The Nutcracker At Wethersfield Trailer

The Nutcracker At Wethersfield Trailer - official movie trailer HD

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00:00I had always done The Nutcracker ever since I was 12.

00:06It's in my bones. It's in my blood.

00:09The Nutcracker is actually the catalyst that brought me into the art form.

00:18The idea of no live performance for the foreseeable future is really daunting,

00:24especially when you've worked your whole life on this craft.

00:30Ashley and I were like, we have to do something.

00:33I asked them to come and see Wethersfield.

00:36Troy said, oh my god, are we in the set of The Nutcracker?

00:39That was really when the spark started to fly.

00:44Troy has this vision of bringing people inside the dance,

00:48and I really don't think that's ever been done before.

00:51What if we can create something new that gives people this really special moment

00:55in a year that we've had so few?

00:57I just had to be upfront with everybody about the risk involved.

01:01We can't promise you that we're going to make it through to the end.

01:04One, two, three, four.

01:07The idea of being with my colleagues again and dancing, I was like, yes, I'm there.

01:13Oh my god.

01:16Putting a group of dancers together for weeks and creating this, no one else is doing that.

01:23This felt radically different and almost like a little crazy.

01:26There's a lot you can't control.

01:28Oh, okay.

01:30Kind of the poetic beauty of this is that if we pull this off,

01:34but it'll actually be the Nutcracker that comes to life to save all of us.

01:39It's showtime, people.

01:43I just did this all to try to give everybody work and to give them purpose,

01:48but there's no substitute for being in front of an audience and dancing.

01:52My mom actually danced with New York City Ballet.

01:57She always said it wasn't about being on stage alone.

02:00There is some, like, really huge sense of community.

02:05There's always a bit of Nutcracker magic giving us some hope.