Washington DC’s Kennedy Center says it runs one of the best dance series in the country. “But over the past several years the ballet program has sunk to an alarming depth. The number of subscribers plummeted more than 40 percent between the ’91-92 season and last year.” Despite highlights such as Moscow’s Bolshoi, audiences have had to suffer through “Dracula,” a commercially driven hit that gets high marks for boredom, and “Nutcracker on Ice,” “an effort by a troupe of lower-tier Russian skaters that probably cost the center about 89 bucks and looked it.” – Washington Post