Key WEST – A classic holiday getaway ballet, re-imagined to celebrate Vital West’s coral reef atmosphere, seafaring heritage, and even its no cost-roaming roosters, has debuted in the subtropical island town.
“Nutcracker Crucial West” stars 18 professional dancers together with some 80 Florida Keys kids and adults. Alongside one another they deliver the timeless story to existence onstage at the Tennessee Williams Theatre.
Opening in a Key West location circa 1864, the output transforms the tale of young Clara’s getaway desire into an partaking island fantasy.
People include dancing snowy egrets, phosphorescent sea anemones, a flock of desirable infant chickens, the spectacular Sea Star Mermaid, and a nutcracker whose headdress features a conch shell, the greatest-recognised image of the Florida Keys.
“‘Nutcracker Essential West’ captures hundreds of yrs of creativity from the island lifestyle, from the reef to yard functions to the Navy becoming right here. It just encapsulates all of that, and offers back again to Important West a reflection of itself,” mentioned Matthew Rawls, the production’s creative director.
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Amongst emphasize sequences are a desire struggle concerning the nutcracker and the Rooster King and a coral reef scene wherever Clara and her nutcracker-come-to-existence are entertained by a dance of tumbling shrimp and colorful reef fish. All enable evolve the properly-liked ballet into a illustration of Crucial West’s heritage and lively underwater realm.
“I like the next 50 % the best for the reason that it truly is virtually absolutely underwater and it signifies Crucial West the most,” said Reese Kight, a 14-year-old Important West dancer undertaking the part of Clara. “The complete concept of Critical West is underwater and seashore themed, and which is the entire 2nd act.”
Evening and matinee performances of “Nutcracker Critical West” continue via Sunday, Sunday, Dec. 11.
