Goh Ballet’s inaugural performance of “The Nutcracker” has given Vancouver a classic to call its own. With Anna-Marie Holmes choreographing a marvelous and entertaining show encompassing some 197 cast members, the story of a little girl who dreams of a winter wonderland has finally come to life.
Never did I know ballet could be so fun. There were dancing bear with a ferocious sauté, a high-kicking grandma, a drunken maid, and a wee gingerbread man that loses one of its arms to a rat. For the role of Drosselmeyer, Holmes chose not a dancer but a professional magician. Damien Carriere brought plenty of wows and wonder throughout the elaborate two-hour show. With kids making up majority of the cast, the sold-out theatre was clapping to giddy effect at every cutesy and funny step.
I quite enjoyed the different dances with ballet, for example, viewers get treated to a waltz, gymnasts Katerena Goston and Orion Sky Radles danced to an Arabian duet, Stanislav Galimkhanov squats and spins ever so beautifully in the Russian dance. There are countless other highlights, including the crazily cute dancing mice and the impossibly pretty Waltz of the Flowers.
What really created the color-hues and effect are the delicately designed costumes as well as the stage backgrounds which were specifically custom-made from China. Elevating the show to even greater heights is the solid live performance of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky’s score by the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra and a pitch-perfect number by the Tzu Chi Children’s Choir and Vancouver Children’s choir.
It is not hard to envision that “The Nutcracker” will become an instant Vancouver December classic. Just simply an amazing performance and you only have 3 more days to catch it. Better hurry.
I quite enjoyed the different dances with ballet, for example, viewers get treated to a waltz, gymnasts Katerena Goston and Orion Sky Radles danced to an Arabian duet, Stanislav Galimkhanov squats and spins ever so beautifully in the Russian dance. There are countless other highlights, including the crazily cute dancing mice and the impossibly pretty Waltz of the Flowers.
What really created the color-hues and effect are the delicately designed costumes as well as the stage backgrounds which were specifically custom-made from China. Elevating the show to even greater heights is the solid live performance of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky’s score by the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra and a pitch-perfect number by the Tzu Chi Children’s Choir and Vancouver Children’s choir.
It is not hard to envision that “The Nutcracker” will become an instant Vancouver December classic. Just simply an amazing performance and you only have 3 more days to catch it. Better hurry.
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