The Nutcracker to Stuttgart

The Nutcracker

Choreography: Marco Goecke
Set- and costumes: Michaela Springer
Light: Udo Haberland
Dramaturgy: Anja von Witzler
Music: P. Tsjaikovski ‘De Notenkraker’, Mahalia Jackson ‘Silent Night’

One of today’s greatest dance innovators, resident Scapino choreographer, Marco Goecke made a wonderful and contemporary re-working of the old ballet classic ‘The Nutcracker’ by Tchaikovsky and Petipa. A traditional mainstay of the Scapino dance calendar, Goecke’s version of the ballet saw its return to Rotterdam stage after an absence of fifteen years.
Marco Goecke cleverly manoeuvres his quirky ‘signature’ style to closely follow the original tale by German romantic E.T.A. Hoffman, who discloses the mysterious depths of the adolescence of the girl Clara. Goecke displays his dance wizardry in the evocation of a shadowy fairytale realm where childish innocence and fantasy spill over into the fears surfacing from the depths of the subconscious.The elements that hallmark Marco Goecke pieces – the brooding atmosphere, playful, inventive choreography and the dancers’ nervous and virtuoso movements all feature in The Nutcracker. Goecke immerses the piece in his own world, as it were, critically distilling its essence and discovering that the two are remarkably alike.

The Nutcracker goes on tour, but theset remains at home.
The 22 cabinets, the thousands and thousands of black painted walnuts and other parts of the voluminous set, need not be moved from Rotterdam to Stuttgart, for the Stuttgart Ballet lends its own set. Besides it will also arrange two children who figure in it, and costumed al.
Scapino will dance four performances of Marco Goecke's 'The Nutcracker' in the Kammertheater in Stuttgart. This moves the company to the birthplace of this famous ballet noir. In the Kammertheater danced the Stuttgart Ballet in 2006 the world premiere of Goecke's Nutcracker.
The Dutch premiere was in 2008 at Scapino.

Saturday 18 until Monday 20 December, 2010, Kammertheater in Stuttgart, Germany

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