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. He is currently facing two lawsuits, one filed by a woman in Winnipeg alleging he took nude photos of her when she was 16 and a proposed class-action lawsuit filed in Toronto. “Ballet Victoria cares for the physical and emotional health of all artists, staff and volunteers with great care and diligence,” it says in a statement. “To (ensure) the integrity of the company Bruce Monk will no longer be involved with Ballet Victoria.”

Source: National Post November 01, 2017 21:00 UTC