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Dancing the Nutcracker: Inside the Royal Ballet

The Royal Ballet gives full access behind the scenes for a landmark documentary as they prepare for this season's yuletide production of The Nutcracker.

This Christmas, step into the magical world of The Nutcracker. For the first time in many years, the Royal Ballet has given full access behind the scenes for a landmark 90-minute documentary as they prepare for this season's yuletide production.

This year's Nutcracker marks the debut of one of Britain's brightest young stars, Francesca Hayward, in one of the most famous roles in ballet (and every little girl's dream) - the Sugar Plum Fairy. Stepping into the shoes of the greatest dancers ever to grace the stage - from Darcey Bussell to Margot Fonteyn - we follow her as she prepares to dance the role that made her want to be a ballerina when she was just three years old.

The production also sees the debut of numerous young dancers across the company, from its youngest stars at the Royal Ballet School playing the roles of party children and battling mice to the final year students dancing as snowflakes on the journey to the Land of the Sweets.

With unprecedented access to the creative departments, from set designers to tutu makers, and including beautiful performance sequences, this film takes the viewer directly into the Royal Ballet during the busiest and most magical time of the year. In so doing, it reveals not just the talent of the dancers, but also the extraordinary team behind the scenes that makes The Nutcracker one of the world's most spectacular ballets.

1 hour, 29 minutes

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Boxing Day 2021 19:30
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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:02

    Emil Edlinger, Hungarian State Orchestra

    Nutcracker Suite Op. 71: I

  • 00:07

    Aram Khachaturian

    Adagio from Spartacus

    Conductor: Alexander Lazarev. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra.
  • 00:12

    Doris Day

    Dream a little dream of me

  • 00:21

    The Velvet Underground

    Sunday Morning

  • 00:22

    Michael Bubl茅

    It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

  • 00:23

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy聽

  • 00:39

    Tracey Thorn

    Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

  • 00:50

    Gene Kelly, Donald O鈥機onnor & Debbie Reynolds

    Good Morning

  • 00:59

    Ludovico Einaudi

    Primavera

  • 01:02

    Michael Kiwanuka

    Cold Little Heart

  • 01:18

    Narada Nutcracker Performers

    Pas De Deux

  • 01:20

    The Philharmonia Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas

    Selections From "The Nutcracker": Scene XIV: A) Pas De Deux

Credits

Producer Hugo Macgregor
Director Hugo Macgregor
Executive Producer Nicolas Kent
Production Company Oxford Film and Television

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