Galleria Shopping Mall, Kenya, Wanny Angerer in Moving Cultures, CULTURAL STOPOVERS Kenya Galleria Mall is proud to host Dance Centre Kenya showcase of The Nutcracker, Act II, at our main Atrium. Free of Charge! Friday December 8th, 2017 #Nutcracker Dance Centre Kenya 1pm to 1:45 / 2:30pm to 3:20pm 4:pm to 4:45pm and Solo dances by Saira Cacho, Vvyque Owoko and Mara Katherine McKelvey 1:45pm to 2:30pm / 3:20pm to 4pm and 4:45 to 5:30pm Featuring from CULTURAL STOPOVERS Kenya Special Solo Guest appearance by acclaimed Ballerina Saira Cacho, from Honduras, Mara Katherine McKelvey from Woodland Star International School & Vvyque Owoko from Kenya . Featuring from Dance Centre Kenya Carolina Fusillo as Clara Shamick Otieno asThe Nutcracker Kayla Hotz as the Arch Angel Lulu Heinel as the Dew Drop Fairy Oona Nary as the Sugar Plum Fairy Baris Erhan as the Sugar Plum Cavalier ACT 2 Write up: A choir of beautiful angels guards the gates to the Land of the Sweets. At the Palace, the Arch Angel and her court welcome their guests. She asks how Clara and the Nutcracker Prince have come to her court. The Nutcracker Prince re-enacts the events of their adventure to explain the magic that has brought them there. The entire court pays homage to the delighted young girl for her gallantry in saving the Nutcracker Prince from the evil Rat King and for breaking the spell. The Arch Angel declares that Clara should be crowned a princess of the Royal Court and that all should honor her with a dance. A fiery Spanish dance represents chocolate, a sultry Arabian dance represents coffee, a bright Chinese festival represents tea, a shepherdess and her lambs represent marzipan, and Russian gypsies dance with wild abandonment. Suddenly delightful candy canes dance and twirl in celebration and Clara and the Nutcracker Prince join their romp. The crystal Dew Drop Fairy accompanied by her Violets and Flowers, fill the entire ballroom with their elegant waltzing. The highlight of Clara’s journey in the Land of the Sweets is her magical transformation into the Sugar Plum Fairy, with her Nutcracker Prince acting as Cavalier. Together they dance a “Grande Pas de Deux” before the entire assemblage bids farewell to the tired young heroine. As she sleeps soundly in the arms of her godfather, he returns her to her own living room and gently places the wooden nutcracker by her head. She is awakened by her mother who leads her back to her bedroom while “visions of sugar plums dance in her head.”