Leeds united: Northern Ballet plot knees-up for 50th anniversary
Drew McOnie's Merlin and Kenneth Tindall's Geisha will mark the company's remarkable half century, alongside digital archive 'Years ago, when I danced, you did what you were told," says Northern Ballet's artistic director, David Nixon. "If you had an idea, they didn't want to know about it." In his office at the company's Leeds HQ, the Canadian-born choreographer and former principal is reflecting on how ballet is sh…