Classical Meets Hip-Hop at Urban Nutcracker
The holiday production adds a fun modern flair to a century-old classical ballet.
A family Christmas party… A little girl named Clara receives a Nutcracker from her godfather… Clara falls asleep… She has a dream… The Nutcracker becomes a real, living soldier… Suddenly she's in the middle of a fight between her Nutcracker and the Mice King… The Nutcracker wins… Turns out he is a prince! He takes her on a journey to enchanted forest where snowflakes dance. This is the story of "The Nutcracker and the King of Mice," what most of us know as a popular ballet production, the Nutcracker. With Sugar Plum Fairy twirling around the stage, performing a combination of triple pirouette, jeté and arabesque promenade, the Nutcracker has been around for more than a hundred years, becoming an annual holiday favorite among many people. …
