Performing Arts
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Highlights: The Nutcracker Ballet
On the 2nd December 2005, the Panaga Dance Centre performed Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” Ballet to an audience of over 400 people in the MPH at the Panaga Club.
Set on Christmas Eve in Europe during the 1800s, the Nutcracker Ballet is the story of a doctor, Hans Stahlbaum and his wife who are holding a Christmas party for family, friends and their children. Clara’s godfather (a magician), Herr Drosselmeyer arrives late with special fanfare entertaining and delighting all with his exquisite mechanical dolls.
All the children receive gifts, with Fritz getting a hobby horse. Drosselmeyer presents Clara with a colourful Nutcracker which instantly enthralls her. Sibling rivalry takes hold and in a tussle to take the Nutcracker, Fritz breaks him. Drosselmeyer repairs the Nutcracker and promises that all will be well.
Evening overtakes the party and the guests depart. Clara is shooed to bed. All is quiet, or is it? Clara awakens and anxious for her Nutcracker, finds her doll and falls asleep again.
There begins her magical dream… As the tree grows, the room fills with rats, lead by an evil Rat King. The Nutcracker comes to life and engages the rats in battle. He summons his soldiers but they cannot stop the mighty Rat King. The Rat King strikes the Nutcracker who summons one last effort and kills the Rat King.
Sadly Clara takes the lifeless Nutcracker and tries to revive him. He slowly comes back to life turning into a Prince to her amazement. The dream carries her to a Magical Winter Wonderland of enchanted forests and dancing snowflakes. Then she is taken to an exotic garden in the Kingdom of the Sweets where she is entertained by a celebration of dances from different lands, Flowers, Spanish chocolates, Arabian coffee, Chinese tea, Reed Flutes and Candy Canes.
Clara awakes from her dream and finds herself by the tree with her beloved Nutcracker.
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