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[Mme. Hermine]

Hijinks at the Pennsylvania Ballet's Nutcracker:

http://www.philly.co.../136500698.html

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Mother Ginger proved a quick wit. When a cell phone went off in the hall, she pantomimed to the offending audience member by stretching her pinky and thumb to her lips and ear, mouthing the words "call me."

[Mme. Hermine]

A look at the year in dance in Clevelandby Donald Rosenberg in The Plain Dealer.

Eifman Ballet: Classical ballet doesn't make many appearances in downtown Cleveland these days. So it was startling to encounter the charismatic artistry of the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg, Russia, in May in artistic director Boris Eifman's grandiose full-length work, "Don Quixote, or Fantasies of a Madman." The production, set in an insane asylum, put a bizarre spin on Cervantes' beloved tale, but the dancing was so disciplined and animated that the company easily won over a ballet-deprived public.