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Kansas City Ballet cancels the show intended to replace the company's Nutcracker.

A list of Nutcrackers available by streaming.

I am only now getting around to this book and I'm enjoying it. The flashback structure can be confusing at times and every once in awhile a literary allusion is strained, but altogether a wonderful snapshot of the company and Balanchine in that time and place. So sorry that we lost Milberg Fisher earlier this year. A remembrance by Mindy Aloff (who also writes on Sally Banes and Russell Lee).

A profile of Andrès Trezevant of the Charlotte Ballet.

Texas Ballet Theater will present its Nutcracker online.

One of the two indoor theaters at Jacob's Pillow is destroyed by fire. (Thanks to Amy Reusch for sending in the link!)

It's nice to have you, Eduardo. Welcome!

Thank you for posting your comments. I too got tired of looking at the choreography through foliage. I liked Bracewell.

This, is great, Traveling Ballerina. I will watch it if I can. It would not surprise me if the piece is disappointing as ballet. Kelly wasn't trained as one and his body wasn't ideal for it. (He did study under Berenice Holmes in the 30s, who was Adolph Bolm's Polyhymnia.) Kelly himself wasn't satisfied with it; he thought the pas de deux was fine but wasn't happy with his work for the ensemble. From your article: Kelly was an enthusiastic proselytizer for dance and ballet as well as a performer, so his influence went beyond his work as a perfomer, choreographer, and director. As you write, he loved France and it's nice to know the sentiment was mutual.

Ballet Northwest will film this year's Nutcracker.

A review of New York City Ballet's digital fall season by Ivy Lin for Bachtrack.

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

A review of Birmingham Royal Ballet by Jann Parry for DanceTabs.

An interview with Misty Copeland.

Singapore Dance Theatre cancels its Nutcracker.

A review of Fall for Dance's second program by Marianne Adams for danceviewtimes.

Vicki McLean, the AD of Lone Star Ballet, is retiring.

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet copes with COVID-19.

Houston Ballet uses a parking lot to host drive-in dance events.

Photo gallery of rehearsals of Wayne Center Ballet's Nutcracker.

Photographer Brad Walls shoots of dancer Montana Rubin from very high up.

An interview with Li Cunxin.

An article on the influence of White Russian emigres on the Chinese dance scene by Paul French for The South China Morning Post magazine.

San Francisco Ballet will stay digital in 2021.

Caitlyn Mendocino of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre talks about her beekeeping.