Get in the Holiday Spirit with The Nutcracker!

Published December 18, 2015

There are 17 different versions on reserve in Josten Library; choose traditional or not, ballet, modern, or both!

See our NUTCRACKER PRIMER (below), and chose your version. You can’t stop at one! A veritable history and panoply of Nutcrackers!

Movies

New York City Ballet (Macauley Culkin, Kistler, Cook).
Choreographer: George Balanchine
DVD GV 1790 N8 B3 1997

Pacific Northwest Ballet (Maurice Sendak sets)
Choreographer: Kent Stowell
DVD GV 1790 N8 P32 2011

New York City Ballet (Hayden, Villela, McBride)
Choreographer: Kurt Jacob, after Lev Ivanov
DVD GV 1790 N8 N48 2009

Nutcracker Family : Behind the Magic / a film by Virginia Brooks.
DVD G1790 N8 N88 2006
At the New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet.

American Ballet Theatre (Baryshnikov, Kirkland, Minz).
Choreographer: Mikhail Baryshnikov
VHS GV 1790 N8 A1 1988

Bolshoi Ballet (Maximova, Vasiliev, Gordeyev, Pavlova).
Choreographer: Yuri Grigorevich, after Lev Ivanov
DVD GV 1790 N8 B6 2004

Bolshoi Ballet (Arkhipova, Mukhamedov, Verrov).
Choreographer: Yuri Grigorevich, after Lev Ivanov
DVD GV 1790 N8 B6 2005

Bolshoi Ballet (Kaptsova, Ovcharenko, Savin).
Choreographer: Yuri Grigorevich, after Lev Ivanov
DVD GV1790 N8 B6 2011

Kirov Ballet (Lezhnina, Baranov, Russanov)
Choreographer: Adapted by Vasily Vainonen
DVD GV 1790 N8 K5 1994

Royal Ballet (Nureyev, Park)
Choreographer: Rudolph Nureyev
DVD GV 1790 N8 2000

Royal Ballet (Cojocaru, Putrov, Dowell).
Choreographer: Peter Wright, after Lev Ivanov
DVD GV 1790 N8 R69 2001

Royal Ballet (Yoshida, McRae, Avis).
Choreographer: Peter Wright, after Lev Ivanov (also streaming)
DVD GV 1790 N8 R69 2010

San Francisco Ballet (Smith, Powell, Karapetyan).
Choreographer: Helgi Tomasson (also streaming)
DVD GV 1790 S35 2008

Bejart Ballet Laussane
Choreographer: Maurice Bejart
DVD GV1790 N8 B4 2000

Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker.
Choreographer: Matthew Bourne
DVD GV 1790 N8 B7 2003

Mark Morris Dance Group. The Hard Nut.
Choreographer: Mark Morris
DVD GV 1790 N8 H37 2007

Australian Ballet.
Choreographer: Graeme Murphy
DVD GV 1790 .N8 A8 1994

Compagnie Malka (Greg Germain, director; produced by Axe Sud)
Choreographer: Bouba Landrille Tchouda
"This performance revisits the story and provides "a" phantasmagoric nutcracker, reinvented through hip hop dance influences."

Royal Ballet (Yoshida, McRae, Avis)
Choreographer: Peter Wright, after Lev Ivanov