They didn’t even use his music. They danced like brain-damaged crash dummies. So horrible, I just had to share it.
Dancing?
Is that what they were doing?
Not even close.
If Fred Astaire’s brain short circuited every 10 seconds or so, you’d have a rough approximation of these utterly awful dancers. Their interpretation of the Nutcracker was in name only; it could have been any atonal mishmash. Their costumes were taken from the trash bins of 50 years of high school plays, and their facial expressions resembled people having a colonoscopy. It was just bloody awful in every way, and we the taxpayers are on the hook for whatever that shanda cost.
Duke Ellington - Dance of the Floreadores (Waltz of the Flowers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu4S_Hlbrnk
It was there, but barely recognizable. It was as though they thought that the Tchaikovsky estate would sue them for what they did. Nothing of E.T.A Hoffman’s story survived.