Light splashes the vinyl floor of a ballet studio. Silhouettes of tree branches flicker in striated patterns as bodies pirouette, sway and plié atop the light and shadow in abstraction. The dancers’ faces are obscured as the movements of their legs and ...

The dancers had rehearsed for months. On the eve of their premiere performance, they worked nearly twelve hours, dancing on into the night. In the basement of their three-story studio, a tailor and six seamstresses attacked a stack of white tutus: the ...

For once the snowflakes were bigger and falling faster outside the DECC's Symphony Hall than they were during the enchanting Central Park scene in the Minnesota Ballet's production of "The Nutcracker" on Friday night. Otherwise the festive crowd eagerly ...