Nutcracker
Christmas Eve performance
The Nutcracker is Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet, a Christmas staple featuring Clara, her enchanted nutcracker doll, and the Sugar Plum Fairy.
Performances have become holiday tradition for ballet companies worldwide: We take the kids to see The Nutcracker every December. (Lowercase nutcracker is the tool for cracking nuts.)
- ClaraName meaning clear
- pas de deuxBallet for two dancers
- choreographyDesigning performance movement sequences
- pointeBallet's tiptoe technique
tutu · ballerina · arabesque · grand jeté · corps de ballet · adagio · Christmas Eve · toy soldier
Winter nativity celebration
- woodenMade from timber
- figurineSmall ornamental sculpture
- soldierArmed forces member
- GermanCentral European language
decorative · collectible · carved · painted · traditional · folk art · mantel · holiday
Tchaikovsky
- ClaraName meaning clear
- pas de deuxBallet for two dancers
- choreographyDesigning performance movement sequences
pointe · tutu · ballerina · arabesque · grand jeté · corps de ballet · adagio · Christmas Eve · toy soldier · celesta
Christmas
Winter nativity celebration
German · decorative · collectible · carved · painted · traditional · folk art · mantel · holiday · festive
- Seasonal StoriesFrosty, Rudolph, Easter story, polar express, nativity story
- Russian CultureBolshoi, matryoshka, Kremlin, Hermitage, balalaika
- TchaikovskySwan Lake, 1812 Overture, Sleeping Beauty, The Queen of Spades, Symphony No. 5
- BalletsSwan Lake, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote
- holiday theaterA Christmas Carol, nativity play, Scrooge, White Christmas, pantomime
- Tchaikovsky biographySwan Lake, 1812 Overture, Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping Beauty, violin concerto
NutcrackerRite of Spring
Modernist ballet about renewal
Romeo and Juliet · Giselle · A Midsummer Night's Dream · Swan Lake · Manon
- The NutcrackerYuletide ballet with dancing sweets
- Nutcracker SuiteHoliday ballet music collection
- nutcracker balletHoliday dance about toys
- pair of nutcrackersTool for cracking shells