A FAIRYTALE REBORN ON THE SOUTH SIDE Wheeldon's Chicago-set Nutcracker still casts a decade-long spell Ten years in, Pyotr Tchaikovsky and the World's Columbian Exposition are still a match made in ballet heaven. It's December 24, 1892, in Jackson Park, a working-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. A young girl (Amanda Assucena), accompanied by her… The post Dance Review: CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON'S NUTCRACKER (…
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