The Sugar Plum Fairy lives in and rules in what is typically called "The Land of Sweets." It is here that Clara and the Nutcracker travel to after defeating the Mouse King. The divertissement portion of the Ballet occurs in The Land of Sweets.
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky. The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy is from the third movement, act 2 of the 1892 ballet
The Sugar Plum Fairy.
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies
Miniature OvertureMarchScene and Waltz of the SnowflakesSpanish DanceArabian DanceChinese DanceRussian DanceDance of the Reed PipesWaltz of the FlowersIntradaDance of the Sugar-Plum FairyCodaWaltz Finale and ApotheosisIt should be noted that none of these are songs, but movements, or sections of instrumental (orchestral) music. One can call them "pieces of music"; a rather awkward term. A song requires words, although some forms of music are called "Songs without words" and the like - but they are not really songs.
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies.
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky. The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy is from the third movement, act 2 of the 1892 ballet
The Sugar Plum Fairy.
The Sugar Plum fairy is a character in the ballet "The Nutcracker" by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. In the ballet, the Sugar Plum fairy rules over the land of sweets while she waits for the return of the prince, who has been turned into a nutcracker.
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies
The "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" is a famous piece of music from Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker." Tchaikovsky composed the ballet in 1892.
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, from "The Nutcracker."
Miniature OvertureMarchScene and Waltz of the SnowflakesSpanish DanceArabian DanceChinese DanceRussian DanceDance of the Reed PipesWaltz of the FlowersIntradaDance of the Sugar-Plum FairyCodaWaltz Finale and ApotheosisIt should be noted that none of these are songs, but movements, or sections of instrumental (orchestral) music. One can call them "pieces of music"; a rather awkward term. A song requires words, although some forms of music are called "Songs without words" and the like - but they are not really songs.
In the first act of the Nutcracker, the female lead is Clara. The Sugar Plum Fairy is the female lead in the second act.
I think it would be ballet because it comes from the Nutcracker Ballet.
ABT - American Ballet Theater.