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THE NUTCRACKER
SUBJECTS --- Dance;
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING --- Romantic Relationships;
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS --- Respect.
Balanchine/New York City Ballet Version: Age: 5+; MPAA Rating: G; Ballet; 1993; 93 minutes; Color. This version is probably best for very young children.
Baryshnikov/American Ballet Theater Version: Age: 8+; Not Rated (but suitable for all ages); Ballet; 1977; 79 minutes; Color. This version is probably best for children ages 10 and up.
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This is the all time favorite Christmas ballet and certainly the most popular ballet among children.
The TeachWithMovies.com Learning Guide to The Nutcracker will help parents and teachers acquaint children with ballet and the interpretation of dreams.
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The Nutcracker is one of the fairy tales about toys come to life. In this case, they fight the mice who terrorize the dreams of the little girl heroine.
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To give you a sense of how our Learning Guides can be used by teachers as lesson plans and by parents to supplement school curriculum or for homeschooling, we have set out below a paragraph from the Learning Guide to The Nutcracker.
The Nutcracker is frequently performed at Christmas by local and regional ballets. Many of these productions are excellent and offer close to professional quality. Better than watching the films is to take children to one of these performances where they can see children and adults from their own community perform on stage. Check your local newspaper for listings. If your children show interest in the stage production, you can watch one of these films with them and compare.
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