NJPAC Presents Traditional and Hip Hop Versions of The Nutcracker Story

(NEWARK, NJ) — New Jersey Performing Arts Middle (NJPAC) is again to dwell performances this vacation season and as soon as once more presents a alternative of Nutcrackers from the normal carried out by the State Ballet Theater of Ukraine to the story reimagined as a vacation dance spectacle in The Hip Hop Nutcracker.

The standard Nutcracker carried out by the State Ballet Theater of Ukraine takes place on Sunday, December 11 at 3:00pm. This vacation traditional transports you to a stunning winter wonderland on this particular matinee efficiency. Step into choreographer Andrei Litvinov’s magical world of toy troopers and colourful characters. Tchaikovsky’s beloved rating is stuffed with immediately recognizable music, together with “Waltz of the Flowers,” “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy,” “Waltz of the Snowflakes” and extra. It’s a magical traditional for all ages.

Tchaikovsky’s 129-year-old ballet is reimagined as a vacation dance spectacle in The Hip Hop Nutcracker, now in its triumphant return for a seventh season. Hip Hop Nutcracker produced by NJPAC makes a house cease from this yr’s 34 metropolis tour on the stage the place the manufacturing was created on Saturday, December 18, for 2 performances 2:00pm and eight:00pm.  See the manufacturing that includes hip hop pioneer Kurtis “The Breaks” Blow, the primary rapper to be signed by a serious label in 1979.  Forty two years and a coronary heart transplant later, hip hop’s founding father continues to be performing as MC of The Hip Hop Nutcracker. 

Directed and choreographed by Jennifer Weber, this up to date dance spectacle is a re-mixed and re-imagined model of the traditional, smashing hip hop dance and Tchaikovksy’s timeless music collectively right into a heart-stirring and inspirational vacation occasion. The Hip Hop Nutcracker is dropped at life by a powerhouse solid of a dozen all-star dancers, a DJ, a violinist, and MC Kurtis Blow, certainly one of hip hop’s founding fathers, who opens the present with a brief set. Let the dynamic performers of The Hip Hop Nutcracker take you on a journey that celebrates love, neighborhood, and the magic of the vacation season.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), situated at One Middle Avenue in downtown Newark, N.J., is America’s most numerous performing arts heart, and the inventive, cultural, instructional and civic heart of New Jersey – the place nice performances and occasions improve and remodel lives day-after-day. NJPAC brings numerous communities collectively, offering entry to all and showcasing the state’s and the world’s greatest artists whereas performing as a number one catalyst within the revitalization of its house metropolis. By way of its in depth Arts Education schemes, NJPAC is shaping the following era of artists and humanities fans. NJPAC has attracted almost 10 million guests (together with over 1.7 million kids) since opening its doorways in 1997, and nurtures significant and lasting relationships with every of its constituents.