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| | Nutcracker History |
 | | Nutcracker World Premiere was at the Maryinsky Theater in St Petersbury, Russia with choreography by Petipa/Ivanov, music by Tchaikovsky and decor by Botcharov.. | | | Early 1892: Tchaikovsky begins work on the music for the Nutcracker. | | | This eight-part concert version of the ballet music was a success. |
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http://www.balletminnesota.org/Nuthtml/NutFirst.html
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| | Libretto |
| | In the final analysis, it is the music that has truly given the Nutcracker a life of its own. | | | An abbreviated version, the Nutcracker Suite, is one of the most recorded selections in classical repertoire. | | | Clara has awakened and longing for her Nutcracker comes back to the living room. |
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http://www.nutcrackerballet.com/libretto.html
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| | Milwaukee Ballet Online |
| | Marie is distressed to see the Nutcracker doll broken and defeated, but Drosselmeyer brings the doll back to life, transforming him into his nephew Karl. | | | The drawing room is dark and still as Clara enters to find her Nutcracker doll. | | | Fritz returns to steal the doll and as Clara tries to rescue the doll, it is broken. |
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http://www.milwaukeeballet.org/Nutcracker.html
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| | Nutcracker History |
| | In The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky draws many of his melodies from existing music. | | | After the squeaking, 8 bars of accelerating music ending in a chord."The music debuted as The Nutcracker Suite, eight sections of the complete ballet at a performance of the Russian Musical Society in St. Petersburg in March 19, 1892. | | | Balanchine had danced in The Nutcracker at the Maryinsky Theater in a variety of roles ranging from child prince to Mouse King and Trepak. |
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http://www.balletmet.org/Notes/NutHist.html
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| | The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: PNB's "Nutcracker": Pure joy, wonder forever frozen in time |
| | Subsequently there's something about those first lilting notes of Tchaikovsky's score that acts as a tuneful time machine; like Proust's madelines, it takes us happily back in our memories, to a fantasy Christmas Eve where the snowflakes fall like tiny diamonds in a picture-perfect snowglobe. | | | PNB's "Nutcracker": Pure joy, wonder forever frozen in time | | | The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: PNB's "Nutcracker": Pure joy, wonder forever frozen in time |
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2002652128_nutcracker29.html
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| | Kids Domain - The Nutcracker - Story and Music |
| | You can hear a Real Audio clips from "The Narada Nutcracker" of these songs: | | | Visit Our Music Index for information on programs and plug-ins needed to play the music.... | | | On Christmas morning, Clara wakes under the tree holding her nutcracker doll. |
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http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/xmas/music1/nutcracker.html
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| | FOOTNOTES - The Nutcracker |
| | And also by listening, listening, listening, I opened myself up to newness, because in fact, I'd hear things for the first time, and I'd be able to respond physically. | | | "The music alone, the Tchaikovsky music in the Nutcracker, is worth the price of admission. | | | I mean, it's a wonderful piece of work. |
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http://www.soundventure.com/web/footnotes/episode6.html
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| | Amazon.com: Nutcracker: The Music Game: Software |
| | The classic fable of the toys that came to life and fell in love is brought to you in stunning color and charming animation, with eductaional content that teaches people of all ages to understand and appreciate music. | | | The program features a multitude of innovative musical games, puzzles, and riddles, as well as an animated encyclopedia of musical instruments, an extensive listening room, Tchaikovsky's biography, the Nutcracker story, the history of the Nutcracker ballet, music trivia, and more. | | | This holiday-classic title gives children an outlet for exploring their own appreciation of music, while sharpening their listening and problem-solving skills and improving understanding of the basic concepts of music. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000DIVZC
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| | The Nutcracker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The outline below is not the only one used for the Nutcracker suite, but it is one of the most common, and was culled by the composer. | | | When the clock strikes midnight, Clara hears the sound of mice. | | | Alexandre Dumas' adaptation of the story was set to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (after the libretto of Marius Petipa) and has become the most popular ballet performed around Christmas time. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nutcracker
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| | Boston Ballet's 'Nutcracker' flies high - The Boston Globe |
| | Still, in the end, this ''Nutcracker" is mesmerizing and musical. | | | Sure there's pomp and circumstance -- a flying hot-air balloon that's foreshadowed on the opening scrim, a sleigh pulled by mincing reindeer, a Battle of the Toy Soldiers and Mice that takes place in a huge distorted version of the Silberhaus living room. | | | For his part, Plotnikov, who transforms Clara's toy nutcracker into a handsome cavalier (the lush Roman Rykine) with a fiery snap, may gesture more than he steps, but he does so with such strong intention that you hear music in his movement. |
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http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2005/12/02/boston_ballets_nutcracker_flies_high?p1=MEWell_Pos5
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| | The Shreveport Times |
| | We can read E. Hoffmann's Nutcracker and the King of Mice, listen to a recording of Tchaikovsky's music, rent Fantasia, check out an illustrated children's book from the library or travel to New York to see the George Balanchine version performed by the New York City Ballet. | | | However it's told, this story always is fantasy; and fantasy only can exist in a world where we feel free to fully suspend our disbelief. | | | REVIEW: 'Great Russian Nutcracker' comes thankfully close to fantasy |
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http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041128/ENT03/411280364/1005
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| | Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker - December 2002-January 2003 |
| | From a hilariously bleak Christmas Eve at Dr. Dross’ Orphanage, through a shimmering ice-skating wonderland, to the spectacular candy folk of Sweetieland, Clara’s journey passes through Oliver Twist, the Icecapades and the kaleidoscopic fantasy of Busby Berkeley musicals. | | | Directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne, designed by Anthony Ward, original scenario by Matthew Bourne and Martin Duncan, music by Tchaikovsky performed by The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra | | | You can buy t-shirts, CD's and much more. |
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http://www.sadlerswells.com/whats_on/autumn2002/nutcracker.asp
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| | Ballet Pacifica The Nutcracker |
| | This year’s Nutcracker will be choreographed by Brian Reeder. | | | Gawriljuk and Marife will be performing for the 7:30pm performances on December 15, 17, 18, 20 and 21. | | | This year’s Nutcracker will be re-choreographed by renowned choreographer Brian Reeder and will feature the dancers of the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company. |
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http://www.balletpacifica.org/nutcracker.htm
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| | Bourne's despairing 'Nutcracker!' more a nightmare then a dream |
| | Vincent, who comes with the physique of a Chippendale's stripper and a clunky but never dancerly likability, has already succumbed to the feminine wiles of another woman, Sugar, who is the stand-in for royalty in this production, although she never gets to wear a tiara. | | | Will Clara get her man? The audience is kept guessing, to the final few notes of the music. | | | Matthew Bourne’s “Nutcracker!”: Cal Performances presents the American premiere. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/11/29/DDGOLA294H1.DTL&type=performance
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| | Nutcracker |
| | All the girls join in a lullaby dance with their new dolls. | | | Petipa asked composer Peter Illych Tchaikovsky (1810-1893) to write the musical score. | | | Clara sneaks into the parlor to watch over her nutcracker, where she is frightened by oversized mice led by a King Rat. |
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http://www.crballet.org/nutcracker.htm
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| | Morning Edition: Maurice Sendak's 'Nutcracker' |
| | That meant bringing Hoffmann's original story back to audiences, especially by having the main character, a girl named Clara, brought back into the story. | | | In 1984, Sendak took the same qualities of darkness and strangeness that made Wild Things a hit to breathe new life into the seasonal favorite, Nutcracker. | | | Sendak later enhanced his original set drawings for the book version of the story, which was published in 1984. |
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http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2001/dec/nutcracker/011217.nutcracker.html
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| | Nutcracker! |
| | Bottom line: Matthew Bourne's updated version of "The Nutcracker" (an American premiere production at Royce Hall) is original, touching, a bit campy and dazzling. | | | Bourne adroitly and playfully blends fantasy with social realism. | | | At the Frozen Lake, the set is right out of a Henie skating musical extravaganza, complete with white-clad skaters, snow and Clara as she searches for her nutcracker, only to discover that she has a rival. |
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000740079
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| | The Nutcracker - Holiday Feature |
| | Today, the most popular wooden nutcracker is the Erzgebirge Santa Claus. | | | The number two piece is a soldier or piece with a weapon. | | | They originated in West Germany after World War II. |
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http://www.oldtowncrier.com/0505/feature1.html
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| | The Nutcracker Story - Rose Marie Floyd Ballet |
| | Fritz snatches the doll and breaks the Nutcracker’s jaw. | | | He heard the celesta, a keyboard instrument with an ethereal sound and patented in 1886, and was one of the first to compose for it. | | | In 1891, the legendary choreographer Marius Petipa (1819-1910) commissioned Russian-born composer Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) to write the music for the Nutcracker Ballet. |
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http://www.rosemariefloyd.com/the_nutcracker_story.html
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| | Arts Unlimited Arts reviews Nutcracker! |
| | At midnight, little Clara's Nutcracker doll comes to life as a terrifying Frankenstein monster (Neil Westmoreland), who lumbers towards the quaking children and cracks open the walls of their prison. | | | Marius Petipa, The Nutcracker's original choreographer, apparently considered its libretto "très bon". | | | Their games are curtailed by the leather-clad Dr Dross and his fearsome wife, who lock up their toys and lob the skeletal Christmas tree out of the window. |
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http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,11712,1101296,00.html
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| | The California Ballet Company Online - repertoire - The Nutcracker |
| | In the original it is a fairy story not without "black" implications, wherein the fantasies of childhood blend with the dark side of the unconscious. | | | Magically the room grows larger and, at a sign from Drosselmeyer, the toys come alive. | | | CALIFORNIA BALLET'S ADAPTATION OF THE NUTCRACKER appeals to the child in all of us. |
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http://www.californiaballet.org/repertoire/index.cfm?fuseaction=cor_av&artID=530
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| | PBT gives 'Nutcracker' new life - PittsburghLIVE.com |
| | "The Nutcracker" often is unfairly maligned as the visual equivalent of holiday elevator music. | | | Saturday's matinee performance of "The Nutcracker," the first show in the ballet's foreshortened two-week run, cast a surprisingly potent spell. | | | This particular Nutcracker debuted in 2002, with the action taking place in Pittsburgh in 1904. |
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http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/entertainment/arts/s_403121.html
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| | Kids Domain Crafts - Nutcracker Decoration |
| | You can read the Nutcracker Story online, complete with music. | | | You can also read the story of Clara and her Nutcracker, and play the music from the ballet while making them. | | | Look at all the different styles of nutcrackers. |
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http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/nutcracker.html
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| | HeraldNet - Snohomish County's online news source |
| | When he fixes the broken nutcracker doll, for instance, there are more "abracadabra" flourishes. | | | After his father's death earlier this year, Daniel Wilkins, who's had his own professional career in New York, returned to Edmonds and assumed the role of associate artistic director of OBT. | | | EVERETT -- Longtime followers of the Olympic Ballet Theatre's "Nutcracker" this year have new and distinctive choreography to watch for as Clara and her Nutcracker Prince return to the stage. |
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http://www.heraldnet.com/ae/story.cfm?sectionname=THEATER&file=03121917902793.cfm
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| | The Nutcracker |
| | Cincinnati, OH, December 23, 2004 – Due to unforeseen weather conditions, Cincinnati Ballet has rescheduled today’s matinee and evening performances of The Nutcracker at Music Hall. | | | One of the toys was not really a toy at all but a magical wooden Nutcracker. | | | Both performances are now scheduled for Monday, December 27, 2004, 2 p.m. |
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http://www.wguc.org/cincinnatiballet/season0405/thenutcracker.html
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| | Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! - Sadler's Wells - December 2003 - January 2004 |
| | Warner Vision are releasing the DVD of Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! | | | We're been given 50 advance copies to present to winners of our DVD competition. | | | Last year his Play Without Words made for the Royal National Theatre, received two Olivier Awards and is shortly to be revived. |
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http://www.sadlers-wells.com/whats_on/2003_2004/nutcracker.asp
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| | The Daily News - News - 12/12/2005 - PBT's 'Nutcracker' off to rousing start |
| | I've been to some musical theater productions in particular where sometimes the orchestra been distracting by being overpowering and drowning out some of the vocalists. | | | By the second act of "The Nutcracker" particularly, it became clear something definitely was missing, musically, from the entire experience. | | | Petite Maribel Modrono made the perfect childlike Marie, with Daisuke Takeuchi's athleticism evident as he complemented and assisted her or performed solo as the Nutcracker or the Enchanted Prince (or Drosselmeyer's unnamed nephew). |
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http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15738173&BRD=1282&PAG=461&dept_id=182115&rfi=6
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| | Buy Cheap Nutcracker Tickets - Nutcracker Ballet Theater Tickets |
| | Your Nutcracker order will be fulfilled within 6-24 hours. | | | She creeps downstairs and when the clock strikes midnight, she is startled to see mice appearing from all corners of the living room. | | | Background: The Nutcracker is a Christmas fairy tale about Clara, her Nutcracker doll and the magician Drosselmeyer, and their amazing adventures in the Land of Snow and the Kingdom of the Sweets. |
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| | The Nutcracker |
| | The Nutcracker also features puppets by Kermit Love, perhaps best known for his work with Muppet creator Jim Henson. | | | The Nutcracker will also feature more than 100 local children and performances by local youth choirs. | | | The ballet features more than 50 of the finest dancers in the world, accompanied by the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra performing Tchaikovsky’s immortal score. |
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http://www.motopera.org/dance/nutcracker.html
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| | Nutcracker |
| | For this production Christensen collaborated with New York designer Robert O'Hearn to create, as Christensen recalled, "a full-length fairy tale ballet simple in plot and lavish in presentation." The new Nutcracker opened on December 12, 1967 with guest artists Melissa Hayden and Jacques d'Amboise dancing the principal roles. | | | The 1967 production of the Nutcracker was the most widely performed ballet from the San Francisco Ballet repertory, seen by more than a quarter of a million audience members. | | | America's first performance of the complete Nutcracker was staged by Willam Christensen and the San Francisco Ballet in 1944. |
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http://pwp.value.net/~cchris/Nutcracker.html
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| | Nutcracker - MKS Inc. - UNIX to Windows Porting Solutions |
| | ABT's magnificent stars perform Tchaikovsky's holiday classic in a 'sugar plum of a production that is both a crowd pleaser and a dancer showcase' (The New | | | They're some of life's sweeter moments and the perfect time to express your joy or gratitude with a Nutcracker Sweet gift. | | | The Stage Online :: Reviews :: The Nutcracker |
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http://nutcracker.recommendlist.com
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| | Great Performances . "The Nutcracker" from the Royal Ballet PBS |
| | Conductor Evgenii Svetlanov leads the Royal Opera Orchestra through some of Tchaikovsky's most beloved music, including "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" and "Waltz of the Snowflakes." | | | The Multimedia Presentation allows you to print a set and a variety of character cutouts from "The Nutcracker," which can then be colored and assembled in order to stage your own version of the ballet. | | | Generations of audiences have enjoyed this perennial Christmas favorite, a charming tale of holiday adventure that follows a little girl's journey through a fantasy world of fairies, princes, toy soldiers, and an army of mice. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/nutcracker/nutcracker.html
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| | Nutcracker |
| | Featuring Tchaikovsky’s glorious music and set in turn-of-the-last-century Canada, this version preserves the best of the Russian tradition and spices it with a uniquely Canadian perspective. | | | Based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s children’s tale, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, the ballet tells the story of a young girl’s Christmas fantasy. | | | Filled with a mischievous bear, dancing mice and a handsome Nutcracker Prince, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Nutcracker is a fantastical ballet for the entire family. |
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http://www.rwb.org/season/nutcracker.html
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| | NZ Ballet |
| | The Nutcracker is just what the doctor ordered! | | | The adventure begins on Christmas morning when Clara's rat-bag brother clouts her over the head with her beloved nutcracker doll. | | | Home > What's on > The Nutcracker - 2005 |
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http://www.nzballet.org.nz/nutcracker.html
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| | Nutcracker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | They are also used for cracking the shells of crab and lobster so that the meat inside can be eaten. | | | Modern nutcrackers, designed solely to crack nuts, are usually made somewhat like pliers, but with the pivot point at the end beyond the nut, rather than in the middle. | | | The carving of nutcrackers as well as religious figures and cribs developed as a cottage industry in forested rural areas of Germany. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutcracker
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| | Bourne strikes again |
| | This is the first U.S. tour for "Nutcracker!" which Bourne made on commission back in 1992 and revised a few years ago. | | | But his version may well be the most irreverent of late. | | | Bourne is not the first to bear down with an editor's pen on the tale of a girl's dream journey from her bourgeois home to Candyland, where family and friends reappear as dancing bonbons and flowers. |
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http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2004/12/09/sections/entertainment/et_theater/article_337162.php
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| | One of the World’s Largest Nutcracker Collection, well over 4000 pieces. |
| | Nutcrackers have been in use for thousands of years; in fact evidence shows that it was one of the first chores done by mankind. | | | As the official book of The Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum, it showcases the largest collection of nutcrackers in the world — photographed and preserved in one place for the first time ever. | | | This is a MUST for every nutcracker collector. |
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http://www.nutcrackermuseum.com
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| | Amazon.com: Nutcracker: Books: E.T.A. Hoffmann,Ralph Mannheim,Maurice Sendak |
| | As for the story itself, despite the darkness showing the treachery that made Nutcracker suffer, we see more character development in Marie and her willingness to find love in her otherwise dark household. | | | This exquisite yet rambunctious book on the original Hoffman Nutcracker story (no, not the sanitised version from Tchaikovsky's ballet) should arguably be a wonderful representation of the story. | | | The illustrations are wonderful, the story (which goes far beyond the plot of the ballet) is fantastic, and it has become a family heirloom which we read every year at Christmastime. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/060961049X?v=glance
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| | A 'Nutcracker' That's Made to Order (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Joshua Starr as the Nutcracker Prince and Mariana Olaizola as Clara in dress rehearsal for the Washington Ballet's first new "Nutcracker" in 40 years. | | | The story is unchanged, with Clara's gift of a nutcracker doll prompting her to dream that it becomes a prince who leads her to a magical kingdom of the imagination. | | | Of course, he does -- his later mauling of Clara's nutcracker is the fateful moment that lodges the doll ever more firmly in her emotions. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60250-2004Dec12.html
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| | THE NUTCRACKER, IU Ballet Theater |
| | In 1997, performances of The Nutcracker were moved from the IU Auditorium to the Musical Arts Center. | | | The Indiana University Ballet Theater is proud to present its 46th annual production of The Nutcracker. | | | The IU Ballet Theater first produced The Nutcracker in 1958. |
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http://www.music.indiana.edu/publicity/ballet/balletnews/0101/intro.html
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| | Whidbey Island Dance Theatre Home Page |
| | Whidbey Island Dance Theatre, the dance company that brings the popular Nutcracker to South Whidbey each year, presents a diverse program featuring ballet, modern dance, jazz, and lyrical pieces created by professional and emerging choreographers. |
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http://wdt.bigmindcatalyst.com/cgi/bmc.pl?page=pubpg.html&node=1015
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| | RelishNow Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker' is a holiday tradition across the country - and a big moneymaker for the ballet ... |
| | It is a feel-good, family-friendly type of show with a Christmas theme that generations of families have made a part of their holiday celebrations. | | | The money is used to pay Winston-Salem Symphony pit musicians and to underwrite the prepartory program, scholarships and guest artists in the arts-school's dance division as well as scholarships for design and production. | | | One is reported to have written that we're all "one more Nutcracker closer to death." |
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http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_RelishArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1128768360103&path=!entertainment!general!front!article!&s=1037645508970
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| | Boston.com / A&E / Theater/Arts / Pas de deux: a 'Nutcracker' of bold luster... |
| | Pas de deux: a 'Nutcracker' of bold luster... | | | You can see this production as merely gorgeous, but you can also notice themes such as foretelling and recalling that stitch the fantasy together. | | | Boston.com / AandE / Theater/Arts / Pas de deux: a 'Nutcracker' of bold luster... |
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http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2003/12/05/pas_de_deux_a_nutcracker_of_bold_luster
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| | Telegraph Arts Fancy packaging |
| | Bourne's Nutcracker: the dance is so strenuously dorky | | | Since those days, of course, Bourne has discovered in shows such as Swan Lake how to choreograph epic pathos and enigmatic human commentary as well as do the jokes. | | | There are eight Nutcrackers being performed around Britain this year, which even as a dyed-in-the-wool Nutcracker fan I find slightly demoralising. |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/11/28/btnut28.xml&sSheet=/arts/2002
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| | ballet.co Nutcracker page |
| | The child Clara dreams that the nutcracker doll given to her by her godfather, Drosselmeyer, turns into a handsome prince - but she remains a child, and the 'ballerina' role belongs to the Sugar Plum Fairy, who gets the big pas de deux and the prince. | | | his was the unpromising review that greeted the first performance of Nutcracker - which, fortunately for us, survived to become perhaps the most popular, and certainly the most often performed, ballet of all time. | | | he original story on which Nutcracker is based was by E.T.A. Hoffmann, but on the way to becoming a ballet much of the 'grimmness' was discarded, leaving a distinctly thin plot and characters it is difficult to care much about. |
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http://www.ballet.co.uk/contexts/nutcracker.htm
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| | Washington Ballet's Nutcracker - George Jackson |
| | The juniors may also have learned to pay attention and had the chance to practice their manners by not talking during the dancing and not applauding out of turn. | | | The production is a traditional Nutcracker with original touches. | | | Not only did persons from the dance world attended but, by and large, the general audience, too, knew what to expect. |
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http://www.danceviewtimes.com/dvdc/reviews/winter04/washballetnuts.htm
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| | Joffrey Nutcracker - Lisa Traiger |
| | And that story of family-centered values and sweet dreams come true, it seems just right as the new world order, where right and might have usurped giving and grace, settles in for another four years. | | | The Joffrey's, with its opulent Victorian setting, its pitfalls notwithstanding, is wonderful, even if just for the number of local children it includes in real dance roles, not just smile-and-curtsey party parts. | | | Photo on home page: The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago’s Valerie Robin and Sam Franke in The Nutcracker, by Herbert Migdoll |
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http://www.danceviewtimes.com/2004/autumn/12/joffreynuts.htm
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| | NUTCRACKER - Online Information article about NUTCRACKER |
| | The old supposition that the Nutcrackers had any See also: | | | Edwards in 1758 (Gleanings, No. 240) to a See also: | | | Contrary to what was for many years believed, the See also: |
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| | The Nutcracker Synopsis |
| | She awakens in bed, as the Nutcracker Prince salutes his princess Clara. | | | The party ends, the guests leave, and the Stahlbaums retire for the night. | | | Clara is also entertained by the dance of the Mirlitons, a dance with Madame Bonbonaire and her clowns, a Russian dance, and the Waltz of the Flowers. |
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