You may think the ballet world is a gentle, loving place, full of peace and joy, but no, you are wrong, quite wrong. Over in New York City, full-volume ballet wars have broken out over a review by Alastair Macaulay, the New York Times dance critic (and the former theatre critic of the Financial Times). In his piece on the New York City Ballet's Nutcracker, he wrote: "Jenifer Ringer, as the Sugar Plum Fairy, looked as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PM on December 7, 2010