An excellent video, thank you very much ✨

It’s a first arabesque en pointe and as a former ballerina I agree that’s pretty amazing, I’ve never seen that before either. No rosin on those shoes that’s for sure!

I’ve seen it done in other Nutcracker performances, and even saw a bts TikTok about it - it’s a piece of cardboard or something like it on the stage that the Sugarplum Fairy’s pointe shoe is placed on before the move. You can even see it on the floor during and afterwards if you know what to look for!

ive performed in this nutcracker its a small platform connected to strings that are pulled

I seriously never noticed, all these 30 years Clara is a child then magically a grown woman 😆

The High arises from the Base (or Low). If Everybody was Excellent, WHO would be sitting in the audience ?? Just old, retired Ballerinas ??

It's on KZfaq

It's a Gem.

it’s the new york ballet if you’re interested

nyc i think

​​@@transmutemineralore Yes that's great & all, but there's nothing like seeing a performance live & in person. It's just not quite the same

You're welcome, happy it helped 😊🙏

Yes, this video was very helpful to me as well. I could watch for 10 minutes and finally understand what the Nutcracker was about. Thanks.

You're welcome, glad you enjoyed ❤️ Merry Christmas ⛄

Drosselmeyer is Clara's godfather

He is her godfather, they aren’t closely related

It depends on the version you're watching. Some productions use the name Clara and others use the name Marie.

@@kate_cooper but it’s not the same role ? Because here Marie is not dancing when Clara does Thanks for your answer 😉

@@ClairePoirot Clara and Marie are just two different names for the same role, so there is no one called Clara in this version. Maybe you’re getting confused with the Sugar Plum Fairy, who is a separate character.

Sure, it's in our to-do list, count on it 💪❤️

The Nutcracker turns into the prince after defeating the rat king. Kinda a beauty and the beast situation. The boy watching the dances with Clara is the prince who was the nutcracker.

She greets them, but I don't think her famous dance is at the beginning of the second Act

@@CrisSelene yes this is what I meant

There are versions where the girl's name is Clara, there are versions where the girl's name is Marie. There are versions where she is played by a child, others where she is played by an adult.

The original name is Marie. If you read the original book by ETA Hoffmann, you'll see that her name is Marie.

My favorite part of the NYC version. That and the Spanish Dance.

It's weird cause I see it from 8:08 to 9:29. They included a big full minute of it, considering it lasts 6 minutes (just the pas). If you want to see the full pas just go to see it. Did you read the title? It's a short version, but you're free to do your "Nutcracker in 16 minutes" and include the Pas and watch it by your own. If you said it's not included you either are blind or ignorant lol

You are correct, daf3280, the music was not Grand Pas de Deux. It is the loveliest part of the ballet…

This was probably the best schlock you could pay money to see in the 1800s. There were no standards of storytelling back then. "It's a dream!" You shout at me from the comments. So fucking what? I expect care and thought to be put into my entertainment, no matter what genre, or era. The people who wrote this didn't care to actually finish the story. If they did and I just didn't hear about it, and their original story was hijacked by greed and the hedonism of the masses, butchering the point through simplification, then my point about humanity sucking still stands. It just annoys me that we, as a culture, are still holding on to what was never really a great production. That the general population would never go for or understand a deeper dive into the exact same topics The Nutcracker only hints at. It's all taken for granted. Or maybe we can just enjoy some dumb, pointless, and unfinished entertainment.

There’s a big outcry over the Tea aka Chinese Tea scene too! Here in the USA and at the RB in London. They say the negative stereotypes of the pointed straw hat, long mustache and pointed fingers are racist. It’s absolutely ridiculous. It’s all a fantasy! Maybe the marzipans should complain, along with the candy canes, that they’re not to be represented by female (the former) and male (the later) humans.

are you insinuating that only white people watch ballet

Y’all can’t be serious?

@@l.alexandra5871 I was kind of wondering about this watching the comparison vid of Chinese. But kids' fantasy!

@@kat4617 I can’t speak for Gone Fishing regarding the gratuitously unnecessary comment about how many minorities are lining up for ballet tickets. I for one think the remark is in terrible taste. But I will make two comments. Years ago you rarely saw POC “lining up” for ballet tickets or opera for that matter. That’s not the case as much any more cross-cultural exploration of certain forms of entertainment and art appeal to more diverse audiences. However, ballet is a French/Russian tradition and the greatest ballets were choreographed in the nineteenth century. Depictions of the Coffee by a variation with an Arab or harem theme and Tea by stereotypical Chinese representations should not be omitted. (We don’t throw out The Merchant of Venice because it’s a distasteful stereotype of Jews) . Ballet is an old art form, its choreography and the all important mime that goes along with it shouldn’t be changed because of revisionist sensibilities. Then Swan Lake should exist because an unsavory thought that a prince would fall in love with a bird. Or Sleeping Beauty because fathers shouldn’t be marrying off their sixteen year old daughters. Or the incomparable Giselle - which is about dead virgins haunting a forest where a dead young woman dances with a grieving prince. All these stories are outmoded. But there’s nothing wrong with any of it. Why not object to the Nutcracker coming to life and a little girl falling in love with a little boy. There’s always modern ballet and plotless ballets. I think Manon is overtly sexual and if it makes me uncomfortable I wouldn’t watch it.

Good for you. This video clearly isn’t for you then, is it?

@Harvey people like you and dogs are not allowed to sit in the audience usually, don't worry

I thought the subtitles were v helpful