Let’s discuss the WH Nutcracker Christmas video

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So the blue dress dancer I assume is Clara? But no Sugar Plum Fairy?

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Anonymous wrote:I think the dancers were good, but they really, really wanted to make sure we understood the performance was queer coded and POCmaxxing. They should have also made sure we understood that it was a holiday performance and spent some time thinking about how to make it warm and gauzy. It feels lazy to put out poor quality productions, heavy on the use of dancing "oppressed" people and then just call everyone racist when they watch it and predictably ask wtf.

Well said. Note, all the responses to negative criticism insist the critic must be "racist." It's all so completely predictable and tiresome.

Where was the queer coding? I must have missed that. This is dance and theatre and jazz/swing. All those things have loads and loads of queerness inherent in them and always have, just not acknowledged, I would suggest.

Late in live, I am amazed how many of the authors and such we learned in high school were not straight or cis gender.

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Anonymous wrote:I love it. That dance troupe is really fabulous. Do you know them? They are based in NYC. So joyous. Tap dancing is infectious.

Thanks for sharing. I’ve watched it twice. So nice to see something that makes me smile instead of cry.

No, they are not fabulous. The dancing is very amateurish.

Your opinion carries no more weight than ours. I think they were fabulous!

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Anonymous wrote:The negativity has more to do with the color of the skin of the dancers.

Oh, there you are!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wonderful!

Upbeat, colorful and fun.

+1 loved it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the blue dress dancer I assume is Clara? But no Sugar Plum Fairy?

Maybe the guy with a giant flower on his head was the Sugar Plum Fairy?

I was confused by the Rat King, I thought it was a deer with antlers. The rat king was wearing a dark suit. At the end, the Rat King plays air guitar and collapses in Christmas fueled ecstasy.

I believe the owner of the dance company appears briefly in a dark suit and whips a large candy cane around for a few seconds, it seemed odd she had no costume on. Just a regular pant suit.

The part where they were tap dancing on carpet was odd- the point of tap is to tap. They were tapping on carpet and it was quiet.

[Anonymous]

Loved it! It's so good to have a first lady who actually likes people again!

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Anonymous wrote:The negativity has more to do with the color of the skin of the dancers.

No. It's that the leadership of the dance troupe is an insane leftist.

Talent doesn’t equal IQ or intellect or even common sense.
If all those artistic talents stopped talking politics and social issues we would enjoy art so much more!

[Anonymous]

Last year I think they did something similar with ballet...two dancers. That was lovely, but this was a fun change.

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Anonymous wrote:Loved it! It's so good to have a first lady who actually likes people again!

+100

Dr. Jill loves people! Except for her ailing husband, and those in law enforcement (looking at you, cheesy Anti-Police Dance Team!)

[Anonymous]

I felt the trees - all white trees that even had white lights - excessively evoked a foreboding, toxic whiteness, which put me very much ill at ease. But that is more on the First Lady than the dance troupe.

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Anonymous wrote:I felt the trees - all white trees that even had white lights - excessively evoked a foreboding, toxic whiteness, which put me very much ill at ease. But that is more on the First Lady than the dance troupe.

Are you for real?
Do you feel foreboding in the toxically white kitchen in your mama's house too?

[Anonymous]

This dance was fun and refreshing.

Our diversity is our strength.

Some old farts here wanted Fred and Ginger because…. They white.

[Anonymous]

I love tap dancing. Didn't love this. It was...... creepy.

Your tax dollars at work, folks!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:I like it. It’s zippy and happy and fun.

Agree - modern and fresh.