Westside Ballet director Yvonne Mounsey is featured in a Dec. 2 story in the Calendar section of the Los Angeles Times. “Yvonne Mounsey leads Westside Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker‘” opens at a rehearsal of the Act I party scene. In the course of the story, Yvonne explains why performance opportunities are so important for young dancers: “When you’re on stage, it’s do or die, no more messing up.”