Set to a score by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and based on E.T.A. Hoffman’s 1816 short story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” the 1892 Russian ... famous 1892 ballet score. The choreography ...
The story of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King was transformed ... the chance to look at very different dances: the whirling Russian Dance, based on a Ukrainian folk dance, and the elegant Waltz ...