Cal Performances presents The Hard Nut by the Mark Morris Dance Group

The holiday’s most delectable sugar plum, Mark Morris’s The Hard Nut returns to Cal Performances. "Seriously entertaining, gorgeously danced, and improbably touching. It deepens our love of the original [Nutcracker]and makes us smile and marvel at the outrageous originality of Morris’s genius in retelling it” " (San Francisco Chronicle), this Bay Area favorite is filled with humor and wit by way of dancing Barbie dolls, go-go boots, G.I. Joe soldiers, leaping snowflakes and inspired cross-gender casting—all set to Tchaikovsky’s glorious Nutcracker score and comic-book sets based on the drawings of artist Charles Burns. Maestro Robert Cole will conduct the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra along with The Children of the Piedmont Choirs Ensemble. “The ‘Waltz of the Snowflakes’ alone is worth the price of a ticket” (The Guardian).

Mark Morris Dance Group performs The Hard Nut with The Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Robert Cole, conductor, and; the Children of the Piedmont Children's Choirs, Robert Geary, director.