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Nut/Cracked was conceived in 2003 as a holiday in a fluid dance world where dance genres collide and jostle each other with a genial clamor in celebration of the winter holidays. Co-commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop in New York City and The Carlo Felice Opera House in Ge­noa, Italy, 2021 marked Nut/Cracked’s 19th consecutive season.  

 

Delighting audiences for over two decades, Nut/Cracked is The Bang Group’s beloved, witty response to The Nutcracker, conceived as a fluid dance world where classifications collide and jostle each other with a genial clamor in celebration of the winter holidays. Choreographer David Parker liberates The Nutcracker from its plot and tradition and seeks for it a new identity as a free-wheeling, genre-fluid vaudeville which breaks apart elements of the holiday season: surprise, anticipation, greed, community, generosity, and delight in a series of dances drawing inspiration from all corners of the dance canon—tap riffs and en pointe ballet by way of bubble wrap, disco, and Chinese take-out noodles, with modern and post-modern dance, disco, social forms and pure invention. Nothing is sacred as Nut/Cracked twists and melds various dance traditions into an ode to American eclecticism that honors the power of the human urge to dance while riding Tchaikovsky’s voluptuous waves of rhythm.  You’ll never watch The Nutcracker in quite the same way again!

 

“Mr. Parker’s piece is not only immensely entertaining but also intensely musical and witty, melding tap, disco, ballet and contemporary dance over 22 scenes that combine fantasy and silliness to marvelous effect.”

- New York Times, Roslyn Sulcas.

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