Back from "The Slutcracker"
...which I enjoyed immensely.
One thing that I went into the show not knowing, just because I never thought to ask and no one thought to mention it: The Slutcracker uses the entire Tchaikovsky score of The Nutcracker. I had no idea that was the case. I'd assumed it was the dance equivalent of a jukebox musical and had a storyline vaguely relating to The Nutcracker. I was wrong. You could have knocked me over with a feather.
Every time I hear "Waltz of the Flowers" from now on, the first thing that comes to mind is likely to be the fantastic stripper ballerina flower fairy dancing a solo in purple and green underpants and pasties (who I learn is called the Wet Spot Fairy) and, you know, that's a pretty cool image to have in my head. (And the Russian Dance has likewise been overwritten by the whip-cracking dominatrices, but that came even more easily since the whip cracks have been in that music since it was created.)
My word, that man in the pink sparkly penis-themed costume was an exceedingly agile and graceful dancer.
The "Dance of the Reed Pole" stripper-pole sequence was the most amazing thing in the show. My respect for strippers' dance skills has increased. We just saw a dancer hang five feet in the air, swaying horizontally from the point where the inside of one knee gripped the pole, and whip off her top with a gesture that said "Whee!" Most people in that pose wouldn't be able to convey "Whee!" with the joy that she did. I'm frankly boggled.
One thing that I went into the show not knowing, just because I never thought to ask and no one thought to mention it: The Slutcracker uses the entire Tchaikovsky score of The Nutcracker. I had no idea that was the case. I'd assumed it was the dance equivalent of a jukebox musical and had a storyline vaguely relating to The Nutcracker. I was wrong. You could have knocked me over with a feather.
Every time I hear "Waltz of the Flowers" from now on, the first thing that comes to mind is likely to be the fantastic stripper ballerina flower fairy dancing a solo in purple and green underpants and pasties (who I learn is called the Wet Spot Fairy) and, you know, that's a pretty cool image to have in my head. (And the Russian Dance has likewise been overwritten by the whip-cracking dominatrices, but that came even more easily since the whip cracks have been in that music since it was created.)
My word, that man in the pink sparkly penis-themed costume was an exceedingly agile and graceful dancer.
The "Dance of the Reed Pole" stripper-pole sequence was the most amazing thing in the show. My respect for strippers' dance skills has increased. We just saw a dancer hang five feet in the air, swaying horizontally from the point where the inside of one knee gripped the pole, and whip off her top with a gesture that said "Whee!" Most people in that pose wouldn't be able to convey "Whee!" with the joy that she did. I'm frankly boggled.