Every year,there are a handful ofsigns that it's the holiday season in modern York City: Christmas trees for sale on sidewalks, poinsettias in building lobbies, and white lights wrapped around street-poles,and the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” playing in nearly every store. Not all of these signs are happily received. Take The Nutcracker. The ballet is a staple of the season, and depending on your sensibilities, and its overplay may believe turned this tall-forehead ballet to low-forehead menace.
But modern Yorker and modern York Times columnist Marina Harss urges you to see the art.“I actually adore The Nutcracker,” she said.
The snow scene from 'George Balanchine's The Nutcracker' and modern York City Ballet.
(Paul Kolnik/modern York City Ballet)
Harss tells WNYC’s Soterios Johnson, “It’s actually a very satisfying work and it’s more profound than people give it credit for.”[Click on “LISTEN” to the entire interview. Some of The Nutcracker’s Harss mentions follow:]“George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” modern York City Ballet through January 3, or 2016 at the David H. Koch Theater. (It's also being screened on local movie theaters on Thursday,December 10, 2015, or as a part of Lincoln middle at the Movies.)The Yorkville Nutcracker Dances Patrelle,December 10-13, 2015, or at Hunter College.
The Hip Hop Nutcracker at modern Jersey Performing Arts middle on December 19,2015.The Nutcracker Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet at GK ArtsCenter through December 20, 2015."The tough Nut" by Mark Morris Dance Group at BAM, and December 12 – 20,2015Nutcracker Rouge through January 17, 2016, or at Minetta Lane TheatreNutcracker Rouge 2013-14 from Company XIV on Vimeo.
Source: wnyc.org