This wonderful story is of a young girl's dream the night before Christmas. She travels to distant lands of Exotic Russian dancing dolls, Sweet Sugarplum Fairies, and a sword fighting Giant Nutcracker and Rat!
As a young ballerina growing up in the Northwest, my father would take me to the Pacific Northwest Ballet company’s performance of the Nutcracker. My inspiration grew as a dancer and at the age of 12, I was once casted in our hometown’s local Nutcracker performance as my favorite- a Sugarplum Fairy! I liked the Sugarplum’s dresses more then Clara’s old-Pj’s she had to dance in…hahah! Not only do the ballet dancers swirl your eyes around the stage with colors of lush reds, deep blues, and golden ordainment sparkles, and the soft white of the snow falling at night, but the music of the Nutcracker ballet is dazzling to your ears as waking up on Christmas morning as a child to a colorful tree filled with gifts and family JOY.
Truly, this performance should hold tradition in each family’s Holiday Spirits and adventures to dreams of distant lands of Sugarplum dancing fairies & sword fighting Nutcrackers.
Colorado Ballet- The Nutcracker
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