Nothern Ballet's Nutcracker - reviews

Mentioning earlier that The snowflakes costumes from Northern ballet had their greatest impact on me compared to the other snowflakes costumes, I managed to explore some critical reviews about the costumes for the Northern ballet's Nutcracker - including different performances across the UK. For me, the most capturing element of these costumes were the contrast of the bright blue color on white and the hair accessories, so I was interested to discover other elements suck as lighting, sets,choreography,etc. have their influence too. Here are some quotes which I selected:

Charles Hutchinson from New York press names the whole performance "delightful contrast/alternative escape" contrasting it to classic panthomime. According to his critiral view a great impact on the whole performance have the sets pointing out as most effective the way the castle is designed as well as the snow land which I've been analysing for my practical work. Another aspect of the performance emphasized in his review, is the choregraphy pointing out the mixture of humour and enchanting.

"The snow instead is to be encountered in glistening, twinkling, heavy-falling form on the stage front cloth, just as it greeted you when Nixon last revived his beautiful Regency setting of the late 19th century Christmas ballet in early December 2010.

If you enjoy Charles Cusick Smith’s designs for the York Theatre Royal pantomime, then you can re-double that joy for The Nutcracker, where his grand designs are truly a magical winter wonderland, whether for the castle, the snowy fairyland or the beautiful garden of Act II. Christropher Giles’s contribution as costume design assistant is vital too: the Regency couture is as spectacular as the scenery, and everything is shown off to maximum effect in Mark Jonathan’s lighting."

The balletnew.co.uk calls the costume "vivid" which also confirms my opinion about the strong impact of the colors of the costumes.

Thepublicreview.com also built their review on sompliments mainly about the set and the choreography, without mentioning The Land of sno in particular. Their main describtion of the show is a simplycity in the story line and extravagancee in the outlook. An extravagance achivied with a very high budget:"There is certainly no expense spared on the staging or exquisite costumes in this production, providing a pleasing visual spectacle throughout."
There is not much mentioned about the costume and their impact, except describing them as beautiful.

Additionally, I did find a very interesting opinion from the audience on the northern ballet website which verifies my opinion that costumes are very realistic and are implying real feelings as I said the snowflakes' costumes made me feel freezing. 

Sources:
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/leisure/theatre/10123411.Review__The_Nutcracker__Northern_Ballet__Leeds_Grand_Theatre/
http://balletnews.co.uk/northern-ballets-the-nutcracker/
http://www.ballet.co.uk/magazines/yr_07/nov07/jt_rev_nbt_1007.htm
http://www.thepublicreviews.com/the-nutcracker-grand-theatre-leeds/