The Nutcracker, op. 71 by Tchaikovsky, P. I., čt 22 pro 2022, Od (2022/2022), NTM Tanzhaus, Mannheim, Germany

A Christmas in the dance world without Tchaikovsky's »Nutcracker«? Unthinkable! How nice that a Mannheim version of the fairy tale ballet will be created again this winter. Based on the classic template, Stephan Thoss creates a Christmas family story with childlike anticipation of the annual flood of gifts, parental concern for perfection and a seductive journey through a bizarre dream world. For a particularly individual touch, the whole thing is paired with the spirit of another Christmas classic: on the occasion of the 99th birthday of the humorist Loriot in November 2022, Thoss is converting his Nutcracker adaptation into a real »Nutcracker«, in which there are 9.9 puzzles aka quotes well-known sketches by Loriot are to be discovered - the audience itself is allowed to 'crack a nut'.