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• St. Paul Ballet dreams up a 'Nutcracker'-inspired show - Minneapolis Star Tribune

  18-12-2015 20:47
  Minneapolis Star Tribune
  St. Paul Ballet dreams up a 'Nutcracker'-inspired show
  Minneapolis Star Tribune
  REVIEW: "Clara's Dream" reimagines the holiday favorite in a ballet that still hews to the tradition. By SHEILA REGAN Special to the Star Tribune. December 18, 2015 — 2:54pm. itemprop. Feed Loader A scene from the St. Paul Ballet's "Clara's Dream.".
  The San Diego Ballet presents 'The Nutcracker'CBS 8 San Diego
  American Nutcracker Ballet, Greater Lansing Ballet Company's twist on a ...W
  

• 'Bolshoi Babylon' Explores a Secretive Ballet Troupe - New York Times

  18-12-2015 16:42
  Sioux City Journal
  'Bolshoi Babylon' Explores a Secretive Ballet Troupe
  New York Times
  Nearly three years ago, a real-life horror story struck the Bolshoi Ballet: Sergei Filin, the artistic director of the Bolshoi, was attacked with acid by a masked man outside his home. Pavel V. Dmitrichenko, a Bolshoi soloist, was eventually arrested ...
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• Unqualified ballet teachers can 'damage' children - BBC News

  18-12-2015 14:08
  BBC News
  Unqualified ballet teachers can 'damage' children
  BBC News
  Unqualified ballet teachers can cause children "untold physical damage" the Royal Academy of Dance has warned. "Unqualified teachers lack important training in anatomy and physiology," said RAD chief executive, Luke Rittner. Encouraging children too ...
  Ballet putting girls' health under threatTelegraph.co.uk
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• Behind the scenes at the Nutcracker – in pictures

  18-12-2015 13:44
  
  Dancers, costume makers, set designers and musicians have worked for hundreds of hours to prepare for a run of the Nutcracker. Photographer Grigory Dukor went behind the scenes at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia, for Nacho Duato’s production of the Christmas classic Continue reading...
  
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• Sylvie Guillem: 'I don't want to think about my last show – I just want to live it'

  18-12-2015 13:00
  
  She was Rudolf Nureyev’s greatest protege and he nurtured her to stardom. Now, after four decades, Guillem is to retire. She talks about her fights, faults and fearsOn 30 December, at 4pm in Japan, Sylvie Guillem will dance in public for the last time. Whatever the new year holds, the life she lives will change utterly. There will be no more early mornings in over-heated dance studios, no more late nights on stage. Gone will be the aching limbs, the ice baths, the bouquets and the rapturou
  
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• Chris Wiegand's top 10 stage shows of 2015

  18-12-2015 08:00
  
  Unruly choirgirls, an unhinged Kirsty Young and Kinshasa’s rebellious Sapeurs feature in our Stage editor’s favourite shows of the year• More on the best culture of 2015Lee Hall made a wild and wistful play-cum-gig from Alan Warner’s novel The Sopranos, about a gang of small-town Catholic schoolgirls on the lash in Edinburgh before a choir competition. The result was miraculous on many levels. Music arranger Martin Lowe offered a collision of sacred choral pieces with an e
  
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