What Nutcracker means to you?

Of course anyone can watch the Modern Nutcracker and see a performance - they can see the artistry, the beauty, the meaning. Yet there is something in this particular performance that truly sets the Modern Nutcracker apart from any other show, and this is the spirit of the performers. Within the cast of the Nutcracker, you will find a group of devoted individuals that don’t view the Nutcracker as a show, but as an entire season, as a feeling, an experience. When the cast steps into the roles of Klara, or Sugar Plum, or just a person on the street those emotions and those feelings absorb the dancer and there is no experience that can equal it. The Modern Nutcracker is feeling the pain of the homeless, knowing the hate of the public, yet still believing in this magical hope where a little girl can be transported from a dismal cardboard box on the side of the street to a warm and inviting wonderland where the love of a mother and father is freely given. The Modern Nutcracker is more than a Christmas party, or girls in frilly dresses, it is our call to love our neighbors and to extend the welcoming hand of friendship to even those we cannot fully understand because “in the end, only kindness matters”.  

Hailey