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RACE Dance Collective, a visionary group that makes dancers, sustains dancers, and gives back to OKC through performance and community outreach, is performing Hip-Hop Nutcracker this holiday season.
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo and Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress and singer Kristin Chenoweth will be among the honorees during the Oklahoma Governor’s Arts Awards at the Oklahoma Capitol at 4 p.m. Tuesday.
On the Town: Merry Christmas week, everyone! By: Lillie-Beth Brinkman The Journal Record December 18, 2020
Lillie-Beth Brinkman
It has been an unusual year, to say the least, and I have been missing some of the big holiday gatherings that we all love, especially friends, family and hugs. But even though we can’t gather safely in person this year, let’s gather with the people in our house and enjoy great, local entertainment on our TV screens. Here’s a roundup of things to watch this week to keep the spirit of Christmas going.
The locally produced, written and filmed holiday hip hop movie Finding Carlos is streaming on deadCenter Film Festival’s website and in certain theaters through the end of the month. My good friend Lance McDaniel is director, and he and Melissa Scaramucci wrote the script, which includes dancers from across the state and modern versions of several
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Katelyn Howard: “Finding Carlos” is based on “Hip Hop Nutcracker,” a production by the RACE Dance Collective in Oklahoma City, which puts a modern twist on Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet, but the COVID-19 pandemic prevented it from going on the stage this year. What led you to adapt this story for the screen?
Lance McDaniel: So the founder of RACE Dance is Hui Cha Poos, and she created the “Hip Hop Nutcracker.” Every year, they would go into Oklahoma City Public Schools and teach free dance classes, and then the performance at the end of the semester was the “Hip Hop Nutcracker.” So it s a little different every year because they would learn different dances at the different schools, but the main story was instead of Clara, it s a boy Carlos meeting his father for the first time and going on the adventure. She came to me and said, “Lance, we cannot do our ‘Hip Hop Nutcracker.’ Will you do a movie”? And I m like, “100%, I m in no matter what.”