Dance
Dorrance Dance
The Nutcracker Suite
Bay Area Premiere
Dec 14–15, 2024
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12/14/2024 08:00 pm
12/14/2024 09:30 pm
America/Los_Angeles
Dorrance Dance: The Nutcracker Suite
https://calperformances.org/events/2024-25/dance/dorrance-dance-the-nutcracker-suite/
Zellerbach Hall
Dec 14, 8pm
Dec 15, 3pm
Dec 15, 3pm
Tickets start at $35
Explosive tap dance meets hot jazz rhythms in acclaimed company Dorrance Dance’s intoxicating production of the holiday classic. Danced to Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s marvelously inventive 1960 reinterpretation of the classic Tchaikovsky score, The Nutcracker Suite boogies, slides, struts, and dives through the magical story of a young girl and her fantastical Christmas adventure. Along with collaborators Hannah Heller and Josette Wiggan, Artistic Director Michelle Dorrance transforms the Sugar Plum Fairy into a slinky Sugar Rum Cherry, the “March of the Toy Soldiers” becomes a swinging brass “Peanut Brittle Brigade” romp, and the original ballet’s pageant of national dances gets a fresh new 21st-century twist. “The orchestrations are playful, surprising, imaginative. Ms. Dorrance and her collaborators…have responded in kind” (The New York Times).
MICHELLE DORRANCE, HANNAH HELLER, JOSETTE WIGGAN | The Nutcracker Suite (music: Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s interpretation of the Tchaikovsky score) |
The Program Book will be available approximately one week before the performance.
Dec 14–15, 2024
Add to Calendar
12/14/2024 08:00 pm
12/14/2024 09:30 pm
America/Los_Angeles
Dorrance Dance: The Nutcracker Suite
https://calperformances.org/events/2024-25/dance/dorrance-dance-the-nutcracker-suite/
Zellerbach Hall
Dec 14, 8pm
Dec 15, 3pm
Dec 15, 3pm
Tickets start at $35