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“Prima Princessa Presents The Nutcracker” DVD at $6.99 makes a great holiday ballerina gift for girls ages 3 to 7! This adorable DVD features England’s famed Birmingham Royal Ballet performing “The Nutcracker”, the classic Christmas ballet filled with snow fairies, waltzing flowers and toy soldiers. Little girls will not be able to resist putting on their princess dress up or ballet tutus and dancing along to the mini-dance-lessons-montages featuring students from the New York City Ballet’s School of American Ballet as well as little children in dress up tutus too. An adorable cartoon ballerina, Prima Princessa, narrates this charming show. “Prima Princessa Presents The Nutcracker” also has several fun bonus features featuring holiday crafts, holiday treats and more fun dancing.

“Prima Princessa Presents The Nutcracker” is the second DVD created by mompreneurs Mary Kate Mellow and Stephanie Troeller, two moms on a mission to bring the beauty and magic of ballet to young children everywhere.

For information on where to purchase “Prima Princessa Presents The Nutcracker” or to view a clip of the show please visit Prima Princessa at PrimaPrincessa.com. This fun website, full of free ballerina coloring book pages, free ballerina princess dress up games and more is a great resource for dance-loving children. DVD release date September 7, 2010!

Prima Princessa DVDs make cute inexpensive gift ideas for kids or great gift ideas for dancers this Holiday season. Available at Amazon.com, Target.com, Barnes & Noble.com and select stores across the country.

Reviewed by IE Mommy Friend – Nicole B.

The ballet was very enjoyable to watch as an adult and my three year old daughter watched it intensely too. She just started ballet and especially enjoyed the breaks from the show with the learning section teaching the dance moves passe`, glissade, sauté, sauté arabesque, and echappe sauté, The young children acting out the moves encouraged my daughter to get up and practice the dance moves. I was surprised and encouraged that
she would get up and practice the moves with them while watching a DVD. As a mom, I appreciate the educational aspect of entertainment.

The little fairy narrating really brought it to her age level and she sounded perfect for little three year old ears to hear. However, the “you who” comment from the narrator in-between sections was a little annoying. But, her voice is very cute and fun to listen too. My suggestion would be to replace “you who” with “my friends” or “attention ballerinas” for segment change statement. The Narrator was able to narrate the drama and help the ballet come alive on screen. The drama of the nutcracker kept my daughters attention because of the narrator’s ability to tell the story dramatically.

As we became near to the end of the DVD, the review of the ballet, the new dance moves, and then the pretend play was very effective in keeping my daughters attention. The DVD provided a real live use for ballet and her new ballet class she is taking now. She has something to look forward to do or experience for her self in
the future. I thought the references and focuses on dance moves was most effective and I would recommend this DVD to children under age 6 and beginning ballet.

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