Nutcracker Updates!!

Oh em gee I forgot to tell you all about the finale! I’m super hexcited about it! Basically, this year’s Nutcracker is much better than it’s ever been before in the ballet club. We have totally revamped costumes and choreography, and I feel great about basically every dance except the super super beginner one but theyre beginners so what are you gonna do. Last year our “finale” was bowing by class year to a pop song :/// Nobody liked our president last year; she was basically holding us back from being great. Anyways, Finale is an actual Thing this year, with the Act II soloists coming back and doing little excerpts from their dances. I’m also there, but only as Flower Corps ☹️ It bruises my pride a little, but it’s ok. I still have a really high profile solo—a SOLO SOLO, most of other solos are “leads” with other dancers on stage at the same time. Except Clara and Nutcracker, but that obviously doesn’t count because they’re special. I wish I got to be Spanish—I actually could have made myself Spanish lead since I’m choreographing it, but I already got to do that in freshman year and want to give someone else an opportunity to shine. I wonder if I’ll teach Spanish again next year. A huge majority of eboard/high profile members of the club are graduating this year and I’m lowkey freaking out because then who’s going to run the corps rehearsals??? If I have to deal with the beginners in Party I’ll have a conniption. I could do Flowers—I know the choreo super well since we’ve had it done for a long time already and have been cleaning. 

I’m off topic, let’s get back to it. I’m most excited about the end of finale. We have two Claras—act I and act II. Pretty sure we do this to be easier on the dancers/offer more people roles, but now we have a story reason for it! We’ll lean into one Clara being the “reality Clara” and the other one being the “dream Clara”.  There’s a Clara switch between Battle and Snow. We’ll have them switch back during finale, and the reality Clara waves goodbye to the dream clara and then to the Nutcracker, then goes back to sleep on her couch… then she wakes up and sees the nutcracker (prop) besides her! And the music gets really big and she dances around with the nutcracker AND THEN IN THE BACKGROUND THE DREAM CLARA AND NUTCRACKER (DANCER) DANCE ACROSS THE BACK OF THE STAGE BECAUSE ITS WHAT REAL CLARA IS IMAGINING IN HER HEAD. AS SHE DANCES WITH THE NUTCRACKER DOLL. DO YOU SEE THE VISION. DO YOU SEE IT. DO YOU SEE IT?!?!?!?!?!? The Claras get to be actual main characters instead of only being in Party and Battle and like… I don’t remember what the other one is, Snow? That was how it was before, but now we END ON CLARA HOLDING THE NUTCRACKER WHILE THE MUSIC GETS REALLY BIG AND AUSGWKDHWKDBWNDBFKE ITS SOOOOOO GOOD IM SO SO SO HEXCITED RAHHHHHHHHHH