From the Chinese scene in Nutcracker to the Moor in Petrushka, are some ballets now offensively outdated? We ask big names in dance if they should be preserved, changed " or binned It's Christmas 1990 and I'm a ballet dancer in an Aladdin panto at Newcastle's Tyne theatre. For a Chinese number, we wear conical hats and ragged trousers, and hop from one leg to the other, grinning, our elbows bent and index fingers sha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM on November 20, 2019