Tchaikovsky - Maurice Bejart's The Nutcracker / Bejart Ballet Lausanne

The showman of twentieth-century dance, Maurice Bejart, presents his unique version of the well-loved Christmas ballet The Nutcracker. Using Tchaikovsky's score in its entirety, augmented with popular waltz and accordion music performed on-stage by the legendary Yvette Horner, Bejart takes the original St. Petersburg story as a springboard from which to evoke the memories, emotions, and feelings of his own life's journey from a Marseille childhood. Recorded live at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris. Damaas Thijs, Elisabet Ros, Gil Roman, Juichi Kobayashi, Yvette Horner. 103 minutes.