Reimagined Nutcracker Ballet Premieres At Baltimore School For The Arts

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Baltimore, M.d. (WJZ) — The Baltimore School for the Arts is putting connected an archetypal and modern mentation of the Nutcracker ballet implicit the adjacent 2 weekends.

“It’s not the accepted [Nutcracker], what everyone thinks Nutcracker is,” said Kyleigh Johnson, a inferior playing the Sugar Plum Fairy successful the production.

The accumulation called The Nutcracker: A Magical Tale successful Mount Vernon is the brainchild of the school’s creation section head, Laura Halm Hamilton. She says the amusement is updated and includes Baltimore-inspired elements.

“We see modern exertion successful it,” said Hamilton. “So we’ve conscionable benignant of brought it to a spot wherever we anticipation it’s tangible for our audiences, particularly for our young people.”

The amusement has besides been curated with diversity, inclusion, and equity arsenic important priorities.

“So the casting is similar what we telephone colorblind casting it doesn’t substance what you look similar what your tegument colour is what your assemblage benignant is.” -said Rosiland Cauthen, the school’s director.

The amusement is acceptable successful Mount Vernon and includes influences from the vicinity similar citrus peppermint instrumentality costumes, a acceptable plan inspired by the Walter’s Art Gallery, and a Baltimore rowhome.

Students accidental they are excited to spot the amusement premiere.

“It was truly bully to spot each of these things that we were moving connected for respective months, and immoderate ideas that person been coming for years, each travel together,” said Samuel Greco, who is the maestro electrician and lightboard relation for the production.

Tickets are $20 and whitethorn beryllium purchased online.

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Here’s the docket for the show: