Word: sugarplum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to bother about a small band of Americans pillaging. For the Iraqis, survival is the necessity; for Saddam his survival as a dictator and tyrant, and for the Iraqi people, simply their lives. For the American soldiers, necessity is riches, comfort, luxury, and it is with sugarplum visions that they embark on their secret mission...
...BALLET IS WOMAN" IS GEORGE BALANCHINE'S MOST frequently quoted remark. Of course he was right. Enchanted bird, sleeping princess, sugarplum confection-the woman on her toes unlocks the mysteries of dance. It takes nothing away from male virtuosity, or the boost that Nureyev and Baryshnikov gave ballet, to say that female stars carry...
...performance this weekend, the company has rechoreographed all the pieces in the second act of the "Nutcracker," except the "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy...
Once Clara and the Nutcracker take their seats on the side of the stage, Chocolate, Coffee, Tea, Marzipan, Mother Ginger, the Sugarplum Fairy, and Russians all perform for their 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...
...threateningly around her until they are conquered by a newly potent nutcracker (Culkin), who is then transformed into an angelic, pink-suited prince. Thereafter the dream becomes a cotton-candy fantasy as the prince escorts Marie to the Kingdom of the Sweets, where waves of dancers, led by the Sugarplum Fairy (Darci Kistler), perform in the children's honor. In a hilarious mock-grandiose conclusion, the pair depart, ascending to the snowy heavens in a reindeer-drawn sleigh...