"Ulla Ames and 'The Nutcracker'" by Carrie Emmons

This article is from the November 2011 issue of KC Stage

Ulla-Maija Halonen was born in 1942 in Viborg, Finland (now a part of Russia), and grew up in Turku, Finland. As a child, she took ballet and that's where she discovered one of her life's passions. As she grew older, she trained and danced with the Finnish Opera Ballet in Finland.

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