Northern Ballet plans to use recorded music. What next, robot dancers?

Dancers from the Northern Ballet perform during the final dress rehearsal of The Nutcracker at the Grand Theatre in Leeds on 28 November. Photograph: Lee Smith/Reuters

Great that you featured Northern Ballet’s Nutcracker as a double-page photo spread in your print edition, mentioning that Tchaikovsky’s music is still “played live” (Eyewitness, 30 November). What a pity you didn’t mention that Northern Ballet plans to use recorded music in future and that it has already had its soon-to-be-redundant Sinfonia making the necessary recordings. For the musicians this is akin to signing their own death warrant. Are the dancers now to be automatons too? To protest against this cultural vandalism visit www.megaphone.org.uk/p/KeepNorthernBalletLive
Tim Atkinson
Norwich

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