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Julia Rhoads in Lucky Plush Productions'
"Punk Yankee"
Photo © Karen Wade
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| Magazine Highlights (Nutcrackers, DVDs & Best of 2009) |
 Beyond The Sugar Plum Fairy -- Comparing Three Productions: NYCB, Washington, Grand Rapids
by Heather Desaulniers
The holiday season is full of combinations: Santa and reindeer, tinsel and ornaments, and an excess of food and wine. Children and “The Nutcracker” are yet another inseparable mixture.
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 Prima Ballerina: Two Film Portraits, a Film by Laurent Gentot
by Catherine Pawlick
The world’s vast treasure chest of ballet films, still considered miniscule by many staunch balletomanes, now boasts one more gem in its collection. Laurent Gentot’s “Prima Ballerina: Two Film Portraits” provides sketches of two leading ladies from the richest traditions in classical Russian ballet: Uliana Lopatkina and Svetlana Zakharova, representing Russia’s Mariinsky and Bolshoi theatres, respectively.
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Festival Ballet Theatre
by Kathy Lee Scott -- December 12, 2009, Irvine Barclay Theatre, Irvine, California
 [new] The National Ballet of Canada
by Kate Snedeker -- 12 December 2009 matinee, Four Seasons Centre, Toronto, Canada
Though signs of the recent snowstorm were far and few between in downtown Toronto, the flakes flew on the stage of the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.
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New York City Ballet - Nutcracker
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Peoria Ballet
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