Just in time for the holiday season, No President by the Nature Theater of Oklahoma scores this performance to Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. Onstage, the actors construct a complex storyline of security guard dramatics, miming a tale of rival companies, best friends, and love triangles. When conflicts arise, they are only intensified by the narrator’s commentary and cannibalism. Behind all this drama lies the mysterious red curtain, which the guards must protect at all costs.
RELATED EVENTS
RELATED EVENTS
- Thu Dec 5 – Sat Dec 7, 2024
Nature Theater of Oklahoma: No President
- Dance
- Skirball Presents
- Theater
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Recommended readings to get you in gear for the show.
- Campbell Robertson, Theater Team Makes an Ally of Random Circumstance (2008)
- Donald Crafton, Pie and Chase: Gag, Spectacle and Narrative in Slapstick Comedy (2006)
- Edward Nye, Review: Beyond Ballet in the Ballet d’Action
- (2012)
- Marion Kant, Ivor Guest, The establishment of the ballet d’action (2024)
- Racher Anderson-Raburn, The Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s Aesthetics of Fun (2010)
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Made Up of Time and Energy
Notes on choreographic aspects in the work of Nature Theater of Oklahoma
ABOUT PAVOL & KELLY
“Our work has evolved from a preoccupation with the most basic form and function of theater.”
‘Let’s Make a Dance.’ At Nature Theater, the Body Rules.
In “No President,” Nature Theater of Oklahoma creates its version of a story ballet, one burpee at a time.
INTERVIEW Nature Theater of Oklahoma
“Will it be a show if there is no script? If we just stand there in front of a curtain? If we open the curtain, is it then a show?”
