A Christmas Nutcracker Story to Make You Feel #AllTheFeels
A merry, happy, holly-jolly Christmas to everyone celebrating!
This is one of those days when—as we sit in a pile of wrapping paper debris, snuggly in our snowflake onesies, eating delicious cookies and celebrating the end (or near-end) of an insane Nutcracker season—we can’t help but be intensely grateful for all the good things in our lives. It’s a day for feeling feelings.
And here’s a dance story that—partly because it involves people who aren’t able to enjoy the comforts of home on Christmas—might make you shed a holiday tear or two.
Today, Lincoln Center is hosting a broadcast of New York City Ballet’s production of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker. It’s not the first time this has happened; the Nut performance has already aired twice in U.S. theaters over the past few weeks as part of the Lincoln Center at the Movies series.
But today’s broadcast is different. It’s being beamed to about 400,000 members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families, who are serving abroad in 175 countries and U.S. territories.
So, nearly half a million service men and women—people spending Christmas in Afghanistan and Iraq and even on naval ships in the middle of the ocean—will have their holidays brightened by one of the world’s greatest ballets, danced by some of the world’s greatest artists.
Snow has never made us feel so warm inside. (NYCB in Nutcracker; photo by Paul Kolnik)
Goodness, I must have a Christmas cookie crumb stuck in my eye. You too? So weird.
Happy holidays, everyone.
