Blackface and Fu Manchu moustaches: does ballet have a race problem?
From the Chinese scene in Nutcracker to the Moor in Petrushka, are some ballets now offensively outdated? We ask big names in dance if they should be preserved, changed " or binned It's Christmas 1990 and I'm a ballet dancer in an Aladdin panto at Newcastle's Tyne theatre. For a Chinese number, we wear conical hats and ragged trousers, and hop from one leg to the other, grinning, our elbows bent and index fingers sha…