NOTES Rudolf Nureye’s version of The Nutcracker for the Royal Swedish Ballet was Reviewed for Dance News by Anna Greta Stahle: “The Christmas party takes place in a palace-suggesting old St. Petersburg. The parents and children are dressed in directoire style, and the ole people, like Drosselmeyer, keep to the fashion of their youth and are in rocoo. The acting and miming is staged with imagination and humor; it is indeed an elegant and lively party. “Clara is a girl of an age between child and woman, and consequently her dreams are both childish and tinged with an erotic element. Nureyev has omitted the visit to the Kingdom of Sweets and has built the divertissement entirely on dreams in which Clara’s family and Drosselmeyer appear in different shapes. The same dancer is seen as Drosselmeyer,the Rat Kaing, and the Prince. Clara is herself all though the ballet, dancing the usual Suparplum Fairy pas de deux with the Prince as thought it were a dream of herself as a princess.”