PRESS 2017

“Under City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ Tree, Dancers Find New Roles,” - The New York Times December 26, 2017

Connoisseurs of the Balanchine “Nutcracker” should notice a couple of changes that have been made this season. The most discussed has been to reduce the element of racial caricature in Chinese Tea: The male dancer now wears a modified hat and makeup, and neither points his index fingers upward or does rapid little runs. How to represent national or ethnic types within the framework of Tchaikovsky’s score? This is a challenge I hope the company will continue to consider.