VANCOUVER—Ballet Victoria has cut ties with a choreographer after renewed media attention to allegations that he took nude photographs of underage dancers in the 1980s and 1990s. Bruce Monk was fired by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in 2015 after Maclean’s reported that several women were co-operating with a Winnipeg police investigation into photos he took of them as teenage dancers. On Wednesday, Ballet Victoria issued a statement saying Monk would no longer work with the company. “Ballet Victoria cares for the physical and emotional health of all artists, staff and volunteers with great care and diligence,” it says. “It’s unfortunate that it took public pressure for Ballet Victoria to finally do the right thing,” said Doucet.

Source: thestar November 02, 2017 01:52 UTC