BarreTalk Posted June 9, 2003 Share Posted June 9, 2003 Each year the Academy of Classical Ballet (Denver Colorado) performs 2 times, the annual Nutcracker and a spring performance of one of the classical ballets. It's one of the primary reasons I take classes there, even though it's a 45 minute drive from home. Last fall, my work/travel schedule (as a TV director/cameraman) pretty much prohibited any possibility of my making enough rehearsals to make performing in Nut realistic. However, our cast was sterling, so I decided to take the opportunity to make a great video of the performance instead. It took way too many hours of editing time, but the project is now done. Two cameras, titles, credits, slo-motion, dissolves - this is a production I can be proud of, and that is a pretty high standard considering I have several EMMYs sitting on my mantle. If anyone is interested in seeing a high quality production of a COMMUNITY ballet group (we aren't NYCB and never will be), VHS copies are finally available. E-mail me for details barretalk@aol.com Link to comment
Jm'sugarplimfairy Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 Do they have a Sugar Plum Fairy in it? I know that might seem like a dumb question, but some times in some Nutcrackers they don't have a Sugar Plum Fairy. Link to comment
BarreTalk Posted June 17, 2003 Author Share Posted June 17, 2003 Of course there's a Sugar Plum Fairy! Can't do "Nut" without one. Link to comment
su-lian Posted June 18, 2003 Share Posted June 18, 2003 You can! Here, in the Nureyev version, it's Clara (or Louisa, or whatever you call her, but here it's Clara) who does that variation. Link to comment
Jm'sugarplimfairy Posted June 30, 2003 Share Posted June 30, 2003 I wonder why, the Sugar Plum Fairy is the Bomb!!!!! I mean it is cused (the music) The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy :D Link to comment
su-lian Posted June 30, 2003 Share Posted June 30, 2003 In fact, now I've thought more about it, the Royal Ballet's version is the only one I know with a Sugar Plum Fairy...Maillot's version for the Ballets de Monte Carlo doesn' t have one, Bart's version for the Staatsoper in Berlin doesn't eother, nor does the Royal Ballet of Sweden one by .... I can't remember his name right now, sorry, and I don't think the version by mark Morris has one either...I can't remember, but it would very much surprise me! Link to comment
Jm'sugarplimfairy Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 I have the video of the American Ballet Theater the NutCracker and there is no Sugar Plum Fairy:( Link to comment
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