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There is not a dull or unperfected moment in this year's outstanding Boston Ballet performance of The Nutcracker. Featuring the familiar and well-loved Tchaikovsky score, beautiful and exotic fairy-tale scenery by Helen Senn and Herbert Pond, and exquisite costumes by the British designer David Walker, The Nutcracker provides a wonderful way to celebrate the holiday season while enjoying the best ballet dancing of the year...
...Nutcracker has become a holiday tradition in America and is a treat that only comes around once a year. For lovers of ballet, this year's performance is especially entertaining because it offers the best dancing the Boston Ballet has seen this season. But the 140,000 people who will see this years show clearly proves that the combination of humor, gorgeous dancing, holiday spirit and beautiful music reaches out beyond lovers of ballet to all audiences...
...somewhat grotesque, journey into the blurred area between reality and fantasy. In 1844, a French writer, Alexandre Dumas pere softened and sweetened Hoffman's tale into the story of a young girl's Christmas fantasy that would inspire Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov to stage it for the Maryinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1892. Act One opens in the Silberhaus home where the family eagerly awaits party guests, and Clara and Fritz eagerly await the accompanying presents. Their mysterious and magical godfather, Dr. Drosselmeyer (Laszlo Berdo) enters once all the guests have arrived with a number of surprises...
...pleasure. The height of the Russian dancer's leaps and their perfect synchronicity elicited tremendous applause from the audience. The slow and sensuous, technically challenging Arabian "coffee" movement performed by Kyra Strasberg, Todd Eric Allen and David Porter, mesmerized the audience and incorporated elements of modern dance into classical ballet. Finally, the rapid speed of the Sugar Plum Fairy's pirouettes and her leaps in plie on point all allowed Jennifer Gelfand to look delicate and effortless while demonstrating her internationally recognized mastery of technique. While strong on her own Gelfand proved to have even more range in her movement...
...Nutcracker. Through Jan. 2. Presented by the Boston Ballet. Wang Center, 270 Tremont St., Boston. $18-$56. Call 931-ARTS for tickets...