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?
Ballet
Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread, highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary based on French terminology. It has been globally influential and has defined the foundational techniques used in many other dance genres and cultures. Ballet has been taught in various schools around the world, which have historically incorporated their own cultures and as a result, the art
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