A Nutcracker slide-show from the New York Times dance section, along with The Nutcracker Chronicles (just as it sounds, but often funny). Remember this free coloring book from the New York City Ballet & pass it along. We're rushing - can you tell? We await massive rains & high winds here in Washington, DC. Giulia is her usual sanguine self, listening to holiday music. (Really.) She'll share her celebrated-amongst-family-&-friends annual cheesy Christmas music mix next week.
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(Brian Malek and Yoko Callegari of the Washington Ballet as John Paul Jones and Miss Liberty. Credit: Carol Pratt)
Cade Martin's justly celebrated photographs of The Washington Ballet have been published in a book, Wonderland. (You can order it on the Washington Ballet website. While you're there, take a refresher course in Ballet 101 (or pass it on to someone who feels intimidated by ballet).