“I’m not Heat Miser, I’m Snow Miser,” I informed her, covers pulled up to my chin (a lie, I actually am Heat Miser, just with someone else).A later legend says that in 1844, Alexandre Dumas (of “The Three Musketeers” and “The Count of Monte Cristo” fame) adapted the story on the spot for a younger audience. At a holiday party to which his daughter had been invited, a band of children tied Dumas to a chair after he had nodded off, demanding an impromptu story. He wrote the same story down for publication, and the version of “The Nutcracker” most audiences are familiar with today was born of Dumas’ “L’histoire d’un casse noisette.”
Nearly 50 years later, the Russian Imperial Theatre’s director hired Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa, the chief ballet master, to collaborate on a new commission based on the French story he had read. Tchaikovsky accepted the offer to write the now-famous score, but only so he could also work on his opera “Iolanta,” which debuted on a double bill that same night. He reportedly wrote the music to the Grand Pas de Deux on a bet (his friend wagered that he could not write a piece of music based on the notes of the octave in sequence). Ballet master Petipa fell ill for the duration of rehearsals, and the real choreographic work fell to his assistant.
Because Tchaikovsky’s and Petipa’s previous collaboration, ”The Sleeping Beauty,” had been so successful, “The Nutcracker” sold out on opening night, Dec. 18, 1892. Reactions to the new ballet were varied. The czar himself was delighted with the performance; however, it was deemed foolish by critics and audience members — too childish for adults, with no clear connection between the first and second acts. The music was dismissed as “too symphonic,” and even Tchaikovsky’s brother criticized the original sugar plum fairy, Antoinette Dell’Era, calling her “pudgy” and “corpulent.”
Some years after the failure of the opening performance, at the onset of the 1905 Russian Revolution, dancers in the Maryinsky theatre largely fled Russia. The original “Nutcracker” prince, Sergei Legat, fell out with authorities and slit his throat. The ballet and its dancers were all but forgotten. When the Maryinsky dancers were forced to scatter across Europe, they introduced a great deal of Russian high culture to the West, including, eventually, “The Nutcracker.” In 1927, it showed up in Budapest. By 1934 it had made its way to London, and 10 years later, the San Francisco Ballet staged its own version, based on the original choreography.And Cotillard gives another Oscar-worthy performance in her latest film, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s “Two Days, One Night.” The actress plays Sandra, a working-class woman facing unemployment who pops Xanax all too frequently. Sandra is overcoming a bout of depression and feels she needs the drug to steel herself; she must convince a majority of her co-workers to vote against collecting a bonus so she can keep her job.
Making the first request, over the phone, she contorts her body in a physical manifestation of pain and despair. The actress moves seamlessly from crying jags to—in one of her rare moments of happiness—singing. A scene where Sandra questions her supportive husband about their relationship shows the extremes of her insecurity and anxiety.The two have gone back and forth before, but their latest round of online sparring attracted more than just an audience. Why sit back and watch two artists tear each other apart on social media when you can jump in and vent a little year-end stress, too? On Saturday, industry veteran Q-Tip decided to weigh in with a little Hip Hop 101, in case they don’t teach the core curriculum Down Under. His incredibly earnest attempt to engage the 24-year-old Australian on the socioeconomic and political roots of the genre the acclaimed Tribe Called Quest co-founder now finds himself sharing with the “Fancy” emcee is eaten up by fans, but fails to impress the target:
@IGGYAZALEA HipHop is a artistic and socio-political movement/culture that sprang from the disparate ghettos of NY in the early 70's
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) December 20, 2014
“I’m not Heat Miser, I’m Snow Miser,” I informed her, covers pulled up to my chin (a lie, I actually am Heat Miser, just with someone else).A later legend says that in 1844, Alexandre Dumas (of “The Three Musketeers” and “The Count of Monte Cristo” fame) adapted the story on the spot for a younger audience. At a holiday party to which his daughter had been invited, a band of children tied Dumas to a chair after he had nodded off, demanding an impromptu story. He wrote the same story down for publication, and the version of “The Nutcracker” most audiences are familiar with today was born of Dumas’ “L’histoire d’un casse noisette.”
Nearly 50 years later, the Russian Imperial Theatre’s director hired Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa, the chief ballet master, to collaborate on a new commission based on the French story he had read. Tchaikovsky accepted the offer to write the now-famous score, but only so he could also work on his opera “Iolanta,” which debuted on a double bill that same night. He reportedly wrote the music to the Grand Pas de Deux on a bet (his friend wagered that he could not write a piece of music based on the notes of the octave in sequence). Ballet master Petipa fell ill for the duration of rehearsals, and the real choreographic work fell to his assistant.
Because Tchaikovsky’s and Petipa’s previous collaboration, ”The Sleeping Beauty,” had been so successful, “The Nutcracker” sold out on opening night, Dec. 18, 1892. Reactions to the new ballet were varied. The czar himself was delighted with the performance; however, it was deemed foolish by critics and audience members — too childish for adults, with no clear connection between the first and second acts. The music was dismissed as “too symphonic,” and even Tchaikovsky’s brother criticized the original sugar plum fairy, Antoinette Dell’Era, calling her “pudgy” and “corpulent.”
Some years after the failure of the opening performance, at the onset of the 1905 Russian Revolution, dancers in the Maryinsky theatre largely fled Russia. The original “Nutcracker” prince, Sergei Legat, fell out with authorities and slit his throat. The ballet and its dancers were all but forgotten. When the Maryinsky dancers were forced to scatter across Europe, they introduced a great deal of Russian high culture to the West, including, eventually, “The Nutcracker.” In 1927, it showed up in Budapest. By 1934 it had made its way to London, and 10 years later, the San Francisco Ballet staged its own version, based on the original choreography.And Cotillard gives another Oscar-worthy performance in her latest film, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s “Two Days, One Night.” The actress plays Sandra, a working-class woman facing unemployment who pops Xanax all too frequently. Sandra is overcoming a bout of depression and feels she needs the drug to steel herself; she must convince a majority of her co-workers to vote against collecting a bonus so she can keep her job.
Making the first request, over the phone, she contorts her body in a physical manifestation of pain and despair. The actress moves seamlessly from crying jags to—in one of her rare moments of happiness—singing. A scene where Sandra questions her supportive husband about their relationship shows the extremes of her insecurity and anxiety.The two have gone back and forth before, but their latest round of online sparring attracted more than just an audience. Why sit back and watch two artists tear each other apart on social media when you can jump in and vent a little year-end stress, too? On Saturday, industry veteran Q-Tip decided to weigh in with a little Hip Hop 101, in case they don’t teach the core curriculum Down Under. His incredibly earnest attempt to engage the 24-year-old Australian on the socioeconomic and political roots of the genre the acclaimed Tribe Called Quest co-founder now finds himself sharing with the “Fancy” emcee is eaten up by fans, but fails to impress the target:
@IGGYAZALEA HipHop is a artistic and socio-political movement/culture that sprang from the disparate ghettos of NY in the early 70's
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) December 20, 2014
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