Television: Battle of the Nutcrackers

[casserina]

Starting tonight Ovation TV is airing six versions of the Nutcracker at 8:00

tonight: The Hard Nut

tomorrow: Balanchine's Nutcracker (with Maculay Culkin)

Tuesday: Mathew Bourne's Nutcracker

Wednesday: Bolshoi's Nutcracker

Thursday: PNB's The Nutcracker Motion Picture

Friday: Maurice Berjart's Nutcracker

 

I'll be tuning in (:

[Russina]

Kudos to you for the heads up! I've got to DVR these. Ovation is GREAT. I loved Margot the documentary.

[casserina]

We just got the station but a bunch of people have told me they air a lot of dance stuff so I'm excited

[cowgrrl]

They did this last year without the Thursday & Friday ones. I personally like the Bolshoi one the best. The Mark Morris one (The Hard Nut) was....unusual.

[crockett]

What is ovations network? I looked through all the channels on cable (we receive quite alot) and couldn't find it?

[Clara 76]

Ovation TV

 

I have Time Warner Columbus, Ohio and my Ovation is channel 108....I think.

[crockett]

Thank you, Clara.

[b1]

Channel 110

 

Ovation is a little obscure cable channel. It has some descent ballet programs, but few are new, and they repeat EVERYTHING. However, I have taped most of the ballet programs they have shown. They are wonderful for times when NOTHING good is on tv. Sadly, I miss dance on PBS the most. I haven't seen anything good on PBS for a long time (since the men of ballet program...forget the title).

 

Ovation TV

I have Time Warner Columbus, Ohio and my Ovation is channel 108....I think.

[pavlova]

Channel 274 on our Direct TV. The Bolshoi's up tonight!

[Clara 76]

Yes! 110!! Thank you, b1!!!!!

[casserina]

I loved the balanchine one but did not like the Mark Morris or Mathew Bourne, I enjoy the classical versions most (: I DVR'd Bolshoi but haven't had a chance to watch it yet.

[b1]

OMG, it is S L O W ! It is beautiful, but after watching the Balanchine version (and knowing other versions), it is so slow, it was hard to not want them to speed up!

 

I am curious about the PNB movie. Never heard of it, but it is an old version/movie (1980something).

[timedancingby]

We have seen the movie a couple of times. We enjoyed it, but part of it's appeal for us is that my dd has past and present instructors in the movie. It is more of a silent movie than a video of the ballet. PNB's version of the Nutcracker is not my favorite, but it is much better to watch live as a ballet, than a movie!

[casserina]

I think the PNB version is a bit odd. The arabian is a peacock and russian is a tribal dance and chinese dance has some odd monster come out. I've only seen bits and pieces of it though.

[b1]

I'm kind of enjoying this Bejart version.

 

I came in during the March, so I missed any commentary. What year was this done?

 

Ok, I changed my mind. It is too weird. I am not understanding the whole Boy Scout thing.