#Geneva pa. ioff grand hall crack

It may be dark in the wings but there’s a whole lot going on there! And because it’s a really busy place, we can’t really do this more than once per performance run. With every production, we give our patrons an opportunity to come backstage with us, raise their eyes to the flies and take a good look at what’s behind the sets. So let us raise the curtain on all this for you. Haven’t you ever wondered what it’s like on the other side, when the curtain falls on a performance? How does all the technical machinery work? What do the stagehands have to do to get things back into working order? Or maybe just bump into one of the stars of the show? The performances of this revival of The Nutcracker by the Ballet du Grand Théâtre will be accompanied by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under the direction of Yannis Pouspourikas.

Marie’s Christmas visitor Drosselmeier is the crazy ringmaster of her night-time circus and the nut in which she will find the prince that needs her to set him free. Set and dressed by the Parisian fashion duo On aura tout vu (designers Livia Stoianova and Yassen Samouilov) in a baroque/gothic Christmas dream, Verbruggen’s Nutcracker gives back her original name of Marie to the young dreamer, who is both upset and fascinated by her budding womanhood. With his idiosyncratic choreographic language, he completely revisited Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece, first choreographed in St Petersburg by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov in 1892. The Belgian choreographer, who lives in Monaco, with his boundless imagination and festive, exuberant and tender vision of dance, delivered much more than just “another Nutcracker” at the Grand Théâtre in 2014. It’s therefore high time that the Geneva public got reacquainted with Jeroen Verbruggen’s version of The Nutcracker, as “dark and exciting as a witches’ coven” (Alexandre Demidoff in Le Temps). It is also one of best-loved repertoire pieces of the Geneva Ballet, with 65 performances to its credit, seen in 21 different theatres in France, Italy, Germany and Russia, with its last Geneva performance in November 2015. So this is the story of The Nutcracker, of who he is and how he became what he is.

#Geneva pa. ioff grand hall crack

Accepting one’s identity, going through an identity crisis, having several identities, looking for one’s own identity, losing oneself, finding oneself… All these things are like eating a nut: you have to crack the shell before you find what you are looking for. This story goes deep into a world where it isn’t easy to be different or to put one’s identity at stake in the diversity game. Before the Story of a Nutcracker there was the Story of a Hard Nut To Crack.

Like all good stories, this one begins with another story. As long as you have the music in your head and body, the story is happening there too. Yes him, the guy who’s waving his arms with the music, that could be Drosselmeier. This story is happening in someone’s head.