LONDON (Reuters) - Director and dancer Carlos Acosta admits he once hated ballet as he launches the London run of his new Cuban-inspired version of Tchaikovsky's festive ballet "The Nutcracker".

Carlos Acosta: ‘The point about ballet is to be ... He named this career for me and forced me to be a ballet dancer and I’m thankful to him that I’m here. My father passed away two months ...

The Land of Sweets becomes a mid-century modern nightclub. Acosta’s choreography weaves in different dance styles and references. The dancing dolls of the party scene include a soldier ...

Only last year, at the pop-up Tuff Nutt Jazz Club at the Southbank Centre, dance ... Acosta’s Nutcracker in Havana – which by the way opens in London just one day before English National ...

LONDON — Director and dancer Carlos Acosta admits that he at one time hated ballet as he launches the London run of his new Cuban-inspired version of Tchaikovsky's festive ballet "The Nutcracker.

LONDON: Director and dancer Carlos Acosta admits he once hated ballet as he launches the London run of his new Cuban-inspired version of Tchaikovsky’s festive ballet ‘The Nutcracker’.

LONDON (Reuters) - Director and dancer Carlos Acosta admits he once hated ballet as he launches the London run of his new Cuban-inspired version of Tchaikovsky's festive ballet "The Nutcracker".