Buttcracker II...More Crack! Rocks Seattle this Holiday Season
Lovers of rock, rejoice! Last year's sold-out dance performance that delighted those on the naughty list returns December, 2016. Behold: Buttcracker II...more crack! Producers Diana Cardiff, Jana Hill, Sara Jinks, and Matt Mulkerin reignite the "artful mix of professional dance and raunchy satire," (The Seattle Times) which not only kept the spirit of the rock concert alive and well, "but successfully captured the communal spirit of the holiday season" (SeattleDances) with completely sold-out shows.
Set to music inspired by beloved hair-metal songs, this year's new acts will include a cell-block tango inspired by an angsty, juvenile Clara; a birthday celebration for Jesus (overseen by God himself, Seattle's Wade Madsen in a melodramatic multimedia performance); plus ragdolls romping, "drunkels" (drunk uncles) drinking; and the origin of how Santa and Mrs. Claus met and fell in love. Buttcracker II...more crack! will rock one's pants off, capturing the Christmas spirit, and regurgitating it back at audiences with reckless abandon. Audience member and local actor/director, Ian Bell, gave the show "two thumbs up .. .plus two index fingers and two pinkies..."
Buttcracker is unique amongst Seattle's idiosyncratic holiday-dance brethren. "Nothing's been done quite like this," said Diana Cardiff, a producer who is also choreographing and performing. "It's a celebration of the holidays with the feel of being at a rock concert, except that it's dance combined with 'the Christmas spirit' and altered in kind of a gritty way where it's not always pretty."
In addition to cherished Christmas traditions such as The Nutcracker ballet, the show dips into the best of Buttrock Suites, the producers' original dance series whose popularity reached a fever pitch in the early 2000s. With well-known Seattle choreographers/performers such as Alex Martin, Juliet Waller Pruzan, Wade Madsen, these shows consistently sold out Velocity, Bumbershoot, Neumos, and Triple Door, to name a few.
Buttcracker II...more crack! will include performances by guest and VIP performers such as Richard Ayres, Mark J. Kane, Jess Klein, Karen de Luna, and Gabrielle Nomura Gainor.
The Buttcracker II...more crack!
7:30 pm., Dec. 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 2016
Tickets:
Advance general admission $25/student $20/door $28
1st Thursday preview ONLY general admission $20/$15 students
Available for purchase at https://www.strangertickets.com/events/35409026/buttcracker-iimore-crack
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