Nutcracker Christmas Tickets

This show was a lot of fun. The dancers were lovely and danced with joy.

The show was very amateurish. It was a student production. It was nice and they did a good job for their experience, but I was expecting a lot more and they just seemed to do the same dances over and over.

Show was not up to billing. Student production.. Reminded me of High School Play...

The dancing was beautiful and it was a very smooth performance. The only thing that could have made it better would have been a live orchestra.

I was expecting more dancers than that of the Miami City Ballet, however this was a small russian company. For this particular ballet, The Nutcracker, I think some of the dances are better off with more dancers, like the Waltz of the flowers. This ballet does not include a whole lot of classical ballet in the first act. The first act really just introduced the story. The second act, however, really gets into the grind of it, and the dances here were very good. The main four russian dancers, the prima ballerina and three others male dancers were in my opinion exceptional. They really complemented each other well, were graceful and flawless. When the four of them were on the stage, toward the end of the show, they performed a rather long number that gave me the chills. The audience clapped for a long time after that nubmer. The spanish dance with the younger, blonde russian dancer was also very good, the pas de trois was lovely and I really lilke the older russian dancer as well. Overall I would recommend this to anyone, with the disclaimer, that it is in many ways a children's ballet, so be prepared to see many kids on the stage as well.

Sets were beautiful. Costumes were fantastic. Unfortunately, the dancers displayed a low level of talent. The female dancers performed few jumps and essentially filled the time repeating the same steps over and over. The men were more impressive individually but were unable to perform the lifts without obvious struggle. The children were used more than the previous years I have seen this show which was fine except that I soon understood why: the talent of the adult dancers was only slightly above theirs. I wondered if they practiced with the same music as they were rarely syncronized with the orchestra or even with one another, for that matter. I had come to expect so much more and I was disappointed in this year's performance.

I have seen the Miami City Ballet's company performance and was very excited to see the Russian Ballet doing The Nutcracker; however, I was disappointed. The scenario seemed empty with few dancers than the ones in the Miami City Ballet's performance. As a matter of fact, the dance with the snow was composed of only 4 to 6 dancers and even my grandson said the dancers felt "lonely" up there. And some of the dancers were not as good as the ones I have seen before performing this ballet. Next year, I'm back to watching the Miami City Ballet at the Arsht Center.

Disappointed with this event in that the scenery was forgettable, some of the costumes/wigs were shoddy and looked moth-eaten. Also, there were numerous, glaring mistakes by some of the dancers in the troupe. This was my granddaughters first Nutcracker and now I am afraid I will never get her back to another one. I should have gotten tickets to the Balanchine production. I thought the Russian production would be much more professional.

I invite my family to go to the ballet, and this show was totatly unprofesional, its not acceptable. We called and asked if this was the profesional ballet at ticketmaster and they said Yes Well after an hour we got up and left, this was like an a school performance. We are disappointed and deseived. It was a special ocassion for us, and te result was awful.

Hopefully the principles that performed on Sunday afternoon were not the best the company has to offer! Overall the production was good but not the best I've seen.