Tony Hawk skates his way into 'Nutcracker' for San Diego show: 'You just have to say yes'

Tony Hawk, the skateboarding fable synonymous with daring tricks and modern skate culture, implicit the play faced an acquisition “WAY outside” his comfortableness zone: performing successful a ballet.

The San Diego autochthonal and “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater” namesake, 57, made his ballet debut Saturday skating connected signifier for Golden State Ballet’s accumulation of “The Nutcracker.” During the one-of-a-kind showing astatine San Diego’s Civic Theatre, Hawk appeared successful aggregate scenes of the beloved vacation ballet, entertaining audiences with tricks portion successful costume.

“Sometimes you conscionable person to accidental yes to things WAY extracurricular your comfortableness zone, particularly erstwhile your girl thinks [it’s] funny,” helium wrote Sunday successful an Instagram post.

Golden State Ballet teased Hawk’s “Nutcracker” cameo connected societal media earlier this month, announcing, “he’s trying thing wholly new.”

“He’s supporting San Diego arts,” the archetypal station read. “He’s making his girl proud.”

“The Nutcracker” is simply a two-act ballet that follows a miss named Clara who receives a nutcracker doll for Christmas. When the artifact magically comes to life, helium defends Clara from the Mouse King and takes her connected the travel of her dreams done the colorful onshore of sweets, wherever the Sugar Plum Fairy rules.

So however precisely does a pro skater acceptable in?

Hawk posted respective photos and videos from his performance, including footage of his archetypal cameo during the ballet’s opening number. The sports icon, donning a scarf and newsboy hat, disrupts the snowy country extracurricular of Clara’s home. He skates crossed the signifier balancing connected his committee with some hands successful the aerial arsenic a constabulary serviceman runs aft him.

In the ballet’s 2nd act, Hawk was not the lone skater to instrumentality the stage. During the crowd-pleaser trepak, oregon Russian dance, Hawk and young skater Katelyn West joined a trio of dancers, launching themselves into the aerial disconnected a 4th pipe. Like the dancers, some Hawk and West wore Russian-inspired fur hats, tunics and baggy reddish pants. The assemblage erupted successful raucous applause.

Finally, Hawk and West rolled connected signifier for the show’s curtain call. Not excessively shabby, skater boy.