Giant tap-dancing noses!!

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BOOGIE DOWN: Enjoy the tap-dancing stylings of these GIANT NOSES!!!

That video is from a 2016 production of Dmitry Shostakovich‘s The Nose but the opera itself is much older, first debuting in 1929:

Shostakovich was only 20 when he began writing The Nose, his operatic debut. He turned to a tiny short story by Gogol: an absurdist satire, where a civil servant’s errant nose launches its owner on a ludicrous battle against both nose and the authorities, as bureaucratic processes break down in the face of so unusual a problem. Gogol’s surrealist fable fired Shostakovich’s imagination, and he responded with a work of exuberant energy, full of musical jokes and grotesque parody…

via Neatorama, TKSST