TRIVIA & QUOTES

NUTCRACKER TRIVIA

How much do you know? Test yourself with this short quiz.

What Russian city is the home of the Maryinsky Theater, where Nutcracker was first performed?

- St. Petersburg.

In addition to Nutcracker, what other ballet musical scores were written by Techaikovsky?

- Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty.

What Disney movie uses part of the musical score from Nutcracker?

- Fantasia.

Ballet Quotes

"I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words."-- Ruth St. Denis

"Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the light, indeed one with the dance."-- Shirley Maclaine

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once." -- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

"The dance is simply the luminous manifestation of the dancer's soul, natural but not initiative speaking in movement out of himself, that which is greater than all parts of self."-- Source unknown

"Dancing is the poetry of the foot."--John Dryden

"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word."--Mata Hari

"Kind are her answers,
But her performance keeps no day;
Breaks time, as dancers
From their own Music when they stray."--Thomas Campion

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."--e.e. cummings

"Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy." -- Jaques D'Amboise

"To dance is to be out of yourself, larger, more powerful, more beautiful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking."--Agnes De Mille