NBC Washington

Group Works to Remove Asian Stereotypes From Ballet

In recent years, some Asian-American dancers have noticed certain ballets portrayed Asians in problematic ways, such as performers wearing face-lightening makeup, known as yellow-face. But now, AAPI ...
Star Tribune

Twin Cities ballet companies crack open stereotypes in 'Nutcracker'

The movement to end "yellowface" in productions of "The Nutcracker" has started to gain momentum in the Twin Cities, and ballet companies are reworking the classic holiday piece without racial ...
Hartford Courant

Ballet Theatre Company makes ‘The Nutcracker’ about candy, not cultural stereotypes

West Hartford’s Ballet Theatre Company takes its sugar plums seriously. It has turned its annual “Nutcracker” into a candy land. In doing so, it is also removing some of the visual elements of the ...
Juneau Empire

‘Nutcracker’ tradition, with a twirl of new choreography

Zachary Hench, artistic director of Juneau Dance Theatre, may have been too young to remember the first time he was on stage for a performance of “The Nutcracker,” but he knows the story well. His ...
OPB

‘Nutcracker’ performance in Vancouver challenges original’s cultural stereotypes

Courtesy Troy Wayrynen Becky Moore, the director of the dance school Columbia Dance in Vancouver, Washington, loves Tchaikovsky’s classic holiday ballet “The Nutcracker” but she worries it hasn’t aged ...