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The Nutcracker Student Activities Guide The Nutcracker Student Activities Guide Dear Teacher, Thank you for choosing to expose your students to the wonderful world of ballet! In order to assist you and your students to prepare for your upcoming field trip, we have listed a few suggestions of hands-on-activities that may be used to peak students’ interest and broaden their knowledge of the Nutcracker story. The Nutcracker Plot President Silberhaus and his family are decorating their Christmas tree. Counselor Drosselmayer arrives, serious and sinister. He gives the children toys, including a Nutcracker. In the quarrel between Clara and Fritz, the Nut- cracker is broken. Clara puts it in her doll’s cradle. After everyone has gone to bed, Clara goes down to see her Nutcracker. All the toys have come to life and are battling the Queen of Mice. During the battle The Nutcrcker kills the Mouse Queen. The Nutcracker then turns into a prince who invites her to visit his kingdom. Clara and the Nutcracker Prince fly over a wintry forest to the Kingdom of Sweets where the Sugar Plum Fairy is Queen. There is a splendid banquet featuring many of Tchaikovsky’s most familiar melodies: Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Trepak (Russian), and the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. After reviewing the plot above, you may want to choose to explore the Nutcracker further with the following activities: Music Appreciation: Play some of the music from the The Nutcracker, especially from the titles listed above. Note how each song at the feast is connected to a different country and how the various styles, rhythms, and instruments help to set the mood. Ask students to look for the different styles of movement and costumes when they attend the performance. Creative Writings: Change the point of view by writing the story from the Nutcracker’s perspective. Or write a sequel. Or write a whole new story entitled “Land of the Sweets”. Art Class: Bring in a wooden nutcracker as a model and make nutcrackers out of empty paper towel rolls deco- rated with paper, etc. World Geography: Each of the foods in the Kingdom of Sweets is associated with delicacies from around the world. Explore the globe by making a musical map of the Nutcracker: Tea (China), Coffee (Arabia), Chocolate (Spain), Trepak (Russian), and the Sugar Plum (France) Performance Etiquette: A fun way to review rules of etiquette is to get students involved with a project such as Etiquette Posters, or writing their own Etiquette Poem or Rap. Remind them to include the following rules. Walk, don’t run to your assigned seat via the aisles, (no climbing over seats!!!) and talk quietly to your neighbor before the Overture, stop conversations as House Lights dim and enjoy the performance by staying focused on the stage, stay seated at all times, applaud politely- no hooting or whistling, no food or drink in the theatre!, etc. Follow-up Activity: On the following pages are activity sheets for students to complete and display at school, Or, you may wish to have students send them to the NFB dancers as a special thanks for their performances! We hope that these suggestions are helpful and that you and your students have a wonderful experience at The Nutcracker! Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns. Northwest Florida Ballet 310 Perry Avenue SE • Fort Walton Beach Florida 850-664-7787, Fax 664-0103 • www.nfballet.org The Nutcracker Performed by the Northwest Florida Ballet The Nutcracker Story Queen, Snowflakes and Candyland, where they meet sweets from around the world. They are met by the The Nutcracker is a holiday fairy tale about a Sugar Plum Fairy and beautiful waltzing flowers. young girl, Clara, and her very favorite Christmas. Clara does not want to leave her Prince, but on Her Godfather, Herr Drosselmeyer, is a magical, Christmas Day she awakens under the Christmas mysterious character who brings her a special tree with all her new friends gone and her family Christmas gift, a beautiful Nutcracker doll. She around her. receives the present from him at the annual family party. Very excited about the new doll, Clara wants She is left with the Nutcracker Doll and wonderful to stay up all night with it, but her family sends her memories of her most magical Christmas. off to bed. After everyone has left and the family is asleep, Clara sneaks downstairs to look at her Legend of The Nutcracker Nutcracker doll. She eventually falls asleep, and with a little help from Drosselmeier’s magic, her What today appears as a fairy tale of a young girl’s dream begins. magical dream began is a morbid story filled with dark undertones. E.T.A. Hoffman, the author of The Giant mice suddenly awaken Clara. The Mouse Nutcracker and the Mouse Queen, never intended Queen appears and tries to kidnap her and take her the story to be for children, as his words portrayed to her kingdom. Clara looks everywhere for her a bleak view of humanity and relationships. Nutcracker, but he is gone. Herr Drosselmeyer Published in 1816, Hoffman’s tale would undergo comes to her rescue and, suddenly, the Christmas revision by Alexander Dumas, eliminating much tree grows to an enormous height. Then soldiers of the bitterness to adapt the tale as a children’s appear, and behind them is the Nutcracker. He has story. The new version was read with interest by the come to save her from the Mouse Queen. First, legendary choreographer, Marius Petipa, the senior he must fight the Mouse Queen and her mouse ballet master of the Russian Imperial Ballet, who minions. After an exhausting battle, the Nutcracker commissioned Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to compose defeats the Mouse Queen. Then Herr Drosselmeyer a score for a full-length “Nutcracker” production in reveals that the Nutcracker is actually a real prince 1891. In 1892, the first showing of the Nutcracker who has come to take her away to his kingdom and took place at the Mariinsky Theatre of Russia, to show her his magnificent palace. Their journey home of the Kirov Ballet. The story would later be takes them through the enchanted land of the Snow simplified (but with the music left intact) and was At the final moment when the curse is to take effect, created as a holiday tale that has lasted generations. Drosselmeier’s nephew appears with the prized nut Hoffman’s plot centers around a young German and offers her the kernel. The moment she swallows girl named Marie who lived in a loveless house. the nut, she turns into a breathtakingly beautiful The only warmth in Marie’s life is a strange love woman. At the same time, young Drosselmeier she holds for her Nutcracker doll, a gift from her becomes repulsively ugly with elongated features Godfather Drosselmeier at the family Christmas like those of a wooden nutcracker (hence the party. At night after the party is over, hundreds name). No one ever bothered to tell him that he of mice appears from cracks in the room, led would inherit the curse in place of the princess. by the vicious Mouse Queen with seven heads. Instead of a fairy tale ending, the princess is He blackmails Marie into giving him all of her repelled by Drosselmeier’s ugliness and has her marzipan dolls by threatening to dismember her father banish him permanently from the kingdom prized Nutcracker doll. The Nutcracker eventually or face execution. In the commotion, Drosselmeier comes to life and attempts to fight off the Mouse accidentally steps on the Mouse Queen’s mother Queen, but is easily beaten. Marie retaliates by and kills her, prompting eternal vengeance on the throwing her slipper at the Mouse Queen and Nutcracker. fainting immediately after. There was no outcome At this point, Hoffman returns to the main story, to the battle in this portion of Hoffman’s tale. where another battle begins. This time, the Mouse The next time the reader sees Marie, she is lying Queen is killed by the Nutcracker and he sweeps in a pool of blood surrounded by her family and a Marie off into another kingdom where he is a doctor. She apparently has cut her arm on the glass prince. At the end of their journey through this of a toy cabinet that fell on her and she has nearly wondrous place, which also turns out to be the bled to death. Instead of comfort, her family scolds end of the evening, Marie is brought back to her her and sentences her to her room until she will bedroom. The story closes on a bright note as Marie admit that she is a naughty child. While Marie is meets and marries Drosselmeier’s nephew, but the recovering, Drosselmeier comes to visit and ends up abrupt ending and change good fortune appear to be telling her another story about the Mouse Queen and added on to disguise all of the bitterness in previous the Nutcracker. Here Hoffman tells a story within a portions of Hoffman’s story. story: The feud of the Nutcracker and the Mouse Queen aaa is legendary according to Drosselmeier. In the beginning, a beautiful princess Pirlipat is cursed to become forever ugly by the Mouse Queen’s mother who is avenging the death of several of her sons at the hand of the princess’ father. The only way to stop the curse is for a brave and handsome man to find the hardest nut in the world, crack it with his teeth, and deliver the kernel to the princess to eat. To sweeten the hunt, the king has promised his daughter’s hand in marriage and a grand money award to anyone who can break the curse.
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