Nutcracker

Virginia girl, 7, returns to the stage for ‘Nutcracker’ dance after nearly losing her feet in accident

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Virginia girl, 7, returns to the stage for ‘Nutcracker’ dance after nearly losing her feet in accident

A 7-year-old ballerina in Virginia is making huge leaps of progress after nearly losing her feet in a freak accident, according to the Carilion Clinic in Roanoke.  After spending the past several months in the hospital, Aubrey Scaletta, 7, was able to do the unthinkable and dance in ‘The Nutcracker’ after nearly losing both her feet … Read more

How ‘The Nutcracker’ Has Been Reimagined, for Better and Worse

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How ‘The Nutcracker’ Has Been Reimagined, for Better and Worse

“The Nutcracker” is a cherished Holiday staple — one that, for every traditional treatment, inspires a left-field twist toward the contemporary. There’s a grain of truth in Lisa Simpson’s comment that everybody does “The Nutcracker” “because you don’t have to pay for the music rights.” As the critic Roslyn Sulcas once wrote in The New … Read more