Win a Pair of Tickets to Sarasota Ballet's Victorian Winters Program

Danielle Brown and Jamie Carter in Ashton's Les Patineurs . Photo by Frank Atura, Courtesy Sarasota Ballet.

Enter now to win a pair of tickets to Sarasota Ballet's Victorian Winters program, featuring Sir Frederick Ashton's Les Patineurs and Enigma Variations and Georgia Balanchine's Diamonds on December 14 at 7:30 pm at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Sarasota, FL.

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