The Nutcracker: Best Choreo per Dance
Inevitably my quest to find the best Nutcracker split off into a quest for the best choreography per scene/dance. I will not rest until I find a Trepak I like!!!
ACT I
| Overture/guests arriving | Vainonen/Gigorovich tie |
| Christmas party dances | Vainonen |
| Drosselmeyer's entrance | Vainonen/Gigorovich tie |
| Mechanical dolls | Grigorovich |
| The Nutcracker introduced | Grigorovich |
| Grossvatertanz | I'll throw Wright a bone on this one |
| Guests' departure | Grigorovich |
| Metamorphosis of the salon | Tomassen |
| Rat battle | Vainonen |
| (Nutcracker parts of the battle exclusively | Baryshnikov) |
| Waltz of the Snowflakes | Morris/Simonov tie |
ACT II
| Arrival to Candy Land | Tomassen/Isberg tie |
| Spanish Dance | Isberg/Simonov tie |
| Arabian/Turkish Dance | Vainonen/Isberg tie |
| Chinese Dance | Isberg |
| Trepak | ??? |
| Dance of the Reed Flutes | Vainonen |
| Mere Gigogne et al. | Tomassen/Balanchine/Isberg tie |
| Waltz of the Flowers | Isberg??? Vainonen??? |
| Pas de Deux (parts 1 & 2) | Isberg |
| Cavalier's Tarantella | Baryshnikov |
| Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy | Peter Martins for Barbie (no I'm not kidding) |
| Final Waltz | ??? |
| Apotheosis | Simonov |
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