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Article: ST. PETERSBURG STATE ICE BALLET: NUTCRACKER ON ICE.(Kennedy Center, New York, New York)(Review)
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- Dance Magazine
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- December 1, 1999
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At first it's familiar: Tchaikovsky's score, party guests in petticoats, and second-act divertissements representing different nations. But when the St. Petersburg State Ice Ballet brings its version of The Nutcracker to the Kennedy Center this month, there's one essential difference: a cast that is not en pointe but on blades. Momentum adds magic to the fairy tale.
In 1892 Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov premiered the original Nutcracker in St. Petersburg. As the twentieth century draws to a close, our fascination with faster cars, faster computers, and faster communication finds an apt metaphor in this version of the Nutcracker--one that literally whirls by. This ...