All the pieces outdated is new once more. Tchaikovsky’s 129-year-old ballet is reimagined as a vacation dance spectacle in The Hip Hop Nutcracker (www.hiphopnutcracker.com), performs the Kings Theatre on December 19. The manufacturing — now in its triumphant return for a seventh season — options hip hop pioneer Kurtis “The Breaks” Blow, the primary rapper to be signed by a significant label in 1979. Forty-two years and a coronary heart transplant later, hip hop’s founding father remains to be performing as MC of The Hip Hop Nutcracker.
Tickets can be found now at: https://www.kingstheatre.com/calendar/hip-hop-nutcracker/
Upon seeing The Hip Hop Nutcracker, ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov stated, “Athleticism is one factor and artistry is one other, however Jennifer Weber‘s Hip Hop Nutcracker places the 2 collectively like I’ve by no means seen. It is deeply transferring, ingeniously fashionable and pure magic.”
Weber is the Olivier and Emmy Award-nominated choreographer for the powerhouse solid of 1 dozen all-star dancers, an on-stage DJ, and an electrical violinist who flip the beloved Tchaikovsky rating on its head, whereas celebrating hip hop dance tradition, love, and neighborhood.
Blow has paved the way in which for generations of hip-hop artists after scoring the primary licensed gold document rap music in 1980, “The Breaks.” Blow can also be chargeable for “Christmas Rappin’, the perennial first rap vacation music. His latest coronary heart transplant has given him new perspective on life, his followers and touring.
“It is unimaginable for me to fulfill followers, and their youngsters, and their youngsters’ youngsters who love hip hop music,” says Blow. “It jogs my memory of how The Nutcracker brings individuals of all ages collectively too. I hope everybody makes vacation reminiscences for a lifetime once they come to our present.”
In The Hip Hop Nutcracker, Maria-Clara and the Nutcracker prince go on a dream journey battling a gang of mice, visiting the land of sweets, and studying the teachings of the vacation season. Revolutionary digital graffiti and visuals rework the panorama of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s beloved story from conventional nineteenth Century Germany to the colourful, numerous sights and sounds of a colourful and up to date New York Metropolis. The Hip Hop Nutcracker is an genuine expression of hip-hop dance and tradition that celebrates the magic of all the vacation season on probably the most inclusive vacation of all of them – New 12 months’s Eve, a time for brand spanking new beginnings.
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