The Hidden History of The Nutcracker || DOCUMENTARY
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The Hidden History of The Nutcracker is an educational documentary about the long and rich history behind America’s most performed ballet. Come along with your host, Magical Molly, as she talks to writers, former ballerinas, and dance scholars to find out just how deeply this classic Christmas tale has woven itself into the fabric of American culture.
GUESTS
Michelle Doering
Writer
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Rachel Ingersoll
Former Ballerina
Researcher for Fors Marsh Group
INSTAGRAM: @ringersoll
TWITTER: @rachelingersoll
LINKEDIN: Rachel Ingersoll
Dr. Jennifer Fisher
Dance Scholar
Assistant Professor of Dance History at the University of California, Irvine
Former Ballerina
Author of “Nutcracker Nation” www.amazon.com...
and “Ballet Matters” www.amazon.com...
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RESOURCES USED:
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by ETA Hoffman
The Life and Letters of Pyotr Illich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker Nation by Dr. Jennifer Fisher
www.thoughtco....
time.com/364079...
www.npr.org/20...
www.nytimes.co...
www.thoughtco....
blog.oxforddic...
www.magicofnutc...
Music is from The CZcams Audio Library & Musopen.org
forgot to list in the credits the Dance Theatre of Harlem was also featured for their version of the Act I Pas de Deux between the Snow Queen & King
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I’m glad you talked about the original story. Most people have no idea the ballet was based on a book first.
As someone who knew next to nothing about the Nutcracker I found this super interesting and accessible. Great job!
thank you so much! so glad you enjoyed!
Loved this! I think it might be your best one yet. I was obsessed with the Nutcracker every Christmas when I was kid. It's such a great story.
TheWordN3rd 😭😭😭😭thank you so so much💜
May I suggest the book called Raising the Barre by Lauren Kessler? It's about a woman who has loved the Nutcracker for years and finally gets the chance to dance it. Quite the interesting adventure!
My personal connection to the Nutcracker began with Fantasia and the gorgeous animation of the delicate and colorful Sugar Plum Fairies has inspired me for years. I see the ballet as an ultimately escapist work of art that opens a window into what I was dreaming about as a child, so I can at least understand why I and many others love it so much.
I’m very pleased to have found this video. Fantasia and the animated Keither Sutherland movie were my first exposure to the Nutcracker and the Mouse King. The music and iconography bewitched me as a child and even as an adult I still play the Tchaikovsky score every Christmas. I’ve never been into the ballet myself as I found it a bit boring but it was really cool to see a well researched and well interviewed piece on the stories history. Thumbs up from me.
Molly--I'm just re-watching because I'm putting your movie in my university C.V. and found myself admiring it again! You really cover a lot of the history and the popularity as a phenomenon, such an accomplishment. I did some media interviews in the COVID season, when Nutcrackers almost disappeared, but this year, I'm sure they'll come roaring back! Cheers, hope you're well, Jennifer Fisher
oh yay! I'm so glad you enjoyed it, and I was so happy to have you in the documentary
My personal favourite is the Royal Ballet version, with the ending of the Nutcracker being turned back into a human and reuniting with Drosselmeyer. It starts and ends in Drosselmeyer's workshop and has a nice rounded storytelling from his pov.
Also grew up dancing ballet and being in our local production of the Nutcracker, I've danced most parts except Klara and the Sugarplumfairy (wasn't good enough for that haha)
I was very little when I first heard the story of The Nutcracker. Late one cold December night, I sat out in the family room with my Mom, wrapped myself in a blanket, and listened to her read a number of Christmas stories to me, some which I remember well, some which I vaguely remember, and likely some that I've forgotten. One of these stories was the original The Nutcracker. I heard it before I knew the ballet even existed (but I had heard the music, but didn't know what it was from), and I absolutely loved the story. I thought it was such a lovely story, and I have re-read it almost every year since then. As you can imagine, I actually found the ballet pretty underwhelming, though I still love it (especially the music).
This is an excellent documentary. Well researched and well edited. Bravo!
Good job! Thank you for the video, it's a great way to catch-up before my very first attendance of the performance ;]
I've been searching for the Nutcracker and then I stumbled upon this video. To be honest, this is the BEST video about the story so far! I've learned a lot from this video. I'm now hoping to find an excuse to make an essay about this and pass it to my English teacher lolz.
oh my gosh thank you so much!
@@MollyLikovich you're very welcome. Keep it up!
I grew up going with my dad to see the nutcracker every year. I had no idea there was so many different versions! I always saw Clara as the hero.
4:34. "The ending that she wakes up at the end, and it's all a dream -- I'm quite sure that that came from The Wizard of Oz." No, it was Bolshoi choreographer Alexander Gorsky who actually came up with that plot twist, for the 1919 revival of the ballet.
This was an awesome commentary! Loved it!
I was first introduced to The Nutcracker when my 4th grade teacher introduced it to my class. Her daughter was in a production, which she showed us a VHS tape of. It was a bit of a revelation. At that point, I thought ballet shows were dances without a narrative. What I got was like a silent film performed on stage.
Speaking of The Wizard of Oz, the original Nutcracker book seems like the kind of story L. Frank Baum would write.
I'm going to watch the nutcracker and the four realms on christmas eve and I already know I'm going to cry like a baby. I love the nutcracker! This was perfectly put together. thanks for this bit of magic molly :)
danzachick 😭😭😭😭thank u so much! I LOVED tthe nutcracker & the four realms I have a whole review critics didn’t like it but who cares & once again THANK YOU your support as does everyone’s means so much to me🎄
Watching this again for 2019! Watched it when it first came out and loved it. 😊
Thanks again!
thank you!
This is so interesting!
Adele Marie I agree! Thank you for watching💜
One of my favorite traditions was to go with my parent to the ballet each christmas. So this is a special story for me. However I have not read the book and I liked very much how you told it.
This was amazingly done and very interesting. I applaud you for your work, that I can imagine was quite a lot. Bravo!
Can't wait for the Frankenstein one.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Molly, I enjoyed watching your video about the Nutcracker history. In December 2019, watching the ballet on CZcams became my newer holiday season tradition. I more likely love the traditional ballet, like the 2017 one from Tampa, Fla., and the 1993 movie. Marie is my favorite character, but I didn't know she was also known as Clara. The classical songs are in my head, making me wanna sing ("la-la") to 'em. I need to watch the 2018 movie called "The Nutcracker & the Four Realms". I spotted the adult Clara in the trailer. I've heard of the Nutcracker dolls, but I wonder if there are the Clara dolls because I wish I could collect one of 'em. I came on over to your channel and watch this video about how the Nutcracker novel started and why it turned into a more modern ballet. I've heard of the metallic nutcrackers. If you have one of 'em, then you need to squeeze the handle to break some shells and have some nuts. Happy holidays! 🎄🎅🌨❄⛄🎊🎉
Looking through your channel, this content is 🔥🔥🔥
thank you!
I grew up watching the Barbie in the nutcracker movie 😊
great video! Amazing! I loved it!
yay thank you!
Hello. Thank you for posting this video as the Nutcracker has been one of my favorite stories. Ive also been interested in its origins and other ballets as well. How to find more well written docuntation?
great video
Oh my gosh1!!v That was really awesome, and really interesting! I knew about the nutcracker, but I didn't know the whole story about it. I must've read a totally warped version of the story because it had a sad ending in the one I read as a little girl.
Sarah NightOwl there’s many many children book re writes so that’s not uncommon there’s too many children’s versions of the classic novel for me to go into them all here but I’m so glad you liked my video!
wait wait wait. you mean that "The Nutcracker Prince" movie I had when I was a kid that came out in the 80s or 90s wasn't a wild fever dream of a film but was based on the ORIGINAL NOVEL????
First off, The Pacific Northwest/Maurice Sendak version of the Nutcracker is my favorite version of the story.
Second, I wish Tim Burton or The Muppets did the Nutcracker.
There was also a 1973 Soviet Russian Nutcracker short cartoon.
Nutcracker The Motion Picture is my must watch holiday film.
Good video btw.
muppets nutcracker would be amazing
This was awesome!
thank you so much, maisie!
Thoughts on the Barbie version of nutcracker?
WATCH! we cover it in the doc
Maybe this is a silly question but
have you seen Princess Tutu.
It's like,
if you like ballet,
and stories in general,
please do yourself a favour.
i have not
@@MollyLikovich Oh just the biggest rec, please put it on your list.
I'm in the nutctacker my first year I was a soldier this year a soldier😊
that's awesome!
i wanted my 6th graders to watch this until I heard you say "why the hell did someone want to turn that into a ballet?" Great research, but unfortunately, not able to show my students
Why? Because I said "hell" lol okay.
@@MollyLikovich yea, elementary.. I don't want flack... Personally, I think you did
a great job.
You can just skip that part
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Thank god, I was going to throw up if you didn’t mention Barbie in the Nutcracker at least once
it's an iconic piece of cinema.
@@MollyLikovich haha ^^
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Wow...it might be closer to reality if you changed "Magic" to "Extremely Annoying Nerd"...gotta go after 2 minutes
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