David Parker and the Bang Group: Nut/Cracked December 18, 2010

Renowned throughout the world for outstanding integration of comedy and innovative contemporary dance, David Parker and the Bang Group create 'Nut/cracked,' a vaudeville-inspired work that uses wickedly non-traditional recordings as well as traditional recordings of Tchaikovsky's score by Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller and Fred Waring. Nothing is sacred as 'Nut/cracked' twists, yanks and melds various dance traditions into an ode to American eclecticism, which honors the power of the human urge to dance as it reinvents this Yuletide perennial.