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MAPA's Nutcracker Sweets 2016. Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Castle Theater. Photography by Peter Liu.
Lisa Thorn, Associate Ballet Mistress, and James Jordan, Ballet Master, at a rehearsal of The Kansas City Ballet's production of The Nutcracker.
MAPA's Nutcracker Sweets 2016. Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Castle Theater. Photography by Peter Liu.
This Eurasian Nutcracker, Nucifraga caryocatactes, was photographed in China, as part of a research project utilizing motion-activated camera-traps.
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Marie, played by Carolina Miller (far right) is surprised by a visitor that turns out to be her godfather (in black) Herr Drosselmeyer, played by Benjamin Linn in the Alabama Ballet production of the Nutcracker
Grandma and Grandpa MacDonald drove up from California to see Lauren in the Nutcracker ballet. Lauren had no idea they were coming to see her.
Photo courtesy of Jim Williams
Creighton Dance Company’s production of The Nutcracker recounts the classic tale of a young girls journey, beginning at her parents’ Christmas party and into her nightmares and dreams. Eventually, Clara is transported to a land of “sweets” where she is entertained by the Sugar Plum Fairy and other dance “confections”. She is accompanied by her beloved Uncle Drosselmeyer, and the Nutcracker “doll” (transformed into a “Prince”) that he has given her as a gift. The cast features dancers from the Creighton Dance Department and younger dancers from the metro community.
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High in the mountains of the West, gray-and-black Clark’s Nutcrackers swoop among wizened pine trees, flashing white in the tail and wing. They use their dagger-like bills to rip into pine cones and pull out large seeds, which they stash in a pouch under their tongue and then carry away to bury for the winter. Each birds buries tens of thousands of seeds each summer and remembers the locations of most of them. Seeds they don’t retrieve play a crucial role in growing new pine forests.