I Love {The Nutcracker}

I positively love every.single.thing. about the Nutcracker ballet.  My very favorite rendition…and I’ve seen A LOT as a self professed Nutcracker lover… is the American Ballet Theater’s 1977 production with Gelsey Kirkland and Mikhail Baryshnikov. 

For a more modern two minute update, y’all absolutely HAVE to see this ad!!  The Bailey’s drinking Nutcracker lover in me thinks it’s just perfection!  I’d love to see the whole ballet done in this manner!!

And just for kicks, I’ll leave you with this image.  Yours truly as Clara in Ballet South’s 1993 Nutcracker.  One of my proudest personal achievements of all time and a dream come true to a sixteen year old ballerina.  It was the real deal… countless rehearsals, the Savannah Symphony Orchestra, sets, costumes, press pictures, reviews, bleeding toes and all.





xoxo