Tag: 12.18.01

Seems there’s an English dancers’ union rule that says dancers don’t have to perform if the temperature in a theatre is below 19 degrees centigrade. Saturday the theatre in Liverpool was packed with kids for an afternoon performance by the English National Ballet, when, just a few minutes before the curtain was due to go up, dancers canceled the performance. Why? The temperature backstage was 18 degrees. Liverpool Daily Post 12/18/01

“Alberta Ballet is not dancing around the issue of its first deficit in more than a decade. It has appointed Larry Clausen, a Calgary businessman with a penchant for restoring the health of financially troubled companies, as its new board chair.” Calgary Herald 12/18/01