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Everyone needs to attend the Nutcracker at least once in his/her life. Ballet Idaho puts on a great performance accompanied with a live orchestra. It's a nice holiday event.
It has become a holiday tradition for our family to see the Nutcracker performed by Ballet Idaho. They do such an amazing job. The performance is wonderful!
I just moved from Phoenix and this production was even better. The music was superb. Phoenix doesn’t have live music anymore and having that here is a real plus. I’m ready for Christmas now
I loved the ballet. It was my first one, so I didn’t really have any expectations. The dancers were fantastic, the building was beautifully decorated for the event. I had so much fun. Already told friends to go with me again next year. Thank you.
Several weak parts. Was not happy with the lack intensity of the mouse/ nutcracker battle. Boys love that. The best part were the snow queen, the Arabian female, and the costumes.
Super performance from the actors and dancers. This was my first time seeing the show and it was just great, every scene, the dancing was so fun to watch. I would go again to see it.
It was greatly done and you could see how much everybody on stage was having fun as well!
Ballet Idaho's production was gorgeous. The quality of the dancers, costumes and sets was completely beautiful. They make slight changes every year. The Boise Philharmonic performed Tchaikovsy's music live, which was flawless.
Enjoyed the dancing, acting, and props in this lovely ballet. Would recommend this ballet production to others.
This Nutcracker Ballet was AMAZING AND UNFORGETTABLE!!
Saw the Friday, December 15th performance of the Nutcracker at the Morrison Center and was amazed at the quality of the dancing, scenery and costumes. This was a first class performance by the company dancers as well as the youngsters who are students at the Ballet Idaho Academy. I took a friend who had lived in Portland, OR and Virginia and she thought it was better than the performances she had seen before Friday night. All of the participants were so well prepared and the support staff did an incredible job of getting every setting correct, everything was in its place, and the dancers made it all look easy. I know that it isn't, but the whole thing went off without a wrinkle. Just amazing! A big thank you to the supporters and sponsors of the ballet and to Peter Anastos who does such a thorough job of training and preparing the dancers. It is a magical treat to see them perform.
Enjoyed the performance. Beautiful setting, music was great. Not as stunning costume wise as I recall at previous viewings, but still enjoyable.
hard to know how to rate this... the costumes were beautiful! dancers were excellent! sets were beautiful! but they didn't include one of our favorite parts--Mother Ginger and all the little ones hiding under her big skirt, and it is one of the more interesting parts for younger children (which i had with me)
I wish the main dancer had relaxed more, she was spot on in her moves but not graceful. Hopefully, that was opening night nerves and other performances improved. But we really enjoyed the overall performance!
We absolutely loved this performance. So beautiful, unique and funny (that was unexpected).
This ballet wasn't what I expected. I understood it would be a collection of three unrelated ballets, but they were vastly different, to the point where it didn't make any sense. The first was more or less your stereotypical ballet -- light and carefree, but overall a little forgettable. It was a Baroque concerto so the music was quite dull. The second was borderline performance art and not at all something I would ever want to see again. I wish I had known that going in, otherwise I would have picked another show to go to. From the music to the dancing (if you could call it that) everything sounded and looked ugly. The story was about an artist who was snubbed by the public and her critics, and then takes out her anger on her lover. I get where she was coming from... but throwing yourself around the stage and having a tantrum does not make a good ballet.This was unfortunately the longest performance of the night. The third piece was a comedy on everything that could go wrong during a performance. It was fun and upbeat, a huge difference from the second piece. You could tell the dancers loved performing that one. I respect the dancers and the musicians, but this was just an unfortunate grab-bag that they were stuck performing. If I were to see another ballet through this organization, I would see something with a cohesive story, not a catch-all. It honestly felt like a bunch of reject performances thrown together at the last second.
Over all, it was pretty good and ambience is good!
I recommended it also to people thy thought ballet was boring.
Excellent collaboration between Ballet Idaho, Boise Baroque Orchestra, and Del Parkinson! The pieces were exquisitely danced with grace and precision. Loved the new choreography! Very fresh and original.
Brilliant dancing, choreography, costuming and music!! Idaho Ballet can take another huge bow for this fantastic production.
