Just in: Berlin bans Nutracker – it’s racist, apparently
NewsThe Staatsballett Berlin has quietly removed Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker from its year-end programme.
Director Christiane Theobald says it contains a Chinese dance and an oriental dance that amount to ‘a clear case of racism’ – even more so since the Berlin production follows Tchaikovsky’s 1892 original.
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In addition, according to a podcast by the State Ballet, the audience is not yet ready to properly understand what it is seeing on stage.
Does Germany’s new Green cultural commissar have anything to do with this?
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