September 2009

Last March, Nevada Ballet Theatre got tripped by the economy and its dire effects on fundraising. Its annual Nutcracker had ceased to be a reliable cash cow. The theater scrapped its spring program, pink-slipped 16 of its 31 salaried dancers and hired seven new ones. (The core 22 will be supplemented with four unpaid trainees.)By [...]

Michael Fuller is smiling. For a man in the business of other people’s pleasure, he doesn’t do it much. But once he cues Empire of the Sun’s “Walking on a Dream” on his home computer’s iTunes player and his guest immediately recognizes the song, his face lights up. The subtle, MGMT-esque indie/dance track isn’t a [...]