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• Northern Ballet’s plan to use recorded music. What next, robot dancers? | Letter

  04-12-2023 19:28
  
  Tim Atkinson on the threat to the livelihoods of the Northern Ballet Sinfonia’s musiciansGreat that you featured Northern Ballet’s Nutcracker as a double-page photo spread in your print edition, mentioning that Tchaikovsky’s music is still “played live” (Eyewitness, 30 November). What a pity you didn’t mention that Northern Ballet plans to use recorded music in future and that it has already had its soon-to-be-redundant Sinfonia making the necessary recordings
  
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• Marion Cito, ingenious costume designer to Pina Bausch, dies aged 85

  04-12-2023 16:59
  
  Cito, who had been a dancer herself, spent 40 years working for Tanztheater WuppertalThe costume designer Marion Cito, whose gowns, suits and occasional swimwear were integral to choreographer Pina Bausch’s dance-theatre, has died at the age of 85. Her death on Saturday was announced by the company Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.Born in Berlin in 1938, Cito began to work with Bausch in 1976 as an assistant and a dancer. She had previously been a ballerina and was a principal soloist at
  
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