& other highlights from the year in Bay Area dance

San Francisco Ballet's 'Nutcracker' enthralls

Gay dance-artists take top honors

'The Hula Show 2008' offers fabulous dance

Mark Morris' 'Romeo & Juliet' in Berkeley

Highlights in fall Bay Area dance events

Lines Contemporary Ballet at Stern Grove

Sean Dorsey's 'Fresh Meat Festival'

'Thirty Seven Isolated Events' at CounterPULSE

Dandelion & Axis dance companies at Yerba Buena Center

Miguel Gutierrez in a political dance festival at Theater
Artaud

10 choreographers given full freedom in SF Ballet's New Works
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