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Misty Copeland Joins Disney’s ‘Nutcracker’ Film
Source: NYT
Misty Copeland is joining Disney’s live-action “Nutcracker” film. Ms. Copeland, a principal dancer at American Ballet Theater, announced her involvement with the project on Instagram.
Ms. Copeland will play what a Disney spokeswoman called the lead ballerina role in the film, “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms.” Lasse Hallstrom will direct; Ashleigh Powell wrote the script, adapted from the 1816 E. T. A. Hoffmann short story “Nussknacker und Mausekönig” (“Nutcracker and Mouse King”).
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/arts/dance/misty-copeland-joins-disneys-nutcracker-film.html
