South African ballet sets 'Nutcracker' in the Kalahari Desert It's danced to Tchaikovsky's famous score, but it's not your traditional Christmas Nutcracker: the Joburg ballet sets it in the Kalahari desert, with rock paintings and ostriches, and Clara is not lead by the Sugar Plum Fairy but by a sangoma or traditional healer. "The Nutcracker re-imagined" is running from September 19th until the 27th at the Joburg Theatre. A natural sound version of an AFPTV report.