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Suite for the Sweets

Babs Case, Dancers’ Workshop’s longtime artistic director, is “a true believer that the world doesn’t need another ‘Nutcracker.’” Each year the New York City Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and just about every other major and minor ballet company dance to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovski’s 1892 symphonic imagining of E.T.A. Hoffman’s fantastical fairy tale. And yet, Case said, Dancers’ Workshop has stuck by the holiday staple, even in the face of extraordinary limitations and restrictions. She and her colleagues believe they can bring something new to the century-old tradition, using their “speciality of creating unique and original renditions of classic tales,” Case said.

Scene Briefs Dec 16

Lessons from the bears Through her research and professional career, Sarah Elmeligi has come to appreciate bears in a new light, seeing them as more than just data points and graphs or newspaper articles. Partnering with photographer John E. Marriott, she showcases amazing photos of bear behavior to complement the text of her book, “What Bears Teach Us,” to describe what she has learned from the endlessly charismatic creatures over her two decades of conservation work. The National Museum of Wildlife Art and the Yellowstone to Yukon conservation initiative host Elmeligi for a webinar in which she will share excerpts from her book, personal stories from the field, current science about bear behavior and coexistence starting at 5 p.m. Wednesday.

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