Our run of Nutcracker is over and Christmas is tomorrow(!).  Some links from around the interwebs, enjoyed with a side of eggnog…

NYCB corps de ballet dancer Devin Alberda’s backstage Nuctacker photo journal on NY Magazine’s Instagram account is so lovely. (his personal account is also one of my favorites)

Because the same day Misty Copeland made history, Stella Abrera did too. (YES)

I have mixed feelings on Flesh & Bone, but love this manifesto from the show’s leading lady, Dresden Semperoper Ballet dancer Sarah Hay. (3 cheers for diversity)

“An inconvenience rightly looked upon becomes an adventure.” (89-year-old in rehabilitation proves that age-old expression, once a dancer, always a dancer.

“To talk about a process is nowhere near as helpful as watching someone perform it.” (ex-dancer and co-founder of the Trey McIntyre Project, John Michael Schert, brings artistic process to the business world– interesting.)

Portrait of a dancer. (Sarah Lamb x Virginia Woolf x Wayne McGregor)