Ballet Kyiv Modern Ballet. Nutcracker. Radu Poklitaru || in Kyiv || from 30.12.2020 to 15.01.2022

“For adults, the inner world of children seems to be a carefree realm of fantasies and games.
I don’t know about you, dear viewer, but I distinctly remember how often as a child I swore to myself that when I became an adult, I must remember what it was like to be a child.
Unfortunately, it did not work out ... The loss of this knowledge is one of the main losses of our life.
Perhaps this is due to the very nature of man, the properties of her memory? But after rereading the fairy tale by ETA Hoffman "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King", I was amazed: how accurately, piercingly, and sometimes mercilessly, the great romantic analyzes the movements of the child's soul.
His research (long before Freud) removes the conditional idealization of the psychology of the child and allows one to look much deeper into the eyes of the miracle called "CHILDHOOD".
And besides, our Nutcracker is, first of all, a fairy tale.
The tale of little Marie, striving for happiness and love, of dreams that allowed her to magically travel to the house of Counselor Stahlbaum, Counselor Stahlbaum and his wife, transformed by the king's godfather and the queen of mice, and Mr. Drosselmeyer, who gave Marie a magic doll, then strangely similar to itself, about a doll (we will call her the Nutcracker), which became Marie's first true love.
And the main thing is that everything in this story turns out to be in fact not what it seems at first glance, "- Radu Poklitaru

The secret of the incredible popularity of the performance "The Nutcracker" in the audience is hidden in a magical mixture of the beauty of a fairy tale with tragedy and deep psychological nature of the production. The huge mice who threatened the happiness of lovers turn out to be their best friends. Unlike people who slowly but inexorably lead the main character to an imperceptible and terrible death.
P. I. Tchaikovsky
NUTCRACKER
Ballet in two acts