• 2014
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 38m
Getting to the Nutcracker

Summary Every Christmas season, The Nutcracker Ballet is performed in cities all over the world. What does it really take to produce this ballet each year? Our documentary film, Getting to The Nutcracker, takes you inside the Herculean effort involved in gathering the resources, assembling the volunteers, casting the dancers, rehearsing and staging the performances of this classic ballet. Los Angeles-based Marat Daukayev School of Ballet, led by the former Kirov star, takes you behind the curtain from auditions, the rigorous hours of rehearsals, the joy of landing a principal role to the pain of losing one. The dancers (boys and girls ages 3-18) are profiled; passionate people who, with their families, make incredible sacrifices of time and money just so that they may dance. View more details

  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 38m

Getting to the Nutcracker

Directed : Serene Meshel-Dillman

Written : Serene Meshel-Dillman

Stars : Unknown

All cast & crew

7.2

Details

Genres : Family Documentary

Release date : Apr 4, 2014

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official Facebook Official Facebook

Language : English

Summary Every Christmas season, The Nutcracker Ballet is performed in cities all over the world. What does it really take to produce this ballet each year? Our documentary film, Getting to The Nutcracker, takes you inside the Herculean effort involved in gathering the resources, assembling the volunteers, casting the dancers, rehearsing and staging the performances of this classic ballet. Los Angeles-based Marat Daukayev School of Ballet, led by the former Kirov star, takes you behind the curtain from auditions, the rigorous hours of rehearsals, the joy of landing a principal role to the pain of losing one. The dancers (boys and girls ages 3-18) are profiled; passionate people who, with their families, make incredible sacrifices of time and money just so that they may dance. View more details

Details

Genres : Family Documentary

Release date : Apr 4, 2014

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official Facebook Official Facebook

Language : English

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Getting to the Nutcracker (2014)
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