Can Ardern save the ballet?

Stuff reports:

The embattled Royal New Zealand Ballet will be asked to meet with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in the new year as dancers continue to exit, stage left. 

Ardern, who holds the ministerial responsibility for Arts, Culture and Heritage, said she had become concerned about the lack of New Zealand dancers in the national ballet company and fewer local shows for New Zealand’s regions. 

The biennial Tutus on Tour used to bring top quality ballet shows to almost 50 regional towns in New Zealand. But in 2018, Tutus will tour only seven regional towns – which ballet lovers say will create problems at the grassroots of ballet. 

This sounds like an absolute crisis. I’m glad the Prime Minister is personally intervening to solve this. It’s the height of inequality to have 43 fewer towns miss out on the ballet.