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The Nutcracker remains an entrancing tradition
by (John Kissane)
Submitted 12-16-2019 under OPINION
Over time, traditions can start to feel eternal. It happened with The Nutcracker: today the play is no less associated with Christmas than the Bethlehem Star, but that wasn't always the case. The ballet, which based its story on "The...
Firebird Soars
by (John Kissane)
Submitted 10-19-2019 under OPINION
If ballet is the art of translating music into movement, the first piece in Grand Rapid Ballet's powerful Firebird was pure ballet. TItled Mozart Symphony, it translated lively, elegantly wrought music into graceful motion,...