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Child from 'ballet family' joins 'Nutcracker' cast despite her disability

Dec 21, 2008

Child from 'ballet family' joins 'Nutcracker' cast despite her disability http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/dec/21/child-from-ballet-family-joins-nutcracker-cast/
(The Washington Post).

"When the Joffrey Ballet's 'The Nutcracker' opened at the Kennedy Center, Mary Cassell and other young local ballet students became children attending an elaborate Victorian-era Christmas party. Unlike the other dancers, Mary's leather slippers didn't touch the floor. Mary, 8, who has cerebral palsy, sat in a small, old-fashioned wheelchair, wearing leg braces beneath her costume."

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