The Nutcracker Ballet

Fantasia has a content warning when viewed on disney plus to day, noting that it includes negative depictions and or mis ment of people or cultures. Although neither the fish nor the mushrooms are human, they both retain some of the exotic, sized, stereotyped depictions that are often part of the nutcracker ballet. The ballets founder and coriographer, william christianson, talked through ideas for it with coriographer george ballenchin and alexandra denilova of ballet ruse. Four years after fantasia, the san francisco ballet staged the first us. Performance of the full nutcracker dance.