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 ( Read more... )
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 ( Read more... )
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So I saw The Slutcracker in 2012 and completely failed to write about it for LJ or anyone else (I had notes; they were lost) and I don't know how much the choreography changes with different performers from year to year, but one of the touches I really loved about the production I saw had to do with the Wet Spot Fairies. It was after Clara and Fritz have been reconciled. I don't know who danced Fritz that year, but he was a tall clown with a wonderful precision of movement that he used for graceful leaps and lifts and double-takes and forlorn mime; he starts the ballet as the kind of boyfriend who thinks that wrapping his package in red ribbon and dropping trou at the engagement party is the sexiest Christmas gift of his girlfriend's life, he's horrifiedly embarrassed when Clara's godmother publicly presents her with a sex toy, as though declaring to the assembled suburbanites that he's ( ... )
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