Dancing with Your Family
I never danced in The Nutcracker ballet. In fact, I didn’t have access to an inexpensive production that my single mom could afford. That meant I did not grow up seeing live performances of The Nutcracker. The good news is that the ballet occasionally came to us via our television. I studied the main characters' actions, including a pretty little girl, a toy nutcracker, a handsome prince, and a villainous mouse king. While I didn’t understand all of the ballet, I was enthra