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Ballet Memphis releases a filmed version of its Nutcracker.

Orlando Ballet presents its Nutcracker live with limited seating.

James Whiteside presents an online benefit, "Fancy Nut Mix."

How Atlanta Ballet is preparing this year's Nutcracker.

A Houston Ballet program raises $75,000.

Chloé Lopes Gomes, a former member of Staatsballett Berlin, says that she was asked to wear whitening makeup during her time at the company.

Saint Louis Ballet presents its Nutcracker online.

A local television news interview with Graham Lustig.

Ballet Arizona presents an abridged Nutcracker online.

State Street Ballet presents "Evenings" online.

Backstage photo gallery of the Royal Ballet's Nutcracker.

Dancers and staffers of American Ballet Theatre create a digital cookbook.

A Royal Ballet Nutcracker photo gallery. Review of the production by Mark Monahan in The Daily Telegraph.

A review of the Royal Danish Ballet by Jann Parry for DanceTabs.

A story on the claims of former Staatsballett Berlin dancer Chloé Lopes Gomes by Roslyn Sulcas in The New York Times.

An obituary for Sara Leland by Roslyn Sulcas in The New York Times.

Hilary and Jackie is an interesting case, because although it hits many of the tragic artist marks, it also contrasts the "healthy," smaller-scale musical lives of Hilary and Christopher Finzi, who lead an ordinary family life in the country while still performing and teaching, versus the international superstardom of Jacqueline and Barenboim, and the latter doesn't come off so well -- at least in this telling. Thank you, Hushenfazen, for starting the topic. I hadn't heard of this series and I intend to check it out.

I'd suggest that Black Swan isn't a ballet film - it's a horror story that happens to take place in a ballet company, but it could be set in almost any intensely hypercompetitive professional environment and its most obvious cinematic antecedents aren't ballet movies but Polanski's Apartment Trilogy and All That Jazz. The Red Shoes is certainly melodramatic but it was based on a real-life melodrama, that of Diaghilev and Nijinsky, and Nijinsky's descent into madness is at least as horrifying as the suicide of Victoria Page. (The Nijinsky story was re-enacted again, this time for real, in the Sixties with Balanchine and Farrell, albeit with a much happier personal and artistic ending. (Balanchine after seeing Bejart's Nijinsky: Clown of God ("If I'd done the ballet, I'd have made Suzanne Nijinsky.") I wasn't crazy about The Company (starring Neve Campbell, whose idea it was, and directed by Altman) but it actually does dramatize many of the quotidian concerns and aspects of company life with little exaggeration or bombast. A TV series or miniseries could possibly take the idea and improve on it.

"Lust, Caution" is currently showing on Netflix, but I think only for the month of December. To date it hasn't shown up often for free on the cable or streaming services. It may go away for a long time again, or perhaps it will go into circulation from one streaming service to another as seems to happen with some titles.

M ississippi Metropolitan Ballet presents its Nutcracker.

Ballet Tucson will "pop up" around town this month.

Oregon Ballet Theatre presents a retooled season combining live and digital performances.

Nevada Ballet Theatre faces financial challenges without its Nutcracker.

The Goh Ballet presents a Nutcracker on film.

An NPR story on the Dance Theatre of Harlem video, "Dancing Through Harlem."