Article: Getting Cuban dancer took complex choreography; If you go What: The Milwaukee Ballet presents Petipa's "Diana and Actaeon" pas de deux, with Susan Clark and Rolando Yanes, and Bruce Wells' "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Where: The Marcus Center's Uihlein Hall, 929 N. Water St. When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 1:30 and 7 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets: $11-$60 at the Marcus box office, 273-7206.

Last December, Beth Domino dropped by the Milwaukee Ballet studios and asked artistic director Basil Thompson for an audition.

Thompson liked Domino's work well enough, but had no job for her, and sent her on her way. That sort of thing happens all the time.

On the way out, Domino asked Thompson if she could leave a videotape of her dancer boyfriend. Thompson tossed it on the pile of unviewed audition tapes in his office. Thus was set in motion a chain of events that involved the U.S. State Department, a U.S. senator, and some nervous moments for the company but a chain that ultimately brought the company its newest principal dancer, Rolando Yanes. Yanes makes his Milwaukee Ballet ...

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