Writer - Performer - Emcee

Clara Takes Flight: An Aerial Nutcracker

Story Adapted by Dan Burkey and Maria Hackbarth

Aerial Unicycle and Fight Choreography by Dan Burkey

Produced by Warped Dance Company, 2017-2022

Videography by First Star Media

In this production, I devised an alternate reality version of the Nutcracker story where everyone in the Land of Imagination can fly. Clara is about to be crowned queen after heroically rescuing the Prince, and Drosselmeyer has to save the ceremony from mischievous clowns and prevent a second rat uprising.

As Drosselmeyer, I served as the emcee and storyteller, invented a new form of aerial unicycling, and choreographed a comedic fight scene.

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