Innovative, traditional, fun: Carlos Acosta’s Nutcracker in Havana
There is a lot to like. It delights in so many ways. Filled with colour and energy, it’s guaranteed to put a smile on the face
There is a lot to like. It delights in so many ways. Filled with colour and energy, it’s guaranteed to put a smile on the face
Choreographer-director Carlos Acosta, and video and set designer Nina Dunn, talk about Acosta Danza’s forthcoming new Nutcracker in Havana
A show that will, in his own words, have the “colour, feel and vibrancy of Havana with the tradition and beauty of The Nutcracker.”
The 2024-25 season also includes a new work by William Forysythe as part of a Forsythe evening, and both the company’s Giselles.
Bridget Breiner shifts the action to early 20th-century America. The all-new choreography is refreshingly classical, the ballet a showcase for technique
A hugely enjoyable interpretation told with lots of imagination. A convincing telling that sends you away with a big, happy smile
Momoko Hirata and Mathias Digman lit up the stage in the grand pas de deux. ‘Polished’ does not do them justice. Hirata sparkled like a cut diamond
It is great fun; a show that will delight dance lovers and music lovers, young and old alike. The time flies. The dance comes pretty much non-stop
Akira Akiyama allies strength with a lovely soft delicacy. She finds remarkable lightness is everything as she speaks with her whole body
A Nutcracker that provides all that is expected in an entertaining evening that left the audience very happy.
Julia Conway, still only a Soloist, fully showed her potential, presenting a Sugar Plum Fairy variation with many new challenging technical steps