"Stella Abrera—glamorous and expansive—proving how ready she’s been to move into the top ranks." From Robert Gottlieb's Year in Dance in the Observer. When is McKenzie going to wake up and smell the talent?

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Joseph Phillips is dancing Prince Siegfried in the Australian Conservatoire of Ballet production of Swan Lake in Melbourne. Boy, he must really miss prancing around in a rat costume in ABT's Nutcracker.

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Lots of debuts in NYCB's Nutcracker coming up. Next Sunday at 5pm, Ashley Laracey debuts as Sugarplum, Russell Janzen dances the Cavalier for the first time, and Brittany Pollack gets her first crack at Dewdrop.