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2021-10-26T05:01:31.329Z


Shortly before the astronaut Matthias Maurer takes off into space, the Saarland State Theater is also in space fever. At the premiere of the ballet “The Nutcracker” this Saturday (October 30th), the Nutcracker is an astronaut who dances around the Christmas tree with colored robots on the stage. “Weightlessness in space travel parallels the lightness of ballet.


Shortly before the astronaut Matthias Maurer takes off into space, the Saarland State Theater is also in space fever.

At the premiere of the ballet “The Nutcracker” this Saturday (October 30th), the Nutcracker is an astronaut who dances around the Christmas tree with colored robots on the stage.

“Weightlessness in space travel parallels the lightness of ballet.

Saarbrücken - Combining the two has seemed very appealing to me for years, ”said Ballet Director Stijn Celis of the German Press Agency in Saarbrücken.

The native Saarland bricklayer is scheduled to fly from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral in Florida to the International Space Station ISS on Sunday (October 31).

The 51-year-old will then be the twelfth German in space and the fourth German on the ISS.

Maurer is taking a polo shirt with him on his flight that costume designer Laura Theiss designed especially for his mission, Celis said.

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With the ballet you can feel the fascination of the universe: "Our ballet" The Nutcracker "is a festival of colors, the senses, dance and boundlessness," said Celis.

How did he get the idea for the staging?

"I grew up in the Congo and watched the moon landing there in 1969 with fascination in front of the television. Since then, space and space travel have not let go of me," he said.

At the beginning of 2020, the idea occurred to him to turn the nutcracker into an astronaut.

His "nutcracker" is at home in the universe and therefore not a Saarland variant.

The fact that Maurer flies into space only shortly after the premiere is “an unbelievable coincidence”.

"The Nutcracker" is a popular ballet fairy tale that comes on stage in several houses to the music of Peter Tchaikovsky before Christmas.

It's the story of a dream: Daughter Marie is given a nutcracker who is actually a prince - and who takes her on a dream trip.

dpa

Source: merkur

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