Nutcracker Dance-Along

“PORTLAND NUTCRACKER EXPERIENCE PROVIDES IDEAL ORCHESTRA CONCERT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN” - WMTW CHANNEL 8

An immersive experience for the entire family: a holiday concert where attendees dance alongside ballerinas to a symphony orchestra. Called the “ideal orchestra concert for young children,” The Nutcracker Dance-Along is an immersive experience for the whole family. Part-concert, part-dance-party, part-community celebration, attendees dance alongside ballerinas to a symphony orchestra.

 

IMMERSIVE EVENTS CAN INCLUDE

  • Nutcracker Dance-Along with Live Symphonic Orchestra and Prima Ballerinas

  • Instrument "Petting Zoo"

  • Meet Your Ballerina

  • Crafts and hand puppet theater

  • Furry friends and crafts with local Animal Refuge League

  • Book Nook courtesy of your local bookstore

  • Ice Skating

  • Hot Chocolate Bar + Gingerbread Cookies

  • Cocktails + Full Bar + Food

“One of the finest things about [Emily’s Productions]... is the movement from classical music as a spectator sport to a fully participatory activity for musicians, singers and the audience.”
— Gina Hamilton, Wiscasset Newspaper

Nutcracker Dance-Along is part of the

Experiential Music Design Series

How do you engage an audience? Led by conductor Emily Isaacson, Experiential Music Design projects transform the concert experience and attract new audiences through immersive, multimedia music events. These accessible performances offer classical music for kids and first-time attendees in approachable and dynamic ways. 

The performing arts are operating on societal conventions created 125 years ago: put your life on pause for three hours, sit quietly, know the etiquette (don’t you dare clap between movements!) to worship a bunch of dead white guys (I mean that lovingly) in the cathedral of a symphony hall. This format does not fit the 21st century, but the music is still powerful and speaks to audiences if you let it. 

How can we maintain the artistic integrity and emotional authenticity at the center of great performances while bringing it to new places and including more people in the conversation? 

Experiential Music Design creates immersive and interactive programs that engage the community and attract intergenerational audiences. These Experiences are in alternative performance venues, often outdoors with minimal fixed seating, making them the perfect concert as orchestras and performing arts organizations navigate returning to the concert hall. 

Don’t just listen to great music, Experience art

 

Impact of Experiential Music Design

  • Build new audiences through experiences that connect with people currently untapped in the market: under 45, families, those who attend other cultural events but not music.

  • Increase Ticket Sales by creating intergenerational experiences that not only accommodate life’s professional and personal demands but celebrate them.

  • Attract new donors by becoming the talk of the town and generating earned media.

  • Reenergize current sponsors by doing meaningful, cutting-edge work that both benefits the local community and is part of a national movement.

  • Become a thought-leader in a national movement in the arts.