The Nutcracker - Laurel County Schools

LexingtonRalletLuis K-minguir; | Artist*: C'tt*:K<<The NutcrackerDecember 2011 Teacher's Study GuideAll rights reserved. Lexington Ballet CompanyThe PlotThere are many versions of the basic Nutcracker story since its original production in1891. The Lexington Ballet's version is as follows:Nuremburg, Germany, Late Napoleonic EraACT1A wicked sorcerer, seeking revenge for being turned into a king of rats, has turned the nephew of his antagonist,the mysterious Herr Drosselmeyer, into a plain Nutcracker doll. To break the spell, the Nutcracker has to defeatthe Rat King and make a young princess fall in love with him. Drosselmeyer decides that his goddaughter,Marie, would be the perfect girl to help him get his nephew Christmas Eve, Marie's family (Doctor and Frau Stahlbaum and Marie's brother Fritz) throws a party wherethere is much dancing, gift giving and story telling, including the grizzled Baron spinning tales of courage of hisyoungest soldiers and adventures in foreign lands.

Nutcracker and battle with the Rat King and his minions, much of the second act is devoted to individual dance pieces, performed before Marie and her companion in the Land of Sweets. (ircat dance should seem effortless, displaying certain physical lightness - an expression of freedom, or longing

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