The Nutcracker Tchaikovsky Analysis

The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet featuring original composition by Peter Llyick Tchaikovsky. This show originally premiered, on a double-bill with Tchaikovsky's opera Iolanta, at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg on Sunday, December 18, 1892. The show has had hundreds of different renditions since then. The ballet’s featured choreography tells a tale consisting of a long dream story within its main plot. During the opening scene, The Party Scene, a large group of men and women, girls and boys, all celebrate the holiday around the Christmas tree marching and dancing beautifully as Christmas surprises begin to occur. During The Party Scene, it is Christmas Eve at the Stahlbaum house. The stage was consumed by large presents and an enormous decorated tree. Within the first few minutes, guests arrive to the Christmas Eve party. And then, Clara’s Uncle Drosselmeyer arrives and the party really

The choreography, direction and scenario were all completed by David Nixon. As the ballet opens, there is a vision of holiday magic and holiday commotion. Though my family never dances like this during the holiday season, this is an all-too-familiar scene to my eyes, because it is this same chaos and excitement that consumes homes during the holiday season, every year. At points, it was light and happy, when guests were arriving and they'd take each other hand by hand and float light around stage as the kept with their partners. To me this symbolizes the beauty and comfort in catching up with those who return home for the holidays. It was almost as if one could assume disaster was going to strike amidst this happiness though. Then it did, seemingly immediately after Clara gets her new loved Nutcracker. Toys break, family is chaotic but everything calms down eventually, just like Clara at the end of the evening as she slept sweetly next to her fixed Christmas