I just love Ballet.  Infact my mum was a ballet dancer.  I remember as a child watching her in The Nutcracker ballet.
What form of ballet is the Nutcracker ballet?
Its a two act ballet originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. Tchaikovsky took "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy", the "Waltz of the Flowers", to form the Nutcracker.
What's the history of the dance?
Well it is a type of dance that originated during the Italian renaissance back in the 15th century would you believe!
What are the techniques?
Im not sure exactly the techniques but I do know that it has been globally influential and has defined the techniques used in many other dance genres and cultures.
Any renowned ballet dancer you know?
Bronislava Nijinska
Bronislava Nijinska (; , "Bronislava Fominichna Nizhinskaya", ); ( – February 21, 1972) was a Polish ballet dancer, and an innovative choreographer. She came of age in a family of professional dancers. Her career began in Saint Petersburg. Soon she joined Ballets Russes which ventured to success in Paris. She later met war-time difficulties in 'Petrograd' and in turbulent Kiev. In France again, public acclaim for her works came quickly, cresting in the 1920s. She then enjoyed continuing
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