The Nutcracker- LAC Theater Lugano (CH)

A visual narrative made of light, matter, and imagination, premiering at LAC Theatre in Lugano from December 19 to 21, 2025.

For this project, we imagined a visual device capable of opening the stage like a constellation of worlds. Frames suspended in darkness become windows, galleries, living architectures that transform alongside the dancers. Not a backdrop, but a theatre within the theatre, where every surface becomes a threshold.

From the intimacy of a kitchen to the opulence of baroque palaces, from the red nightmare of battle to the purifying snowfall, and finally to the full eruption of imagination: each scene generates its own universe. The stage breathes, shifts, dreams. Clara’s journey unfolds through spaces that are born and dissolve, mirroring her transformation.

Credits

Choreography
Mauro Bigonzetti

Music
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Orchestra della Svizzera italiana

Conductor
Philippe Béran

Coro Clairière 

Choir director
Brunella Clerici

Performers

MM Contemporary Dance Company

Set design, lighting and video concept
Carlo Cerri

Video production
OOOPStudio

Costumes
Lois Swandale
Kristopher Millar

Costume making
Nuvia Valestri

Prop making
Studio Cromo
Attosecondo

Choreography assistant
Roberto Zamorano

Rehearsal director
Enrico Morelli

Production
LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura

In co-production with
MM Contemporary Dance Company

With the production collaboration of
Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Modena