Dance this Week: Alina Cojocaru, Liz Gerring and an Alternative “Nutcracker”

Dance this Week: Alina Cojocaru, Liz Gerring and an Alternative “Nutcracker”

The Hard Nut and Mark Morris

Of all the many “Nutcracker” productions I’ve seen, this is one of only two (with Alexei Ratmansky’s for American Ballet Theater) to play Tchaikovsky’s score complete in the correct order; and (unlike Ratmansky’s) it has a live choir for the wordless snowflakes sequence.