth convinces her mom otherwise. Lily meets Mark, who has the role of The Nutcracker Prince.
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The Nutcracker Suite (Tim Sparks album) The Nutcracker Suite is a recording by American guitarist Tim Sparks, released in 1993. It consists of both an adaptation for acoustic guitar of Tchaikovsky's suite from his ballet "The Nutcracker" and the Balkan Dreams Suite, a suite of songs based on melodies and ideas of Béla Bartók. Sparks won the 1993 National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship playing his solo guitar arrangement of Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite". A review of the album in "Classical Guitar Magazine" stated: "After listening to the CD, I must admit that Sparks catches the essence of the music in a wonderful
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Philharmonic (for "Bydgoszcz Music Festival"), Koszalin Philharmonic and foreign. It is also involved in tours. "Opera Nova Ballet" was founded in 1956, initially with 40 dancers, in majority graduated students from Bydgoszcz ballet music center. Between 1959 and 1989, the ballet ensemble had a training room in the Chamber Theatre, then in the Pomeranian Arts House. Since the 1990s, the ballet working room is located in the building of the Opera Nova. Ballet repertoire includes around 30 works. Since its creation, the ballet premiered 6 times in Poland for "The Nutcracker" (1958), "The King of the winds" () of Feliks
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FEI World Equestrian Games, "Hard Rock Ballet", The Nutcracker, "21st Century Ballet", Giselle "Ballet Under the Stars", "The Fabric of Dance", The Koln Concert, "The Nutcracker Up Close", "Nonsense!", "Hard Rock Ballet" The Nutcracker, Cinderella, Don Quixote (ballet), Coppélia, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, La fille mal gardée, Les Sylphides, Dracula, Flickers, Pulcinella Lexington Ballet Company The Lexington Ballet Company is a ballet company located in Lexington, Kentucky. The ballet was founded in 1974 by Nels Jorgenson, former dancer of Joffrey Ballet and granted status as a 501(c)(3) organization in 1975. The Ballet mission is "Inspire. Educate. Cultivate." Luis Dominguez
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and a ballet. The opera would be "Iolanta". For the ballet, Tchaikovsky would again join forces with Marius Petipa, with whom he had collaborated on "The Sleeping Beauty." The material Petipa chose was an adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King", by Alexandre Dumas called "The Story of a Nutcracker". The plot of Hoffmann's story (and Dumas' adaptation) was greatly simplified for the two-act ballet. Hoffmann's tale contains a long flashback story within its main plot titled "The Tale of the Hard Nut", which explains how the Prince was turned into the Nutcracker. This
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success of the Christensen version marked the first step in making productions of "The Nutcracker" annual Christmas season traditions all over the world – a phenomenon that did not really come to flower until the late 1960s. The Nutcracker (Willam Christensen) Tchaikovsky's now-classic ballet "The Nutcracker" received its first complete production in the U.S. on 24 December 1944, performed by the San Francisco Ballet. This production used the ballet's original plot and was choreographed by Willam Christensen, who danced the role of the Cavalier. Gisella Caccialanza, the wife of Lew Christensen, danced the rôle of the Sugar Plum Fairy. The
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Savannah Ballet Theatre Savannah Ballet Theatre is a not-for-profit dance company in Savannah, Georgia, founded in 1998 as Savannah Danse Theatre by Suzanne Braddy. Braddy founded the Islands Dance Academy on Wilmington Island, and has been teaching children from three years old to adult since 1988. Ten years later she started the Savannah Danse Theatre. The new company's first show was a full-length production of "The Nutcracker". The company was renamed Savannah Ballet Theatre in 2013 with the Islands Dance Academy becoming the Savannah Ballet Theatre School of Dance. "The Nutcracker" has since become known as "The Nutcracker in Savannah".
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by Georges Delerue and was commissioned by Danish television, later being adapted for the stage, making its premiere with Royal Danish Ballet on tour in Paris in 1964; Flindt returned to the Royal Danish Ballet as artistic director from 1966 to 1978. Other ballets he made on the Royal Danish Ballet include "Gala Variations" Music: Knudåge Riisager first performance was 05-03-1967, "Ballet Royal" Music: Knudåge Riisager first performance was 31-05-1967,"The Miraculous Mandarin" to Bartók (1967), "Swineherd" Music: Knudåge Riisager first performance was 11-03-1969"The Nutcracker" to Tchaikovsky in 1971, "Jeux" to Debussy in 1973 and "Dreamland", to a score by Herman
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Barbie in the Nutcracker Barbie in the Nutcracker is a 2001 American - Canadian direct-to-DVD computer-animated film directed by Owen Hurley. It was the first Barbie film since the 1987 series, "." It is also the first in the CGI second-generation Barbie film series, all of which feature the voice of Kelly Sheridan as the Barbie protagonist. The film is loosely adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann's "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and music based from Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker". The film sold more than 3.4million units on DVD by 2002, and grossed in total sales. The frame story
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by P.I. Tchaikovsky) "Alice in Wonderland" (choreography by Septime Webre, music by Matthew Pierce) "Ballet Director's Choice" (includes "The Angel of Buenos Aires" by Lorita Travaglia, "Wolfgang (for Webb)" by Dominic Walsh, "Light Rain" pas de deux by Gerald Arpino and "It's Not a Cry" pas de deux by Amy Seiwert) Colorado Ballet's 2014-2015 season opened on September 26, 2014. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (choreography by Christopher Wheeldon, music by Felix Mendelssohn) "Dracula" (choreography by Michael Pink, music by Philip Feeney) "The Nutcracker" (choreography after Marius Petipa, music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) "Ballet MasterWorks" (includes Concerto Barocco choreographed by George Balanchine,
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Ballet School offers year-round classical ballet training for youth and adults. Additional class offerings include barre classes, contemporary master classes, and sports conditioning. Lexington Ballet hosts a Music Art Dance Camp (MAD Camp) each summer. Nancy Dominguez trained at the Chicago City Ballet, under the direction of Ballerina Maria Tallchief. She danced professionally at State Ballet of Missouri, Atlanta Ballet, Ballet New England, and Dance Theatre of Harlem under Arthur Mitchell. Lexington Ballet Company presents four or five classical and neoclassical productions each year in the central Kentucky area. "New Works & Other Voices", The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, The Tales
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convoluted, amateurish and tedious," and panned it for lacking any trace of ballet, unlike several previous versions of "The Nutcracker". "Entertainment Weekly" reviewer Lisa Schwarzbaum gave it its only positive review from a professional film critic, awarding it a B+ and remarking "Attention, university film clubs: Here's your cult-ready midnight-movie programming." The Nutcracker in 3D The Nutcracker in 3D (released on DVD as The Nutcracker: The Untold Story) is a 2009 British-Hungarian 3D Christmas musical fantasy film adapted from the ballet "The Nutcracker", directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. It stars Elle Fanning, Nathan Lane, and John Turturro with Charles Rowe and
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be produced in its entirety in this country until 1944. Perhaps choreographers will make up for lost time from now on." The company was the first in the U.S. to make the ballet an annual tradition, and for ten years, the only company in the United States performing the complete ballet, until George Balanchine's production opened in New York in 1954. (Annual productions of the San Francisco Ballet "Nutcracker" began in 1949.) The San Francisco Ballet performs "The Nutcracker" annually to this day, though not necessarily with Christensen's choreography (their most recent version is choreographed by Helgi Tomasson). The stage
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in Ohio, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and at New York City’s Dance Festival in 1975. "The Nutcracker" was premiered in 1974 at Music Hall. Frisch’s Restaurants from Cincinnati sponsored the performances and have continued to do so. Today "Frisch’s presents: The Nutcracker" is a Cincinnati tradition. The Nutcracker was choreographed by Moscelyne Larkin, Roman Jasinski and Frederic Franklin. This led to Franklin's long tenure as Resident Choreographer and the period of his being Interim Director. Beginning in 1978, regular repertoire performances were also held at Music Hall, and the schedule expanded from three series to five by 1980. The
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Arts School, he was nominated for the New Jersey Theater Alliance's NJACT Perry Award for Best Male Ensemble actor in a musical for his role in the Montclair Operetta Club's Children of Eden. Gregori also attended the School of American Ballet in Lincoln Center from the years 2001-2007. During his term with the School of American Ballet he performed in various shows with the New York City Ballet, including Harlequinade, Swan Lake, Vienna Waltzes, Sleeping Beauty and George Balanchine The Nutcracker. While in production with George Balanchine The Nutcracker, he was featured in the film, "The Nutcracker Family : Behind
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piece to be created by a symphonic composer. Following the initiative of Tchaikovsky, ballet composers were no longer writing simple, easily danceable pieces. The focus of a ballet was no longer solely the dance; the compositions behind the dances began to take an equal prevalence. In the late 19th century, Marius Petipa, French ballet choreographer and dancer, worked with composers such as Cesare Pugni to create ballet masterpieces that boasted both complex dance and complex music. Petipa worked with Tchaikovsky as well, whether through collaboration with Tchaikovsky on his work "The Sleeping Beauty" and "The Nutcracker", or indirectly through revision
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of the movements from "The Nutcracker" by the pianist and composer Percy Grainger. The pianist and conductor Mikhail Pletnev adapted some of the music into a virtuosic concert suite for piano solo: Many recordings have been made since 1909 of the "Nutcracker Suite", which made its initial appearance on disc that year in what is now historically considered the first record album. This recording was conducted by Herman Finck and featured the London Palace Orchestra. But it was not until the LP album was developed that recordings of the complete ballet began to be made. Because of the ballet's approximate
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staging of "The Nutcracker" in 1954. Beginning in the 1960s, the tradition of performing the complete ballet at Christmas eventually spread to the rest of the United States. Since Gorsky, Vainonen and Balanchine's productions, many other choreographers have made their own versions. Some institute the changes made by Gorsky and Vainonen while others, like Balanchine, utilize the original libretto. Some notable productions include those by Rudolf Nureyev for the Royal Ballet, Yuri Grigorovich for the Bolshoi Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov for the American Ballet Theatre, Kent Stowell for Pacific Northwest Ballet starting in 1983, and Peter Wright for the Royal Ballet
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in Paris and the Royal Swedish Ballet Company before joining the Finnish National Ballet. Horvath became a soloist at the Royal Swedish Ballet at the age of twenty. While at the Royal Swedish Ballet, Horvath performed lead roles in "The Nutcracker", "Cinderella", "Giselle", and "Sleeping Beauty". Horvath was featured on the cover of "Sports Today Magazine" while a soloist with the Swedish ballet. After a career in Sweden, Horvath went on to dance for the English National Ballet in 1998, the Hamburg Ballet, and the Finnish National Ballet, performing soloist roles in Nureyev’s The Nutcracker, Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet, Makarova’s
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ballet and was featured in the June edition of Dance Europe magazine . Her company is now Ireland's largest ballet training schools and performs -The Nutcracker, Vivaldi Seasons, Giselle and La Sylphide, Monica Loughman Elite Ballet is committed to staging classical main scale ballet throughout Ireland and nurturing a new generation of dancers, choreographers and audiences. In a milestone for her, the Irish Arts Council funded a tour of The Nutcracker to theatres throughout Ireland in 2013.Monica currently trains dancers for a career in ballet. Most recently for young girls have been accepted for an apprenticeship with Russian Ballet Theatre
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Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" with choreography by Glen Tetley, George Balanchine's "Theme and Variations" with music by P.I. Tchaikovsky, and a new work by Val Caniparoli of San Francisco Ballet "Light/The Holocaust and Humanity Project" (choreography by Stephen Mills of Ballet Austin) "Swan Lake" (choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) "The Nutcracker" (music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) "Peter Pan" (choreography by Michael Pink, music by Philip Feeney) "Tribute" (choreography by Emery LeCrone, Jodie Gates and Amy Seiwert) "Anniversary Triple Bill" (Feast of the Gods - choreography by Edwaard Liang, “…smile with my heart” - choreography
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The Nutcracker (Willam Christensen) Tchaikovsky's now-classic ballet "The Nutcracker" received its first complete production in the U.S. on 24 December 1944, performed by the San Francisco Ballet. This production used the ballet's original plot and was choreographed by Willam Christensen, who danced the role of the Cavalier. Gisella Caccialanza, the wife of Lew Christensen, danced the rôle of the Sugar Plum Fairy. The staging was a huge success and one critic wrote: "We can't understand why a vehicle of such fantastic beauty and originality could be produced in Europe in 1892 with signal success [a factually erroneous claim] and never
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that time). DeAngelo created several works for Ballet de Monterrey, including "Mademoiselle de M", a 35-minute work based on Theophile's "Mademoiselle de Maupin" with music by Franz Liszt and Enigma; "Le Papillon", to music of Jacques Offenbach; and a re-staging of "The Nutcracker". In 2003, DeAngelo collaborated with composer Conni Ellisor to bring the Bell Witch legend to life in "The Bell Witch" for Nashville Ballet, with an original score by Ellisor and 3-D scenic design by Gerald Marks. For this she was nominated for a 'Benois de la Danse" Award and a segment of the ballet was performed at
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Cesare Pugni Cesare Pugni () (; 31 May 1802–) born in Genoa, was an Italian composer of ballet music, a pianist and a violinist. In his early career he composed operas, symphonies, and various other forms of orchestral music. Pugni is most noted for the ballets he composed for Her Majesty's Theatre in London (1843–1850), and for the Imperial Theatres in St. Petersburg, Russia (1850–1870). The majority of his ballet music was composed for the works of the ballet master Jules Perrot, who mounted nearly every one of his ballets to scores by Pugni. In 1850 Perrot departed London for
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artistic focuses lies on the revision of evening-length narrative ballets such as "The Nutcracker" (1971), "Illusions - like Swan Lake" (1976), "A Cinderella’s Story" (1992), "Sylvia" (1997), which was originally created for the ballet of the Paris Opera, and "Giselle" (2000). The repertoire of The Hamburg Ballet also includes a variety of ballets choreographed to orchestral music. Of special importance is John Neumeier’s "Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler" (1975). Taken together with other ballets set to the music by Mahler, Neumeier's works form a cycle. In addition, John Neumeier has created ballets to Johann Sebastian Bach's "Saint Matthew Passion" (1980)
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State Youth Theatre, the Shota Rustavli Georgian Theater, a Russian illusionist Igor Kio for his show in Tbilisi and the Georgian National team of Rhythmic gymnastics. He also choreographed pieces for ice skaters and worked with Tommy Steenberg, Rachel Parsons , Michael Parsons, Lorraine McNamara and Quinn Carpenter. Djouloukhadze choreographed one-act ballets in neoclassical style ‘Reflections’ (music by Sergei Prokofiev) and ‘Dancing with Verdi’(music by Giuseppe Verdi), pieces in academic character style -‘Jota Aragonesa’ (music by Mikhail Glinka), ‘Tarantella’ (music by Louis Gottschalk), ‘Scheherazade’ (music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He also staged The Nutcracker and ballet showcases for the Mississippi Ballet
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again for "Make Mine Music" (1946), in which they give a charming performance in the "Two Silhouettes" sequence. As a choreographer, Lichine's first movie was "Spring Night" (1935), a remarkable short film in which he dances with Nana Gollner, but the ballet sequences for Cyd Charisse in "The Unfinished Dance" (1947) are generally considered his best work for the movie camera. In 1955, Lichine was invited by Edouard Borovansky to return to Australia to stage a full length Nutcracker for the Borovansky Ballet for its 1955-1956 season. Lichine had first visited Australia with the Covent Garden Russian Ballet (Original Ballet
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It offers classes from creative movement, ages three and four, all the way to pre-professional. The academy students are given the opportunity to perform in the company production The Nutcracker, performed by Ballet Austin during the month of December for more than 53 years. Ballet Austin's Nutcracker is the longest running in the state of Texas. Ballet Austin's apprentice company, Ballet Austin II, offers an opportunity for post-high school, advanced dancers to hone their skills. Established in 1999 by associate artistic director Michelle Martin, Ballet Austin II is made up of 10 emerging artists. Founded in 2007, the Butler Center
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professional ballerina from Germany, in the 1950s. Heuser taught ballet at the University of Texas at El Paso for 47 years and founded the city's first professional ballet company, firstly known as Texas Western Civic Ballet and eventually as "Ballet El Paso". The company dissipated due to financial trouble in 1997 and Heuser retired from UTEP soon after. The "El Paso Youth Ballet" was founded in 2009 by Heuser's previous student, Marta Katz, following Heuser's departure from the university. With students from the youth ballet, Heuser staged her last Nutcracker in 2006. The youth company continues to perform the Nutcracker
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offers ballet fundamentals, beginning ballet, intermediate ballet, and advanced professional ballet classes. Making it possible for somebody at any level to take class. Minnesota Dance Theatre The Minnesota Dance Theatre (MDT) dance company and school in Minneapolis, Minnesota was founded by Loyce Houlton in 1962 as the Contemporary Dance Playhouse. It was renamed the Minnesota Dance Theatre in 1969. Lise Houlton succeeded her mother as artistic director in 1995. Each holiday season MDT presents the ballet "Loyce Houlton's Nutcracker Fantasy" based on Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. Ballet Arts Minnesota and the company's school joined in 2006 to become The Dance Institute.
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Nina Timofeeva Nina Vladimirovna Timofeeva (; 11 June 1935 – 3 November 2014) was a Russian ballet dancer. Timofeeva was born in Leningrad and graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 1953. She made her theatrical debut as a student in 1951, as Masha in Tchaikovsky’s "The Nutcracker". From 1953 to 1956 she was a soloist with the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, and after that became a soloist with the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. Her major roles included P Timofeeva was married to composer Kirill Molchanov (1922–1982) who wrote music for some of her ballets. In 1980
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professional company. Colorado Ballet's 2018-2019 season will open on October 5, 2018. "Sleeping Beauty" (choreography by Marius Petipa, music by P. I. Tchaikovsky) "The Nutcracker" (choreography by Marius Petipa, music by P. I. Tchaikovsky) "The Wizard of Oz" (choreography by Septime Webre, music by Matthew Pierce) "Tour de Force" (collaborative production with choreography by artistic staff members of Colorado Ballet, Garrett Ammon of Wonderbound, and Cleo Parker Robinson of Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble) "Ballet MasterWorks: Carmina Burana" (choreography by Fernand Nault, music by Carl Orff) Colorado Ballet's 2017-2018 season opened on October 6, 2017. "Dracula" (choreography by Michael Pink,
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The Nutcracker in 3D The Nutcracker in 3D (released on DVD as The Nutcracker: The Untold Story) is a 2009 British-Hungarian 3D Christmas musical fantasy film adapted from the ballet "The Nutcracker", directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. It stars Elle Fanning, Nathan Lane, and John Turturro with Charles Rowe and Shirley Henderson as the Nutcracker. It was universally panned by critics upon its release, and was a box office bomb, losing the studio $81 million. Mary's (Elle Fanning) seemingly dull Christmas is suddenly filled with excitement and adventure following the arrival of her Uncle Albert (Nathan Lane), who gives her a
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Ivanov. With regard to who was ultimately responsible for the choreography for "The Nutcracker", many sources contradict one another. Some claim either that Petipa was responsible for staging the entire ballet or that he merely supervised Ivanov's progress. "The Nutcracker" premiered on a double bill with Tchaikovsky's opera "Iolanta" at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre. Many critics of the day considered the work to not even be a ballet at all, with far too much emphasis on spectacle rather than drama, something made all the more unsuccessful since the ballerina's role was reduced to a mere "Grand Pas de deux" in
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Headquarters Hall, the Madeleine Church Hall in Paris, Bedřich Smetana Hall in Prague, Cercle Royal Gaulois in Brussels, etc. Has recorded more than 15 CDs with works of Western European, Russian, Ukrainian composers (including full music for Tchaikovsky's ballet «Swan Lake», «Nutcracker» and others). Author of monographs – «Music and Philosophy: Schopenhauer, Wagner, Nietzsche», «The Conductor's Creative Work: the Dimensions of Aesthetics and Art History» and a manual for students in higher education. Among connoisseurs of classical music Herman Makarenko is well known as the Ukrainian conductor - philosopher, who gave a new lease of classical music from different eras
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(Brooklyn Academy of Music), "The Magic Flute" (Florence), "Orfeo ed Euridice" (Vienna and Zurich), and Benjamin Britten's Chamber opera "The Turn of the Screw" (Copenhagen), the Minnesota Opera's The Grapes of Wrath and the Metropolitan Opera's production of the opera Werther, by Jules Massenet. In 1995, she began designing projections for ballet, notably the American Ballet Theatre's "Othello", the San Francisco Ballet production of "The Nutcracker", Alexei Ratmansky's "Anna Karenina" for the Mariinsky Ballet and the New York City Ballet's production of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition Harrington continued to expand her projections designing experience on various concerts and
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and Juliet" (1994); "Giselle" (1999); "Don Quixote", co-staged with former principal dancer and current choreographer in residence Yuri Possokhov (2003); and "Nutcracker" (2004). Tomasson's "Nutcracker", set in San Francisco during the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition, is notable for being the only uniquely San Francisco "Nutcracker". It features sets (including "a backdrop of San Francisco's Victorian houses known as 'painted ladies) and costumes created by, respectively, Michael Yeargan and Martin Pakledinaz, both repeat Tony Award-winning designers. Upon its premiere, "The New York Times" called Tomasson's "Nutcracker" "striking, elegant and beautiful". Today, San Francisco Ballet presents approximately 100 performances each year.
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that if he conducted the orchestra he would ruin his score, and so Drigo, still ill, consented to conduct the rehearsal. The shy and reserved Tchaikovsky was ever after grateful to Drigo for his exceptional conducting, particularly after the premiere on . Drigo eventually conducted nearly 300 performances of "The Sleeping Beauty" at the Mariinsky Theatre. Two years later Drigo conducted the premiere of Tchaikovsky's next work, "The Nutcracker", on . Drigo composed another score for the annual graduation performance of the Imperial Ballet school in 1893. This was the one-act ballet "La Flûte magique" ("The Magic Flute"), which told
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touring company in 1995 with a performance in San Salvador, El Salvador. Since then the Ballet regularly performs their Nutcracker production in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The Minnesota Ballet also brings its productions to other cities in Minnesota and the surrounding region. Classes range from Pre-Ballet through Ballet VII and pre-professional training; pointe, jazz, modern and tap are also offered. Additionally the School offers creative movement classes to accommodate those with special needs. The School offers annual opportunities for students to audition and perform in The Nutcracker with the professional company. The ballet company has a community outreach program designed to
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and Europe. As a freelance Opera and Ballet conductor he has performed widely in Europe and the United States, and as conductor at English National Ballet he led premieres of "Swan Lake", "The Nutcracker", "Coppelia", "Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)", "Giselle", "Alice in Wonderland" (Tchaikovsky) and "Les Sylphides", amongst others. He was Music Director for the original 1997 stage production of "The Fix" (Dir. Sam Mendes) at the Donmar Warehouse, London. Between 2000 and 2005 Welford was Music Supervisor and Assistant Music Producer of Disney's "The Lion King" on Broadway (Dir. Julie Taymor) and for eleven subsequent new productions worldwide, during
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Christensen are the closest thing the United States has to a European-style "ballet dynasty". Christensen was raised in Brigham City, Utah and was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Willam Christensen Willam Farr Christensen (August 27, 1902 – October 14, 2001) was an American ballet dancer, choreographer and founder of the San Francisco Ballet and Ballet West in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is known for bringing the complete version of the Russian ballet "The Nutcracker" to the United States, as well as staging the first American performances of "Swan Lake" and "Coppélia". Christensen's "Nutcracker"
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Willam Christensen Willam Farr Christensen (August 27, 1902 – October 14, 2001) was an American ballet dancer, choreographer and founder of the San Francisco Ballet and Ballet West in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is known for bringing the complete version of the Russian ballet "The Nutcracker" to the United States, as well as staging the first American performances of "Swan Lake" and "Coppélia". Christensen's "Nutcracker" was first staged in 1944 in San Francisco, where the ballet remains an annual tradition, though the production now staged there is not necessarily the Christensen version. Christensen is often credited with helping to
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Santa Fe. The company moved to its new location in August 2014. In 1961, Lillian Covillo and Freidann Parker established Colorado Concert Ballet to showcase talented students they had been teaching at their ballet school. Their first production, "The Nutcracker", played to sold-out houses in Denver's Bonfils Theatre. By 1968, the Company hit the road for its first tour of the state. By 1976, Colorado Concert Ballet produced 33 performances of The Nutcracker and three other productions that season. By October of that year, Colorado Concert ballet achieved full professional status with a total roster of eight professional dancers. Two
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including Spirit Walk, the Nutcracker Tea and "The Nutcracker". California Riverside Ballet created The Academy Program in June 2013 to offer affordable and free ballet training to students in low income areas. 1969 Founded in Riverside, CA. Split into two different ballet schools both in Riverside, Riverside Ballet Arts, under Glenda Carhart, and California Riverside Ballet. California Riverside Ballet California Riverside Ballet is a ballet company formerly headquartered in Riverside, California, United States, in Riverside's historic Aurea Vista Hotel, city landmark number 84. The company was founded in 1969, and operates as a non-profit organization, with support from the city
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The Seasons (ballet) The Seasons (, "Vremena goda"; also ) is an allegorical ballet in one act, four scenes, by the choreographer Marius Petipa, with music by Alexander Glazunov, his Op. 67. The work was composed in 1899 and first performed by the Imperial Ballet in 1900 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The score for Marius Petipa's "Les Saisons" ("The Seasons") was originally intended to have been composed by the Italian composer and conductor Riccardo Drigo, who was Glazunov's colleague and close friend. Since 1886, Drigo held the posts of director of music and "chef d’orchestre" to the Ballet of the
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in Australia, Vollmar danced leading roles in Giselle, Les Sylphides, The Nutcracker and several ballets restaged from the Ballets Russes repertoire, including Petrushka. Vollmar returned to the San Francisco Ballet in 1956, and danced with the company until 1972, retiring after the Nutcracker season in 1972. After retiring as a dancer, Vollmar served as a teacher and choreographer for several ballet companies. She was a teacher at the San Francisco Ballet School from 1985 to 2005. Jocelyn Vollmar Jocelyn Vollmar (1925 – July 13, 2018) was an American ballerina, known for her career with the San Francisco Ballet. Vollmar was
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weekly ballet video podcast on their own YouTube channel. The Anaheim Ballet also presents the Anaheim International Dance Festival with Chapman University, in association with Youth America Grand Prix. Anaheim Ballet offers classes for students ages 3–adults who are interested in pursuing a career in ballet, or merely looking for recreational training. The school stages an annual Spring Concert, and Anaheim Ballet annually performs the holiday ballet The Nutcracker. Students of Anaheim Ballet School have competed in the finals of the Youth America Grand Prix competition since its founding; the competition is the world's largest international student dance competition. Anaheim
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choreographer Benjamin Millepied's ballet, "Without", which uses the music of Frédéric Chopin. On July 29, 2011, she made her debut in Herman von Løvenskjold's "La Sylphide". Her noted performance in Balanchine's "Jewels" can be seen in an October 2011 DVD release of the Mariinsky Ballet's production. On DVD she can also be seen as Masha in the Chemiakin "Nutcracker" and in her two roles in "Swan Lake". In June 2012, Ms. Golub appeared as Hermia in the premiere of the Mariinsky Ballet production of George Balanchine's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", a ballet based on Shakespeare's play with music by Felix
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Jelena Rozga Jelena Rozga (born 23 August 1977) is a Croatian pop singer. She is also a music icon in the Balkans. Jelena Rozga was born in Split, Croatia. In childhood, Rozga became a ballet dancer, and competed in various Yugoslav competitions. She later joined the ballet ensemble of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, performing in various localized productions of "Swan Lake", "Sleeping Beauty", "Nutcracker", etc. She left her ballet career when she was given an opportunity to become a member of Magazin, a popular Croatian pop band at the time. 1996–2006: Magazin Jelena started her music career in
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Enchantress" (1886) and "The Queen of Spades" (1890). In 1887 Vsevolozhsky commissioned Tchaikovsky to score music for Marius Petipa's "The Sleeping Beauty", a ballet which would prove to be one of both Tchaikovsky and Petipa's greatest masterworks. The first performance on 15 January 1890 by the Imperial Ballet was a great success and soon Vsevolozhsky commissioned a second score for a ballet and an opera from the composer, "The Nutcracker" and "Iolanthe", which premiered together on a double bill on 6 December 1892. Prior to commissioning "The Sleeping Beauty", Vsevolozhsky had considered reviving one act of "Swan Lake" for the
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or all of December 24 as well. A few stations switch to all-Christmas music for the entire season (some beginning as early as mid-November); in Detroit, 100.3 WNIC in 2005 started Christmas music day and night on midnight of October 31 because programmers believed that at least some listeners who are attracted by the Christmas music will remain loyal listeners when the station reverts to its standard format on Boxing Day. Radio stations also broadcast traditional Western art music, such as the "Hallelujah" chorus from Handel's "Messiah". Among other pieces inspired by Christmas are Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker" and the
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the "Trepak" and the "Waltz of the Flowers". The Nutcracker (Balanchine) Choreographer George Balanchine's production of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker has become the most famous stage production of the ballet performed in the U.S. (Mikhail Baryshnikov's production is the most famous television version, although it too originated onstage.) It uses the plot of the Alexandre Dumas, "père", version of E.T.A. Hoffmann's tale, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (1816). Its premiere took place on February 2, 1954, at City Center, New York, with costumes by Karinska and sets by Horace Armistead. It has been staged in New York every year
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The Nutcracker (Balanchine) Choreographer George Balanchine's production of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker has become the most famous stage production of the ballet performed in the U.S. (Mikhail Baryshnikov's production is the most famous television version, although it too originated onstage.) It uses the plot of the Alexandre Dumas, "père", version of E.T.A. Hoffmann's tale, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (1816). Its premiere took place on February 2, 1954, at City Center, New York, with costumes by Karinska and sets by Horace Armistead. It has been staged in New York every year since 1954, and many other productions throughout the
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a fun town." Arlene Wagner is regarded as a "national authority" on the subject of nutcrackers. Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum is a museum dedicated to nutcrackers, located in Leavenworth, Washington. Founded by Arlene Wagner and her husband George in 1995, the museum housed over 6,000 nutcrackers in 2010. Wagner studied ballet under Alexandra Danilova, and subsequently became a ballet instructor. She taught multiple productions of "The Nutcracker", and became enamored of nutcrackers. She began collecting them during the 1960s. The museum's building is of a Bavarian style and is of an area of 3,000 square feet; it is
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Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum is a museum dedicated to nutcrackers, located in Leavenworth, Washington. Founded by Arlene Wagner and her husband George in 1995, the museum housed over 6,000 nutcrackers in 2010. Wagner studied ballet under Alexandra Danilova, and subsequently became a ballet instructor. She taught multiple productions of "The Nutcracker", and became enamored of nutcrackers. She began collecting them during the 1960s. The museum's building is of a Bavarian style and is of an area of 3,000 square feet; it is situated above Wagner's shop Nussknacker Haus, which sells nutcrackers. Wagner came to be known as "the
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important pioneering companies in the arts in Second Life. In addition, Ballet Pixelle has been used to extend and explore set design. Ballet Pixelle performs repertory from September through June at the Ballet Pixelle Theatre in Second Life. In addition, the company presents Saarinen's version of the Nutcracker, "The Nut", or the essence of The Nutcracker, every December also in Second Life. A secondary company, Ballet Pixelle Too (created in 2016), performs more experimental, eclectic works during the Summer season. Ballet Pixelle frequently tours to other locations in the virtual world, such as the Royal Opera, the Rose Theatre, and
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65", which was very well received and elicited encouragement for him to continue choreographing. In 1983, his "Ballet d'Isoline", was taken into the repertory of the New York City Ballet. Following his retirement from New York City Ballet in 1985, Tomasson joined the San Francisco Ballet as artistic director. During his time with the company, he has staged many full-length ballets, including "Swan Lake" in 1988, "The Sleeping Beauty" in 1990, "Romeo and Juliet" in 1994, "Giselle" in 1999, "Don Quixote" (in collaboration with principal dancer Yuri Possokhov) in 2003, and "Nutcracker" in 2004. Tomasson’s "Nutcracker" is notable for being
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a principal dancer in 1988. He partnered with many renowned ballerinas such as Ekaterina Maximova, Carla Fracci, Karen Kain, Veronica Tennant, Alessandra Ferri, Susan Jaffe and Evelyn Hart. He has also performed with such companies as La Scala Theatre Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and Stuttgart Ballet. Harrington's classical roles include Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet", Basilio in "Don Quixote", Kastchei in "The Firebird", Eugene Onegin in "Onegin", and Apollo in Balanchine's "Apollo". James Kudelka created several roles for Harrington, including Rothbart in "Swan Lake" (1999), Peter/The Nutcracker in "The Nutcracker" (1995), and the central role in "The
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in "Romeo and Juliet", Benno in "Swan Lake", He in "My Brother, My Sisters", Wilfred in "Giselle", Rakitin in "A Month in the Country" and Mouse King in "The Nutcracker". He appeared as a dancer in Queen's music video for "I Want to Break Free" in 1984, performing in a pastiche of the ballet "L'après-midi d'un faune". However, his ballet career ended at the age of 27 due to a broken toe and torn ligament. He had a prominent (non dancing) music video role several years later when he played the male lead in the video for Natalie Imbruglia's debut
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this instrument in a work for full symphony orchestra. He first used it in his symphonic poem "The Voyevoda", Op. posth. 78, premiered in November 1891. The following year, he used the celesta in passages in his ballet "The Nutcracker" (Op. 71, 1892), most notably in the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy", which also appears in the derived "Nutcracker Suite", Op. 71a. However, Ernest Chausson preceded Tchaikovsky by employing the celesta in December 1888 in his incidental music, written for a small orchestra, for "La tempête" (a French translation by Maurice Bouchor of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest"). The celesta
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Reisinger of the requirements for each dance. However, unlike the instructions for the scores of "The Sleeping Beauty" and "The Nutcracker", no written instruction is known to have survived. From around the time of the turn of the 19th century until the beginning of the 1890s, scores for ballets were almost always written by composers known as "specialists," who were highly skilled at scoring the light, decorative, melodious, and rhythmically clear music that was at that time in vogue for ballet. Tchaikovsky studied the music of "specialists" such as the Italian Cesare Pugni and the Austrian Ludwig Minkus, before setting
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ballet-master for the Russian Imperial ballet and created many celebrated ballets, including "The Sleeping Beauty", "La Bayadère" and "The Nutcracker". The Champs-Élysées was redeveloped in the 1830s with public gardens at either end, and became a popular place for Parisians to promenade. It was soon lined with restaurants, cafes-chantants. and pleasure gardens where outdoor concerts and balls were held. The Café Turc opened a garden with a series of concert-promenades in the spring of 1833, which alternated symphonic music with quadrilles and airs for dancing. The 17-year-old jacques Offenbach wrote his first compositions for the dance orchestra at the Café
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be a hallmark of the annual performance of Graham Lustig’s "The Nutcracker" at the Paramount Theatre. Since his appointment as Artistic Director of Oakland Ballet Company in 2010, Lustig has presented five seasons of his Nutcracker and three spring repertory productions, Forwards! (2011), Diaghilev Imagery (2013), and Oakland-esque (2014), with a focus on commissioned works by esteemed Bay Area choreographers. Lustig’s ballet Infinitum was included in the West Wave Dance Festival (2011) and he initiated Oakland Ballet Company’s annual summer Ballet Boot Camp, a two-week dance and choreography workshop now in its fifth year, as well as ongoing ballet training
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suite became instantly popular, with almost every number encored at its premiere, while the complete ballet did not begin to achieve its great popularity until after the George Balanchine staging became a hit in New York City. The suite became very popular on the concert stage, and was excerpted in Disney's "Fantasia", with everything omitted prior to Sugar Plum Fairies. "The Nutcracker Suite" should not be mistaken for the complete ballet. The outline below represents the selection and sequence of the "Nutcracker Suite" culled by the composer. The "Paraphrase on Tchaikovsky’s Flower Waltz" is a successful piano arrangement from one
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El Paso. The company dissipated due to financial trouble in 1997 and Heuser retired from UTEP soon after. The El Paso Youth Ballet was founded in 2009 by Heuser's previous student, Marta Katz, following Heuser's departure from the university. With students from the youth ballet, Heuser staged her last Nutcracker in 2006. The youth company continues to perform the Nutcracker and other pre-professional pieces in and around the El Paso area. The company provides the only platform for young ballet dancers to train and perform at such a level within the city since the folding of Ballet El Paso. El
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ballet "Façade". After 16 years with the company, Bennett retired from ballet in 2015 at the age of 34. Her final performances were part of Ballet West's "Innovations 2015" season. Christiana Bennett Christiana Bennett is a former ballet dancer, who was the principal female dancer for the Ballet West company, and was featured on The CW reality television series "Breaking Pointe". She said she was inspired to take up ballet after watching "The Nutcracker" on television when she was two years old. She recalls that she announced to her parents that evening that she was going to become a ballet
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Carmen, Die Fledermaus, Don Pasquale, Madama Butterfly, The Magic Flute, The Medium, Merrily We Roll Along, The Nutcracker, The Pirates of Penzance, " and "Tosca" with such companies as the Boston Academy of Music, Commonwealth Opera, Ocean State Lyric Opera, Opera Providence, Connecticut Concert Ballet, Festival Ballet of Rhode Island and the Wisconsin Dance Ensemble. He has also guest conducted numerous choirs, including the Providence Singers, Hampshire Choral Society and Boston's Masterworks Chorale. Phillips's conducting honors include 1st Prize in the Wiener Meisterkurse Conductors Course and eight ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music, including 1st prize with the
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and fall and is highly selective. Having previously conducted ballet repertory, Gershkovitch was approached in 1934 by Willam Christensen of the Portland Creative Theatre and School of Music, Drama, and Dance to collaborate. Gershkovitch suggested that the Portland Junior Symphony and the ballet studio perform portions of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" as part of Portland's annual Rose Festival. 5,000 spectators attended the Rose Queen coronation ceremony at Civic Auditorium to witness the production, which featured 100 ballerinas and dancers. The production was deemed a success for all involved and established Christensen as "Portland's leading ballet teacher". Gershkovitch and Christensen collaborated at
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the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and was conductor and musical director of Sadler's Wells Ballet from 1949 to 1958, working closely with Sir Frederick Ashton on several ballets. From 1958 to 1989, he served as music director of the New York City Ballet, where he worked extensively with choreographer George Balanchine. For many years he conducted the New York City Ballet's annual production of "The Nutcracker", a task he repeated in the 1958 US telecast of the ballet. His many recordings include: He died in his birthplace in 1991, aged 78. A small memorial plaque to him may be found
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first Nutcracker production for the Australian Ballet at the Sydney Opera House in 1981. The following year, he choreographed the Australian Ballet's first commissioned Nutcracker, premiered at the Palais Theatre on October 8, 1982. He also staged other productions: Swan Lake and Don Quixote for National Ballet of Chile; and for New Jersey Ballet. Kozlov had an opportunity to star in the national previews of the Broadway revival of Roger & Hart’s On Your Toes in 1983. He was then invited by Balanchine to become New York City Ballet's principal dancer. He was with NYCB for eleven years with his
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