'The Nutcracker's Stranglehold Is All But Squeezing Ballet Dry'
Sarah Kaufman says that, because U.S. companies are so utterly dependent on income from their annual Nutcracker runs, ballet in this country "suffers from a serious lack of confidence that is only growing more and more paralyzing. … Has ballet become so entwined with its Nutcracker image, so fearfully wedded to unthreatening offerings, that it has forgotten how eye-opening and ultimately nourishing creative destruction can be?" Washington Post 11/20/09

Posted November 22, 2009 10:33 AM