NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet has featured the Land of Peace and Harmony in Act II, traditionally called the Land of Sweets, and the Dove of Peace since their first 1993 North American tour. Hailing from dance capitals of over 11 nations, the NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet company dances from NYC to LA, for world peace, as they have done since that first tour.
“This acclaimed version of the perennial ballet [the Nutcracker] includes some special touches… when two dancers become one as The Dove of Peace, a “bird” with a 20-foot wingspan, in a prayer for World Peace.” Chicago Tribune, Chicago, 2013
The “Dove of Peace,” which replaces the traditional Sugar Plum Fairy role, was inspired by Bolshoi Ballet Principal danseur Stanislov Vlasov, who was choreographer/balletmaster of Talmi Entertainment’s inaugural 1993 NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet, and partner Lilia Sabitova, Honored as People’s Artist of Russia, when they performed their soaring choreography at Carnegie Hall and more venues around the world. NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet’s “Dove of Peace” leads heroine Clara and her Nutcracker Prince into the Land of Peace and Harmony (traditionally known as the Land of Sweets). The 2 person Dove of Peace premiered in 2012 on the 20th Anniversary Tour of the NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet and was created by NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet’s acclaimed Sergey Chumakov and Elena Petrichenko.
“NUTCRACKER! heroine, Clara, dreams not of wondrous sweets but instead visits the Land of Peace and Harmony. The twist works to expose more of her burgeoning maturity, making the journey not a childish dream but an honorable quest,” Dana Gavin Frank, The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, 2003
NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet has dedicated [25] years of annual tours of North America to advocating for World Peace. In the 1980s, during the collapse of the “Iron Curtain,” NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet producers brought the International Glasnost Festival Tours to the US featuring Prima Ballerina Assoluta Tatiana Chernobrovkina and Vadim Bondar of Stanislavski fame – the first time in many years that American audiences had seen Russian dancers on American stages. In 1993, NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet premiered in North America, the first of the annual tours performing in cities large and small across the continent. Choreographed by Bolshoi soloist Stanislav Vlasov, the production featured the “Land of Peace and Harmony,” traditionally called the Land of Sweets, and the “Dove of Peace.” The Dove of Peace and the Land of Peace and Harmony is exclusive to NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet and seen in each performance of NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet. It was first performed by a single ballerina. In 2012, NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet Principal Dancers Sergei Chumakov and Elena Petrichenko premiered the 2 person Dove of Peace with a 20-foot wing span! The NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet dancers themselves are not strangers to violence. In 2013 Soloist Olga Aru was in Tahrir Square in Egypt during the Arab Spring uprising, avoiding bullets coming in studio windows, and was soon evacuated. In 2014 Principal Ballerina Olga Kifyak was present at Ukraine’s Maidan Square advocating for peace with a White Rose of Peace. Hailing from ballet capitals across the globe, NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet artists dance from NYC to LA, for world peace, as they have done since 1993!
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