The cast, comprised of dancers who have performed at venues that run the gamut from The Box to The Metropolitan Opera, includes Jennifer Carlson, Hyosun Choi, Sarah Conrad, Amy Daulton, Gregory Dubin, Glenn Giron, Eddie Gutierrez, Angela Harriell, Denis Hyland, Valton Jackson, Christina Johnson, Rachael Ma., Michael MacLaren, Joseph Schles, Ryan Schmidt, David F. Slone, Esq., Julie Smith, and Clare Tobin.
Direction / Choreography / Costumes: Angela Harriell. Musical Remixes: The Hack (a.k.a., David F. Slone, Esq.). Sound: Richard Reta. Lighting & Physical Sets: Mark Marcante. Stage Manager: Paul Birkelo. Video Sequences: Jan Luc Van Damme. Digital Sets: Jorge Colombo. Produced by Angela Harriell / David F. Slone, Esq.
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Angela Harriell and David F. Slone, Esq. present
NUTCRACKER: RATED R
A Full Length Contemporary Ballet
Returning for its Fourth Year, December 17-31, 2009
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After the last three years' sold-out runs, Nutcracker: Rated R returns for its fourth season! Nutcracker: Rated R cracks open the heart of the classic children’s ballet to uncover drugs, sex, family secrets and all the other delights that make the Holidays so special. Little ballerina Clara is now a rebellious teen. Her disdain for her bourgeois family is challenged when her uncle Drosselmeyer takes her back in time to early 1980s New York. There, she discovers the seamy underground club scene and her family's untold history. Echoes of the original Tchaikovsky score mix with contemporary, unexpected beats to complement a range of movement from ballet to breakdance and burlesque. Ms. Harriell's interpretation is a dark, witty and satirical homage to (and cautionary tale about) the excesses of nightlife.
The past three year's runs have inspired such celebrity and critical praise as:
"Nutcracker was great, very impressive!" -- Moby
“It sure isn't your New York City Ballet Nutcracker, but it's a hell of a lot more fun... classic elegance peppered with contemporary grit.” -- Kerri Allen, Backstage.com
"...the brilliant Angela Harriell...could be the next Susan Stroman." -- Richmond Shepard, Performing Arts INSIDER, totaltheater.com and lively-arts.com
“Angela Harriell has created a unique and intriguing work that is at once an elegant homage to Tchaikovsky’s original, a sly send up of New York in the 1980s and today, and a showcase for her considerable talents as a choreographer and dramatist and her cast as dancers and actors.” -- Byrne Harrison, Stagebuzz.com
Angela Harriell is an accomplished choreographer, crafting dance numbers with narratives that are simultaneously autobiographical and universal. A graduate of Fredonia University, she has worked with Elisa Monte and David Brown dance, Randy James Danceworks, and Binghamton University. Since moving to New York and founding The Love Show in 2002, Angela’s work has been seen at The Flea Theater, HERE theater, The New York Burlesque Festival, White Wave Dance Festival, The Philly Fringe Festival’s Late Night Cabaret, and different nightclubs throughout New York. She has also set and directed two Off-Off-Broadway productions, the most recent, Nutcracker: Rated R, selling out runs in 2006, 2007 and 2008. A piece from the show was selected to be presented at the National Arts Club, where Angela performed as part of a special gala with such luminaries as Elaine Stritch, Tammy Grimes, Charles Busch and Julie Halston. Angela recently finished a stint performing as a Hammerstein Beauty at Simon Hammerstein’s notorious downtown supper club, The Box, as well as runs with Brooklyn Ballet, Brooklyn Repertory Opera and Opéra Français de New York. She has been spotted amongst the glitterati in the pages of Patrick McMullan’s website. Angela has also appeared in several television and music video spots, with the most recent being an ABC Primetime documentary on connections in the dance world. Angela has performed with such legendary recording artists as Gloria Gaynor, Shannon, France Joli, Peaches and Herb, Sugar Hill Gang, The Trammps and Bonnie Pointer.
Theater for the New City is a Pulitzer Prize-winning community cultural center known for its high artistic standards and widespread community service. Its Presenting Program provides a showcase for performing groups without a permanent base. Mabou Mines, the Living Theater, Bread and Puppet Theater, and the TEBA Group, are among the companies that have been presented by TNC.
December 17–31. Mondays-Saturdays: 8pm. Saturday, December 19: 3pm. $20 Adult. $15 Student/Senior. (Saturday matinée special: pay- what-you-will.) No shows on December 24, 25.
Running time: 90 minutes.
Theater for the New City
The Johnson Theater
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Streets)
New York, NY 10003
Nearby subway lines: L (First Avenue), R/W (8th Street), 6 (Astor Place)
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Leonidas Loizides is proud to announce the production of another Greek tragedy written by Euripides, Troades. The performance is scheduled to tour in USA from 18/9/2009 till 30/11/2009. The warm response that Vakhes met from every American state they were presented during 2008 induces the theatrical scheme with the moral obligation to stay loyal to the initial task, which is the continuous, intercultural contact of the audience around the world with the Greek heritage, through the poetry of Euripides.
The play will be presented in the Greek and/or English language with English hyper-titles. The rendering and translation of the text is made by Michael Kakoyiannis. The great director shared the vision of Leonidas thus trusted him with his translation of “Trojan Women”. The music of the performance is by itself an element that makes this production appealing, since Mikis Theodorakis, the world famous composer, a Greek symbol of culture, honors Leonidas Loizides by enriching the play with the music he has written for the film Troades in 1965 (directed by Michalis Kakogiannis). This musical composition will be used on a theatre scene for the first time thus forming a bridge between the arts of cinema and theatre. The production is organized by PAIDEIA and its director Ilias Tomazos with the support of SAE and its director Theodoros Spyropoulos as well as HANC and its director Manolis Velivasakis (Hellenic American National Council) and Theodoros Laliotis, President of the Hellenic Federation of Northern California and Board member of SAE-USA and HANC.. It is also supported by Mr. Andreas Dimitriou, Ministrer of Education and Culture of Cypriot Democracy.
Troades is a tragedy pointing out that in the war there are neither winners nor losers. However, even t
..Hey Nutcracker: Rated R! If you happen to be in Los Angeles this December...
..The Nutcracker Electronique Goes LIVE in LA This Christmas!..
For the first time ever, The Santa Monica Contemporary Ballet and EarthWalk Dance Company will be presenting The Nutcracker Electronique live in Los Angeles December 18-21, 2008! ..
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..I've created three brand new tracks for the performance. One of them, Pas de Deux, is up on MySpace right now!..
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The fully animated WASP FLIGHT Video is Finally Out and a complete blast!! (produced by SongFire Studios)
Poor little Wendy Wasp gets chased down by a pair of horndogs lookin' for love: Yellow Chopper Wasp and Jet Green Wasp. Little do they know, someone else wants all three of them for dinner. Who's coming out on top?
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