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The music of the party scene, with its playful marches and stately gavotte, is pleasant and lovely, but the real joy of Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” doesn’t begin until Clara goes to bed.

The dance was a gavotte, too spirited for talk.

And he cast a ball scene in Act I as a gavotte, a popular dance form in the colonies.

But given the outright ugliness of this year’s presidential election, the bare-knuckled wrangling of Fiorello’s era seems more like a friendly gavotte conducted in kid gloves.

Inside, the building is an intricate gavotte of interlocked functions and juxtaposed ramps and balconies.