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.”